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Around The Horn
26 September 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 Austria's glaciers, the Balkans, Nolan Trowe, Joe McNally, the Getty's AI generator, Derrick Story, a call for mentors and Francis Hodgson on Erwin Olaf.
- In Austria's Melting Glaciers Are in Their Final Decades, Matthias Schrader photographs the body ice it is already too late to save and talks to Andrea Fischer, a glaciologist with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, measuring its disappearance.
- Heidi Volpe interviews Nick St. Ogger about his series on The Balkans. "I was completely captivated by the mountains, rivers and welcoming people who were so eager to share their culture and history with me," he says. "It was unlike anything I had ever experienced."
- In Nolan Trowe's Wheelchair Perspective Highlights Disability Activism, Wendy Kozol examines an image taken by Nolan Trowe, who photographed a disability protest in the halls of Congress from the wheelchair he has used since a 2016 accident. "Trowe describes his compositions as foregrounding 'elbows, buttocks, feet, and hands clutching phones,' a strategy that puts us in the same space as the activists," she writes.
- In Love and Pictures, Joe McNally reflects on "these two irresistibly wonderful things intersected in the course of our lives" as photographers.
- In Getty Announces AI Image Generator, Kehl Bayern notes, "Images that are used to train the creator and generate bespoke media for customers will be compensated."
- Derrick Story swears I Don't Care How Great the iPhone Is, I'm Never Selling My Camera. He gives five reasons why. (Seems like he never used the physical buttons on the left side as a shutter button before the Action button.) He also links to his Setting Up the iPhone 15 Pro for Photographers. Don't miss his 50 Years of Billingham Bags: The Story. "There are really only two types of bag -- too big or too small, Martin Billingham observes.
- In Mentors Needed for the 2024 Photo Class, the instructors are asking for help. "Your main responsibility would be to give feedback on assignments and be encouraging while still being constructive."
- In The Day-Dreams of Melancholy Men: Erwin Olaf, Francis Hodgson (whom we haven't heard from in a long time) compares Olaf's "contemporary reflections on Vermeer" to pianist Maurizio Pollini playing late Beethoven piano sonatas, aware "that late Beethoven isn't Bach." He concludes, "As the creator of a host of pictures of great skill and beauty (not to mention wit), it may be that his larger achievement is that Erwin Olaf has never accepted that photography should be as slight or as quick or ultimately as trivial as the tendency of the time dictates."
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