Round Up of Week of Nov 25

The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

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Getty and Artist Marcus Lyon Present Alta: A Human Atlas of a City of Angels

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The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and London-based artist Marcus Lyon announced today the launch of Alta / A Human Atlas of a City of Angels, the latest cycle in Lyon’s series of international social impact art projects.

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See the sun revealed in stunning glory by Solar Orbiter pictures

Solar Orbiter, a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, is the most advanced instrument to orbit the sun and has been sending back information to Earth since it arrived there in 2020.

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‘It changed 20th-century art’: revisiting Robert Frank’s The Americans – in pictures

Frank’s iconic photo book exposed the racism, loneliness and consumer culture lurking behind the American dream. It still resonates today.

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Yto Barrada to Represent France at Next Venice Biennale

French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada, whose Brooklyn-based practice investigates postcolonial historical narratives through sculpture, installation, photography, and textile, will represent France at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, the Institut Français announced this week.

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Michelle Satter To Be Honored At Sundance Film Festival Gala

The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced details for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute, which will take place on Friday, January 24, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Utah.

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Round Up of Week of Nov 17

The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Photographer Captures Breathtaking Close-Up Shot Of A Humpback Whale's Eye.

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Positioned near the side of her head, the eye provides an expansive field of vision, while a thick layer of protective blubber shields it from harm and maintains warmth.

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1st image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say

"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, rather than the actual astronomical structure."

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See the winners of Nature’s Best Photography International Awards 2024

The winners of Nature’s Best Photography International Awards 2024 have been announced. There were more than 25,000 submissions from photographers in 62 countries

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Capturing the Vanishing Glaciers over 20 years

Standing in blinding sunlight on an archipelago above the Arctic Circle, the photographer Christian Åslund looked in shock at a glacier he had last visited in 2002.

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‘Wild Eye’ Magazine’s Debut Issue Demonstrates Commitment to Conservation and Nature Photography

Although landscape, nature, and wildlife photographers lamented the loss of Outdoor Photographer earlier this year, Wild Eye has stepped in to not only fill the void but chart a new, modern direction for a nature photography publication.

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Round Up of Week of Nov 11

The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

1. The new book Magnum America  traces the nation’s often turbulent journey from the tentative optimism

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Magnum America is not a comprehensive photographic history of the United States, but rather draws on stories from the Magnum Archives to ask: What is ‘America’?

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2. Leading Spanish photographer’s studio wrecked by floods

A Spanish artist’s studio has been devastated by last week’s catastrophic flash floods, which ripped through the country’s eastern regions, killing more than 200 people and destroying millions of euros worth of property and infrastructure in their wake.

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3. Music Photographers Up in Arms Over ‘Rights Grab’ Contracts

Music photographers have sounded the alarm over “copyright grab” contracts that are being enforced by major artists.

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4. Ansel Adams: A Legacy Photographs Sold for $4.6m

Sotheby’s' recent Ansel Adams: A Legacy - Photographs from the Meredith Collection featured a comprehensive selection of Ansel Adams’ most significant images, from his views of Yosemite Valley to his abstract studies of the Pacific Coast.

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5. AI trained on as little as 200 images can provide passable imitations of popular artworks,

AI trained on as little as 200 images can provide passable imitations of popular artworks, according to a new study published in Cornell University’s preprint server arXiv—highlighting just how easy it can be for AI systems to mimic copyrighted work.

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