Wedding Photographer Sues Venue for $577K After She Fell and Broke Her Knee
2 HRS AGO - A wedding photographer in Australia is suing a wedding venue and styling company for over $500,000 Expand
2 HRS AGO - A wedding photographer in Australia is suing a wedding venue and styling company for over $500,000 after she slipped on a piece of fabric and shattered her knee—an incident she says could have been avoided and has cost her hundreds of thousands in lost work. In 2017, photographer and cinematographer Bernadette Draffin was shooting a […] Collapse
What, no fatberg? Fischli Weiss explore a Swiss sewer – review
5 HRS AGO - Sprüth Magers, LondonThe duo’s video shot from a robot burrowing through the pipes beneath Zurich Expand
5 HRS AGO - Sprüth Magers, LondonThe duo’s video shot from a robot burrowing through the pipes beneath Zurich is reminiscent of birth, or a colonoscopyThe high point or, more accurately, the low point of this small exhibition of Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss at Sprüth Magers, is in the London gallery’s basement. Kanalvideo journeys through the sewers beneath the streets of Zurich, the camera mounted on a robotic vehicle that inspects the tunnels for blockages and leaks. The video is a full hour’s slow and silent burrowing along the cylindrical pipes. What turns and manoeuvrings the unseen robot has to make as it traverses junctions and turns have been edited out, so the journey appears seamless, smooth, unhurried and inexorable. Projected on the end wall of an otherwise empty room, the camera, mounted on the robot, takes us on an apparently interminable trip.Kanalvideo may lack the complexity and ingenious pyrotechnics of Fischli and Weiss’s best known, and much imitated, The Way Collapse
Manchester's much-derided Piccadilly Gardens to be revamped
7 HRS AGO - Council promises to turn magnet for anti-social behaviour into ‘family-friendly’ civic spaceAt Expand
7 HRS AGO - Council promises to turn magnet for anti-social behaviour into ‘family-friendly’ civic spaceAt 5.30pm in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens, three police officers are gathered around a wheelchair parked in front of a gold postbox commemorating Team GB’s Olympic cycling success. Sitting in the chair, bent double, is a tiny woman with one leg. “Can you sit up, love?” the officers ask, coaxing her gently upright. They know her name. “We just wanted to check you were OK.” She mumbles that she’s fine. As they head off towards the statue of Queen Victoria, the woman immediately slumps forward again.On a bench near the tram tracks, another drug casualty is frozen – a different kind of statue. He is holding a rolled-up cigarette, long extinguished in the evening drizzle. In a doorway by a branch of Greggs, three men with sleeping bags are sharing some pasties. In front of them, a preacher with a megaphone is telling commuters to repent or burn in hell. Outside Boots, two charity fundraisers Collapse
Awol Erizku’s Beyoncé Pregnant: a pop Madonna
12 HRS AGO - The singer resembles a Renaissance Virgin Mary but with a sexual edge in this Instagram Expand
12 HRS AGO - The singer resembles a Renaissance Virgin Mary but with a sexual edge in this Instagram photographArtist Awol Erizku’s 2017 portrait of Beyoncé pregnant with twins scored 10m likes when it landed on Instagram in 2017, the most an image had ever had on the platform. Continue reading... Collapse
Ickworth embraces enforced darkness to spotlight art collection
16 HRS AGO - Rotunda at National Trust property exploits gloom from scaffolding to stage exhibitionA Expand
16 HRS AGO - Rotunda at National Trust property exploits gloom from scaffolding to stage exhibitionA 200-year-old Italianate palace, hidden away in the Suffolk countryside and currently encased in more than 270 miles of scaffolding, is to hold an exhibition that is only taking place because it is undergoing £5m of conservation works.Ickworth, a Georgian estate and one of the most photographed of all National Trust properties, will on Satuday open its magnificent but leaky Rotunda to show off world class works of art and objects which few people know are even there. Continue reading... Collapse
Instagram and YouTube Star Jailed for Climbing The Great Pyramid of Giza
1 DAY AGO - Instagram influencer and YouTube personality Vitaly Zdorovetskiy claims that he spent 5 days in an Expand
1 DAY AGO - Instagram influencer and YouTube personality Vitaly Zdorovetskiy claims that he spent 5 days in an Egyptian jail and “saw horrible things” after he was caught climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza, a stunt that could have landed him in jail for a lot longer. Zdorovetski “announced” his arrest in an Instagram post to his 3.1 […] Collapse
Photographer Rescues 3 People from Car Sinking into Frozen Pond
1 DAY AGO - Bellevue, Nebraska photographer Terry Ingram is incredibly grateful that his Nikon DSLR stopped Expand
1 DAY AGO - Bellevue, Nebraska photographer Terry Ingram is incredibly grateful that his Nikon DSLR stopped working in the middle of an outing last weekend. If it hadn’t, three young men might not be alive today. Ingram shared the incredible story with the Omaha World Herald and KETV 7, explaining how a bit of photographic bad luck made […] Collapse
Conga and carnival: Havana's jazz festival – in pictures
1 DAY AGO - New Orleans and Cuban musicians join in Havana’s annual jazz festival, defying Trump’s efforts to Expand
1 DAY AGO - New Orleans and Cuban musicians join in Havana’s annual jazz festival, defying Trump’s efforts to weaken US-Cuba relations Continue reading... Collapse
Robbie Lawrence's best photograph: a woman praying in Georgia's Low Country
1 DAY AGO - ‘The chapel was built by enslaved people in 1896. The area had been a hotbed for fishing but the Expand
1 DAY AGO - ‘The chapel was built by enslaved people in 1896. The area had been a hotbed for fishing but the rivers are empty now and money is moving to the city’In October and November 2017, the American writer Sala Elise Patterson and I travelled to the Low Country in Georgia. In recent years, politics has forced people to be polarised, but we figured that there would be a lot more contradictions, even in somewhere like rural Georgia, a place that was probably leaning Republican. We set out to interview people from both sides of the political tracks, and look for continuities, and the paradoxes of everyday life.The Low Country is sprawling swamp land along the Ogeechee River, or Blackwater River as it is known. We spent months researching beforehand. One of the places we reached out to was St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in the hamlet of Burroughs. St Bartholomew’s is the last standing chapel of the Ogeechee River Mission and the oldest African American congregation in the Episcopal Diocese Collapse
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Multiple Users Reporting Major EVF Issue with the Brand New Fuji X-Pro3
4 HRS AGO - Users of Fujifilm’s brand new and much-anticipated X-Pro3 rangefinder have started reporting Expand
4 HRS AGO - Users of Fujifilm’s brand new and much-anticipated X-Pro3 rangefinder have started reporting a troubling issue with their viewfinders. A number of users have taken to both DPReview and the FujiX Forum to report that their cameras’ EVFs have “all of a sudden” started showing a wildly overexposed image and preview, making it impossible to use. […] Collapse
Painting found inside Italian gallery wall confirmed as a Gustav Klimt
7 HRS AGO - Gardener discovered Portrait of a Lady while clearing ivy at the gallery in PiacenzaArt experts Expand
7 HRS AGO - Gardener discovered Portrait of a Lady while clearing ivy at the gallery in PiacenzaArt experts have confirmed that a stolen painting discovered hidden inside an Italian art gallery’s walls is Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady.A gardener at the Ricci Oddi Modern Art gallery in the northern city of Piacenza reported finding an artwork last month while clearing ivy. Portrait of a Lady was stolen from the gallery nearly 23 years ago. Continue reading... Collapse
Leica Unveils 40MP M10 Monochrom with ‘Unrivalled’ Detail and Sharpness
8 HRS AGO - Almost 5 years after the last Leica M-Monochrom (Typ 246) was announced in 2015, Leica has ditched Expand
8 HRS AGO - Almost 5 years after the last Leica M-Monochrom (Typ 246) was announced in 2015, Leica has ditched the “Typ” number, increased the resolution, and expanded the ISO range to unveil the new M10 Monochrom: a camera that promises “an unparalleled black-and-white photography experience.” The Monochrom has always been a niche camera for a niche audience, […] Collapse
What to see this week in the UK
13 HRS AGO - From Waves to Beat Horizon, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and Expand
13 HRS AGO - From Waves to Beat Horizon, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading... Collapse
Tokina Launches New Line of Mirrorless Lenses Starting with an 85mm f/1.8 for Sony E-Mount
21 HRS AGO - After a week full of rumors and leaks, Tokina has officially unveiled their brand new Expand
21 HRS AGO - After a week full of rumors and leaks, Tokina has officially unveiled their brand new ‘atx-m’ line of mirrorless lenses, starting with an affordable 85mm f/1.8 lens for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras: the Tokina atx-m 85mm f/1.8 FE. The atx-m 85mm f/1.8 is the “debut lens” for this new lineup of mirrorless lenses, which Tokina […] Collapse
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh: Turner in January
1 DAY AGO - 1 - 31 Jan Review Henry Vaughan's bequest to the National Galleries of Scotland of J M W Turner's Expand
1 DAY AGO - 1 - 31 Jan Review Henry Vaughan's bequest to the National Galleries of Scotland of J M W Turner's exquisite watercolours bears repeated annual visits. Collapse
My life has been a struggle against the establishment': artist Rasheed Araeen
1 DAY AGO - He’s written letters to the prime minister, joined the Black Panthers and spent a lifetime on art Expand
1 DAY AGO - He’s written letters to the prime minister, joined the Black Panthers and spent a lifetime on art that can provoke, delight and be climbed on. Now, at 84, Araeen has opened a restaurant‘You won’t find anything interesting in my life. I’d rather talk about the work,” says Rasheed Araeen. It is quite the understatement. The 84-year-old Karachi-born artist is no stranger to incident. “My life in Britain has been my struggle against the establishment. It took many forms – within art, outside art, in writing, in performances, in writing letters to the prime minister,” is his own pithy summation.He first wrote to Tony Blair after “there were ugly things spoken about the Muslims” following the July 2005 bombings in London. “One of the points they kept making was that Muslims were against modernism. They were backwards, uncultured, uncivilised. I wrote and said, ‘Here is an example of what Muslims have contributed to British modernism’.” Continue reading... Collapse
Inside the odyssey: taking a closer look at Stanley Kubrick's 2001
1 DAY AGO - At an expansive new exhibition in New York, the director’s defining science fiction opus is Expand
1 DAY AGO - At an expansive new exhibition in New York, the director’s defining science fiction opus is explored in detail with help from those who made it with himThough the calendar reads 2020 we’re still waiting for the future promised in 2001. Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, created concurrently with Arthur C Clarke’s novel, is recognized as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made, endlessly scrutinized from both a story and production point of view. Both avenues are open to New Yorkers and visiting tourists from 18 January through 19 July at the Museum of the Moving Image adjacent to the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens.Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey is an in-depth examination of how the New York-born director’s desire to make “the proverbial ‘really good’ science fiction film” (as Kubrick wrote to Clarke in a letter preserved under glass in the exhibit) led to “the ultimate trip”, as MGM’s marketing department called the movie once young people seized upon Collapse
Sony Overtakes Olympus in Japanese Mirrorless Sales, Canon Still Dominates
2 DAYS AGO - BCN has revealed their awards for 2020, and the biggest news from this year’s camera stats Expand
2 DAYS AGO - BCN has revealed their awards for 2020, and the biggest news from this year’s camera stats is that Sony has overtaken Olympus to claim the #2 spot in Mirrorless category while Canon has finally, for the first time ever, claimed the #1 spot in all three stills camera categories. BCN numbers are always an interesting […] Collapse
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We cannot let this issue go': the artists taking a stand against child separation
5 HRS AGO - An ambitious new project brings together over 100 artists who have used the accounts of detained Expand
5 HRS AGO - An ambitious new project brings together over 100 artists who have used the accounts of detained migrant children to create work with an urgent purposeIn June last year, a group of volunteer lawyers, doctors, and mental health experts visited a US Customs and Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, which held migrant children separated from their families at the border. Their task was to record the accounts of the unaccompanied minors, some as young as toddlers, in government custody to assure the US was not in violation of the Flores agreement, a 1997 legal settlement that requires the federal government to provide minimum basic levels of care to detained migrants under 18. The conditions the volunteers witnessed there – children sleeping on concrete floors, toddlers in stained clothing denied access to showers, sleeping mats next to filthy open toilets, children chilled to the point of illness – so appalled them that they filed a lawsuit against the federal government, and told Collapse
A Picasso-Pollock mashup and Dalí's Hollywood haunts – the week in art
7 HRS AGO - Alex Israel enters the surrealist’s ghostly head, Art & Language put their spin on art Expand
7 HRS AGO - Alex Israel enters the surrealist’s ghostly head, Art & Language put their spin on art history, and Susan Hiller flips a coin to start her London Jukebox – all in your weekly dispatchArt & LanguageThe conceptual art pioneers merge Picasso’s Guernica with Jackson Pollock’s drips in a provocative visual “essay” on the history of modern art.• Sprovieri Gallery, London, from 17 January until 13 March. Continue reading... Collapse
Buy a Guardian classic photograph: Girls walk in the snow, Pakistan, 2006
10 HRS AGO - This week in our series of exclusive Guardian photography we have Dan Chung’s image from north Expand
10 HRS AGO - This week in our series of exclusive Guardian photography we have Dan Chung’s image from north Pakistan of young girls walking in the mountains following a devastating earthquakeThe then Guardian photographer Dan Chung visited Kuz Ganrshal, a remote village in northern Pakistan, in January 2006, three months after a devastating earthquake. He travelled with Oxfam and a local organisation, the Shangla Development Society. These young village girls – colourful against the almost monochrome backdrop – were intrigued by the visitor, following Chung along the snowy mountain path. The village people refused to move to refugee camps after the earthquake, which destroyed nearly 40% of their homes, preferring to cram together with up to five families, along with their livestock, into single dwellings. Oxfam, the only aid agency to have visited the village at the time, distributed blankets, plastic sheets, mats, hygiene kits and tents. Continue reading... Collapse
The healing power of Bauhaus at London's St Mary's hospital
14 HRS AGO - The work of Josef and Anni Albers has given a bright, bold new look to a children’s intensive care Expand
14 HRS AGO - The work of Josef and Anni Albers has given a bright, bold new look to a children’s intensive care unitThe role of art in hospitals rarely extends beyond hanging pictures on the wall. But for Josef and Anni Albers, art was always much more than that. Both pioneers of modernism, the couple met in 1922 at the Bauhaus school, an establishment with a revolutionary approach to art. Bauhaus blurred the boundaries between craft, design and fine art and championed the concept of gesamtkunstwerk: the complete work of art, typically in the form of a house.But why not a hospital department? That was the thinking of the Albers Foundation which, since the couple’s deaths late last century, has worked to continue their legacy. “Josef and Anni both believed that what we experience through our eyes can divert and elate us in unparalleled ways,” explains Nicholas Fox Weber, the foundation’s director. Taking inspiration from the Albers’ geometric patterns and confident use of colour, the foundation Collapse
Canon Wins Important Lawsuit Against eBay Users Selling Counterfeit Gear
1 DAY AGO - Canon just scored a major legal win in the battle against counterfeit products. A US District Expand
1 DAY AGO - Canon just scored a major legal win in the battle against counterfeit products. A US District Court has ruled in Canon’s favor in a lawsuit against two eBay users who were selling counterfeit Canon batteries online. It’s not often camera companies publish a whole press release to announce the results of a lawsuit, but Canon […] Collapse
Canon Working on Nifty Fifty, Pancake Lens, and 135mm f/1.4 for RF Mount: Report
1 DAY AGO - A reliable report from Canon Rumors, as well as a newly discovered patent, has revealed some of Expand
1 DAY AGO - A reliable report from Canon Rumors, as well as a newly discovered patent, has revealed some of Canon’s exciting plans for the RF Mount. Not only is a nifty fifty 50mm f/1.8 lens in the works, the company is also working on a pancake lens and has designed a 135mm f/1.4L. Canon recently made it […] Collapse
Sony introduces new shooting grip - Photography News
1 DAY AGO - The new GP-VPT2BT shooting grip with wireless remote commander could be a new favourite among Expand
1 DAY AGO - The new GP-VPT2BT shooting grip with wireless remote commander could be a new favourite among content creators of all varieties. Sony’s new shooting grip connects wirelessly to a variety of… Collapse
Nothing Has Changed: a nostalgic view of modern America – in pictures
1 DAY AGO - Photographer Larry Niehues has been capturing life in the US on 35mm film, from motels to diners Expand
1 DAY AGO - Photographer Larry Niehues has been capturing life in the US on 35mm film, from motels to diners to gas stations, to evoke the past by showing ‘all the beauty and the destruction, the tradition and the innovation, the loud cities and the quiet little spaces’. His work has been made available in the book Nothing Has Changed Continue reading... Collapse
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