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Around The Horn
6 November 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 Carolyn Drake, Zoe Norfolk, Justin Bastien, keeping gear safe, Ken Narula, Thom Hogan, the M3 iMac, Ric Ford and the World Press Photo Contest.
- Rebecca Horne reviews Men Untitled, the latest photo book by Carolyn Drake. An exhibition of Men Untitled is currently showing at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris until Jan. 24, 2024.
- Zoe Norfolk won a silver award at the Association of Photographers Awards 2023 for Every Year I Take a Photo, a collection of self-portraits of her and her son William taken from his first to 21st birthdays.
- Heidi Volpe interviews Justin Bastien about his career in Adventure Photography. "What started out as a happy accident working with Patagonia years ago with my little 35mm Yashica T4 point-and-shoot camera has really turned into an adventure of a lifetime," he says.
- Tyler Glass offers a few tips to Keep Your Gear Safe During Backcountry Photography. Packing light is the first.
- Iris & Lens is a double volume published by Steidl in which Ken Narula presents five years of his street photography in the first volume and juxtaposes the images with precise portraits of the lenses he uses in the second. "I like images that look uncomplicated on the surface but cut deep into our hearts," he says. Narula is the owner of the largest collection of Leica M lenses, as well as historic and contemporary cameras.
- In Does Zeno Ever Get Where He's Going?, Thom Hogan laments that we don't talk much about what the eye can do in respect to contrast.* "Are we at a stage where combination of the resolution of the camera, the MTF of the lens, the resolution of our screens and the abilities of our eyes all are in a combined near good-as-it-gets sweet spot?" he wonders.
- Jason Snell reviews the M3 iMac, which he says involves two stories, one about the unchanged computer itself and the other about the new M3 chip. He concludes, "The Apple silicon iMac is charismatic and fun. I've immensely enjoyed working on one in my house this past week."
- Ric Ford shares some Lessons From Bad Apple Experience after getting his "expensive new MacBook Pro" repaired with used parts after it failed less than 30 days after he bought it. He points out "Apple's proprietary storage design means that a Mac failure is now also a storage failure that will prevent you from accessing any of your files in any way."
- The annual World Press Photo Contest will open for entries on Dec. 1. Entering is free and prizes include up to €6,000, inclusion in the organization's annual traveling exhibition and more. Deadline is Jan. 11, 2024.
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