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Potent images that shine a light on domestic abuse – in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 15 June, 2024 - 16:00 · 1 minute

Lingchi , or “death by a thousand cuts”, was a particularly brutal form of execution practised in Asia in ancient times: the condemned person was tied to a post and body parts were slowly sliced off one by one. The Indian-born photographer Sujata Setia uses this barbaric practice in her series A Thousand Cuts as a potent metaphor for a different kind of brutality – domestic abuse. In collaboration with the charity Shewise , Setia spent two years photographing survivors of abuse among the UK’s south Asian community. Using saanjhi , the Indian art of paper-cutting, she makes vivid red cuts in her portraits to express her subjects’ anguish: “I wanted to show how the scars are not only external but internal,” she says. Having grown up witnessing domestic violence, Setia initially resisted turning the camera on herself. “But there came a point where I realised I had to own my own scars.” Taking her own portrait and placing it alongside the others in the series has been “absolutely the most healing process,” she says.

• Setia is the winner of the creative category of the Sony world photography awards 2024, professional competition. The 2024 awards book is available to buy at worldphoto.org . In the UK, the national domestic abuse helpline is 0808 2000 247, or visit womensaid.org.uk

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On my radar: Golda Schultz’s cultural highlights

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 15 June, 2024 - 14:00

The South African soprano on her love of Star Trek, a Stockholm gallery that used to be a squat, and where to find a great negroni in London

The soprano Golda Schultz was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1983. She studied journalism before switching to singing at the University of Cape Town and then Juilliard in New York. In 2011 she joined the Bavarian State Opera. Since then she has sung at La Scala, the Met and, in 2020, at the Last Night of the Proms , as well as releasing two acclaimed albums. Schultz, who lives in Berlin, makes her debut at the Royal Opera House as Fiordiligi in Jan Philipp Gloger’s production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte , from 26 June to 10 July. She also appears at Buxton Opera House on 8 July.

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‘As their older sister, I feel a responsibility to protect them and be a role model’: Aleesha Coker’s best phone picture

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 15 June, 2024 - 09:00

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The week around the world in 20 pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 14 June, 2024 - 18:56

War in Gaza, protests in Buenos Aires, a thunderstorm in Omaha and high temperatures in Athens: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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This photo got 3rd in an AI art contest—then its human photographer came forward

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 13 June, 2024 - 22:34 · 1 minute

Enlarge / To be fair, I wouldn't put it past an AI model to forget the flamingo's head. (credit: Miles Astray )

A juried photography contest has disqualified one of the images that was originally picked as a top three finisher in its new AI art category. The reason for the disqualification? The photo was actually taken by a human and not generated by an AI model.

The 1839 Awards launched last year as a way to "honor photography as an art form," with a panel of experienced judges who work with photos at The New York Times, Christie's, and Getty Images, among others. The contest rules sought to segregate AI images into their own category as a way to separate out the work of increasingly impressive image generators from "those who use the camera as their artistic medium," as the 1839 Awards site puts it .

For the non-AI categories, the 1839 Awards rules note that they "reserve the right to request proof of the image not being generated by AI as well as for proof of ownership of the original files." Apparently, though, the awards did not request any corresponding proof that submissions in the AI category were generated by AI.

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Photographer takes on the machines in AI competition – and wins

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 13 June, 2024 - 16:24

Miles Astray subverts trend of artificial pictures muscling in on human photography, but is disqualified

Ever since the advent of generative AI, the age-old battle of man v machine has been looking decidedly one-sided. But one photographer, intent on making the case for pictures captured with the human eye, has taken the fight to his algorithm-powered rivals – and won.

Miles Astray subverted the idea of artificially generated pictures muscling in on human photography awards by submitting his own human-made image, Flamingone, to the AI category in a prestigious competition.

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Bubbling up! Portrait of Humanity prize winners – in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 13 June, 2024 - 06:00

From acid attack survivors to death-defying date farmers, these images capture the human race at its bravest and most vulnerable

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Paper Ghosts, pandas and campaign trails: photos of the day – Wednesday

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 12 June, 2024 - 14:13

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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‘Thirty-eight bastard years’: Boom and bust in the industrial north-east – in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April, 2024 - 06:00

A new exhibition brings together Chris Killip and Graham Smith’s seminal shots of England’s north-east from 1975-87, when heavy industry and working-class life were transformed