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Around The Horn
7 July 2023
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Ukraine, Michael Kenna, a product photography toolkit, the V&A's Photography Centre, Stephen Starkman and making art.
- The Associated Press marks the 500-day mark in Russia's War in Ukraine with images of "some of the most crucial moments of the war."
- The Guardian shares a few of Michael Kenna's new Japanese Landscapes now on exhibit in London.
- Zach Sutton details What You Need for a Product Photography Toolkit. Not the camera gear but the little things like posing blocks and toothpicks, thread and empty bottles.
- Duncan Cook, senior lecturer photography at Cardiff Metropolitan University, reflects on the opening of the second phase of the Victoria and Albert Museum's Photography Centre. "The centre will provide not just a new home for the V&A's extensive photography collection (which dates back to the 19th century), it will also go some way to cementing the status of photography as a leading form of expression within contemporary visual culture," he writes.
- Kevin Raber reviews The Proximity of Mortality by Stephen Starkman, including a half-hour Zoom interview as well. Starkman was diagnosed with small-cell lung cancer in 2021 and decided to document what he was going through. The book is the result. "I feel inspired by his story and book and I feel blessed that I was fortunate enough to have crossed paths with such a wonderful man," Raber writes.
- In On Escaping Oneself, Andrew Molitor considers why we pursue art. "I don't want to make art to transform either myself or my life, but rather to be myself and to live my life, in as fully human a way as I can manage," he writes.
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