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Around The Horn
28 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 Joe Greer, CAP prize, portraiture, flyaway hairs, the Maine thing, incomes, street photography, Andrew Molitor and OSXPhotos.
- Anna Dorothea Ker talks to Joe Greer about taking The Long View in photography and life. "Though his photographs are typically viewed through the glowing rectangles of his devoted Instagram followers' devices, each serves as a timely reminder that life in all its messy beauty happens outside of the screen and as a timeless call to action to get busy living it," she writes.
- Matt Fidler showcases work by the winners of the Contemporary African Photography Prize, including Nadia Ettwein, Yassmin Forte, Maheder Haileselassie, Carlos Idun-Tawiah and Léonard Pongo.
- In Personality Not Perfection, Mike Johnston describes how he makes a portrait and what matters to him. "I like natural-looking picture," he writes. But he does make his subject check their hair frequently. "It doesn't have to be perfect, just different," he explains. In case there's an unruly strand.
- And Kirk Tuck did a couple of portraits (of doctors, like Johnston) with his new medium format Fujifilm in Two Assignments Completed. "I spent some time on each person's selection doing some enhancements and correcting things like rough skin and flyaway hairs (a little-mentioned danger during a humid heat wave!)," he writes.
- Harold Davis wonders What's the Maine Thing? And tells an amusing story about traveling through Scotland as a child with the magician Raymond Dmullyan in the car. Davis off to Maine to teach and marks the occasion with some of his previous images taken in the state.
- Rob Haggart continues his series Photographers, How Much Do You Make? with four more entries.
- Jason Row covers Getting Started in Street Photography from gear to fear.
- In Photos About Themselves, Andrew Molitor observes, "Everything from Twitter to forums to MFA programs to local photo clubs of middle-aged ladies does the same thing: they all converge on some remarkably limited and uninteresting set of visual ideas and grind them into a sort of thin gruel that nobody likes."
- Rhet Turnbull's OSXPhotos is a free command line utility (with a Python API) for Apple Photos libraries that can export all metadata and preserve album structure. It also has an import feature that can recreate album structure and re-apply metadata.
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