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Around The Horn
5 March 2024
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 Today/Tomorrow, My Sweet Elora, Lovers in a Paris Bar, Daniel Beltra, film simulations and diminishing returns.
- Today/Tomorrow is a multimedia photography project by Aishah Kenton and Sean Davey. Young adults between 18 and 30 were interviewed and photographed with expired Polaroid film, whose results are unpredictable, to capture their stories.
- Magali Duzant discusss My Sweet Elora, a photo project in which Luuk van Raamsdonk explores a family secret in old photographs and new in Belgium and Canada. "One can see the jumps between Belgium and Canada, between now and then, the known and unknown," she writes.
- Tim Adams discusses Christer Strömholm's 1960 image of Lovers in a Paris Bar. The Guardian has also published a selection of his images on exhibit at Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, until May 5.
- Heidi Volpe talks to El Pais photographer Daniel Beltra about his reporting from Ukraine. "There are so many talented photographers showing the direct and brutal impact of the war," he says. T"he project I was trying to execute was different: documenting the war's environmental impact from the air had not been done, at least not on a larger scale."
- Derrick Story has a few thoughts on using Film Simulations. "I love the looks they create, both in B&W and color," he writes. He previews them in camera but also suggests applying them in post production.
- In Diminishing Returns in Photography, Jim Kasson writes, "As time goes by, cameras of all formats get better. Yet we don't have more wall space and, cataract surgery excepted, our eyes aren't improving with time. So the perceptual differences grow smaller and smaller."
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...