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How underwater photography began: Well, the first image came in 1856, but it wasn’t for more than a century before a legendary camera changed our ocean view. The Calypso 35 mm camera, envisioned by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, opened up a new world, according to this Nat Geo video explainer. There still is plenty of room to discover, says physicist, inventor, and Nat Geo Explorer Ved Chirayath. He noted that 100 percent of Mars and the moon’s surface is mapped, but only about 7 percent of the ocean floor. (Note: The new Nat Geo documentary film, Becoming Cousteau, begins streaming Wednesday on Disney+.)
‘Always look for a different perspective’: A mentor gave that advice to Cheriss May—and the photographer has taken it to heart. A former newspaper designer, Cheriss turned to photography full-time after a layoff in 2010—and The Undefeated has this interview and display of her images. As Cheriss works, “I am thinking about someone reading the photo who can place themselves in that space to create a connection or a conversation with the person in the picture,” she says.
A prize-winner: Nat Geo contributing photographer Muhammad Fadli has just won the book of the year category at the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. Muhammad’s The Banda Journal, with writer and folklorist Fatris MF, tells the story of a tiny Indonesian archipelago that has had an outsize role in global trade and the modern economy. More here.
A trailblazer: In 1956, Gordon Parks photographed scenes in Mobile, Alabama, with the classic composition that resembled Norman Rockwell’s paintings. But something was different in Parks’ America—the well-dressed Black woman and her niece stood outside a neon sign announcing “colored entrance”, for example. Parks, Life magazine’s first Black staff photographer and later a film director, is the subject of an HBO documentary focused on his investment in the humanity of the people he photographed, the Guardian reports.
R.I.P. Mick Rock: Known as the “Man Who Shot the Seventies,” the photographer captured iconic images of artists like David Bowie and Blondie—and later, Snoop Dogg and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. “He was a photographic poet—a true force of nature who spent his days doing exactly what he loved, always in his own delightfully outrageous way,” a statement on his official Twitter page read. He was 72, Rolling Stone reports.
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