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Around The Horn
31 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 photos of the week, Irish Traveller children, the Nikon Z 8's price, heat, the iPhone Camera app, rubrics and Sinéad O'Connor.
- Alan Taylor presents Photos of the Week including the Fencing World Championships in Italy, a rain delay at Boston's Fenway Park, a bomb-damaged cathedral in Ukraine, wildfires across Greece, a performance at the Lollapalooza Paris Festival, the Women's World Cup in Australia and preparations for a typhoon in China.
- Jamie Johnson's black-and-white series follows the lives of Irish Traveller Children to tell a story about honesty, trust and friendships. "There's something about the honesty of kids," he says. "They don't care if they have chocolate all over their face, but they do have an opinion or thought or idea on just about everything."
- In Aggressive Nikon, Mike Johnston lets the other shoe (problem) drop: the price of the Z 8. Which is $4,000. In a comment Thom Hogan explains Nikon's strategy and how to measure the cost of an item. "Long ago I learned the difference between current value, future value and other forms of valuation," Hogan writes.
- In Too Hot to Think Straight, Kirk Tuck writes, "Sometimes I'll head over to Barton Springs Pool or someplace like that to try and kickstart a photo project only to be tormented by the heat, hampered by my sweating hands on the cameras and ready to retreat to the air conditioned spaces."
- In iPhone Camera Deception, Ric Ford discusses the "iPhone Camera app silently switching a chosen telephoto camera ('2x' or '3x') to the main/wide camera ('1x') in certain circumstances while disguising this switch by keeping the view the same on screen and in the saved image file."
- In Rubrics, Andrew Molitor defines the term as "any sort of system for measuring the goodness of a photograph." And there are a lot of them, he observes. None of them as universal as presumed.
- Sean O'Hagan presents Andrew Catlin's series of 48 intimate and unselfconscious black-and-white images of Sinéad O'Connor shot in 1988 when she was 21.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...