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A UH student’s passion for advocacy, music and photography for Pride Month

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Meet Landon Richie, a 20-year-old political science major at the University of Houston. He’s a gifted trumpet player and a 3rd-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Richie also loves photography, poetry, and going to concerts.

“Just doing anything a kid would do in school with my family, with extracurriculars and stuff like that,” he said.

But for much of Richie’s childhood, he couldn’t entirely focus on the things he loves and feels passionate about.

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Richie knew from a very young age that he was transgender.

“As early as I could walk, talk, and really think for myself, I knew that I was in some way different from my peers and those around me. I gravitated towards and felt most comfortable in boys’ clothing, playing with boys’ toys, and assuming the male role in games,” Richie said.

“The feelings persisted and got stronger as I got older. I was not just a tomboy like everybody assumed or how I had even assumed myself because I had no other word at the time to describe what I was feeling. It was just extreme discomfort, ” he added.

With limited resources and knowledge, he and his parents navigated a challenging journey before Richie finally felt he could live his authentic life.

“The night that I told them I am transgender, we sat down as a family and cried together. We talked about how I understood myself, how they had seen signs growing up but didn’t know what to expect. They were very clear in communicating that they love me, supported me, and wanted to help me be myself, no matter what it took. They were there for every step of the way,” Richie said.

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Richie knew not every trans youth has that supportive environment. That’s partly what led him into advocacy work, something he first became involved with when he was 12.

Currently, he serves on the board of directors for the GenderCool Project and works with the Transgender Education Network of Texas, aiming to improve gender-diverse equality in the state.

The GenderCool Project is collaborating with ABC to give more insight into the perspective of transgender youth in the world.

“I’m extremely proud of him,” Richie’s dad, Aaron, said. “I tell people Landon is very passionate about supporting other people and maintaining their well-being. He is very touched by other people’s suffering. That’s such an admirable quality for any human to have.”

“Probably one of the least interesting things about Landon is that he’s trans. He’s got so many amazing qualities as an individual that I think anyone who gets to know Landon would like him, ” Aaron said.

Richie is still determining exactly what the future holds for him. But currently, he has his eyes on a potential career as a civil rights attorney. No matter where he ends up, he knows one thing: He wants to leave the world a better place than how he found it.

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“It’s important to recognize that we have always been here and will continue to be here,” Richie said. “I hope to leave behind a world more kind and more accepting and more loving of trans people where it is not the outlier for us to thrive. It is the baseline, and we don’t have to explain ourselves. We can just be.”

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Shimoda Women’s Collection backpacks announced

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In recognition that one size does not fit all, backpack manufacturer Shimoda has launched a range of 5 backpacks specifically designed for female photographers. The new bags are supplied with Shimoda’s Women’s Tech Straps, previously available and shaped to suit women.

Shimoda Women’s Series Explore 30 v2 review

The five models comprise three sizes of Action X v2 backpacks and two sizes of Explore v2 backpack, all available in a new ‘Teal Colourway’ that is exclusive to the Women’s Collection. They are the Action X25 v2 Action X30 and Action X40 (with capacities of 25L, 30L and 40L respectively) and the Explore 25 v2 and Explore 30 v2 (with capacities of 25L and 30L respectively).

Like all Shimoda bags, the new Shimoda women’s collection is made from high-quality materials to survive serious use.

As well as the straps, the female-specific features include dual sternum straps, a removable, adjustable waist belt, a ladder system for adjusting the height of the strap attachment, multiple accessory mounting points and with the Action, the ability to change the capacity of the bag with the roll top.

Shimoda Women’s Series Action X25 v2 review - backpack in use in use — Shimoda Women’s Series Action X25 v2

Danny Dullforce, Product Marketing Manager, commented, “We have seen an
overwhelming response worldwide to the harness straps that were made specifically for
women. Having acknowledged that no other bag brand had a specific women’s range, we
undertook the research and feedback was so positive we decided to launch the range in
time for women to make the most of their adventures during the summer months.”

Shimoda Women’s collection price and availability

The Women’s Collection backpacks are set to retail for:
Action X25 v2 Women’s Starter Kit (w/ Small Mirrorless Core Unit) – £375.00
Action X30 v2 Women’s Starter Kit (w/ Medium Mirrorless Core Unit) – £385.00
Action X40 v2 Women’s Starter Kit (w/ Medium DSLR Core Unit) – £425.00
Explore v2 25 Women’s Starter Kit (w/ Small Mirrorless Core Unit) – £335.00
Explore v2 30 Women’s Starter Kit (w/ Medium Mirrorless Core Unit) – £369.00

The Shimoda Women’s series is available from today, 1st June 2023.

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Photographer Omi Kim Creates Stunning Double-Exposure Photographs

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Japanese photographer Omi Kim Creates stunning double-exposure photographs. He named this series as “New Past” and Omi combined the photographs taken in the past, he beautifully combined his photographs with the help of Photoshop.

You can find Omi’s more amazing work on his Instagram and more projects on his website.

You can find Omi Kim on the web:

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Richard Avedon Once Called Fashion Photography A “Loveless, Lying Art”. Was He Right?

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But at 19, making mug shots for ID cards for months on end, the poet manqué was still unfulfilled. “I must have taken pictures of maybe 100,000 baffled faces before it ever occurred to me that I was becoming a photographer,” he would later reflect. These quotidian images were pared down to portraiture’s essentials out of necessity: heads and shoulders presented against a seamless white background with one direct source of light. Despite the work’s repetitive nature, its influence can be felt in Avedon’s distinctive later style, in his painstaking scrutiny of faces and expressions.

His portraits are intimate close-ups that reveal every blemish and nuance of physiognomy with an uncompromising, even brutal, honesty. The frontality of his composition and his very lack of “style” set him apart from the majority of his contemporaries, with the exception of his friend Diane Arbus. Between them, they discarded the conventions of the first 100-odd years of portrait photography and, by reducing it to its core, redefined what the essence of portraiture should be. Their subjects stand alone, uneasy and isolated – revealing something intimate and essential about their characters in the process.

This is as true of his first works as his final ones, composed more than half a century apart. An early photograph, from 1947, shows a smiling boy in Noto, Sicily, facing the viewer with his hands resolutely by his sides. The sparse background, barely in focus, is dominated by a tree, its mushroom-shaped branches resembling nothing so much as the aftermath of a nuclear detonation. One of his last portraits was also of a child, his godson Luke Avedon, another young man confronting the world alone. Except he isn’t smiling, and behind him there is a white out – nothing at all.

And yet if Avedon’s harshly seductive outlook was remarkably consistent from 1947 to 2003, his sources of inspiration were innumerable. His journey has its roots in theatre. In 1949, he spent several months as the associate art director of Theatre Arts Magazine. His short tenure served a purpose: focussing his mind on pursuing talents that could interpret something of the human condition through the roles they played. Buster Keaton’s desperate Vaudeville gestures dissolve easily into the existential anguish of Bert Lahr’s Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Avedon’s subsequent scrutiny of fame emphasised its bleakest manifestations: Michelangelo Antonioni is delivered to us half-paralysed from a stroke, Marilyn Monroe is at her most wounded and remote, Ezra Pound is seen in the grip of mania, while the head of Chet Baker, sunken by addiction, barely hovers in the frame at all, as if shortly to slip from view.

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CJPOTY round 6: Wildlife – Camera Jabber

CJPOTY round 6 June 2023 - wildlife - Heron

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The theme for the sixth round of the 2023/24 Camera Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competition is ‘Wildlife’. Animals make such fascinating subjects and we’re looking forward to seeing images from your wildlife encounters, whether that’s with tiny insects in your back garden or majestic elephants from a safari. The photographs can be taken anywhere and at any time.

This round of our monthly competition is open for submissions until 23:59 BST (00:59 CET and 15:59 PST) on 30th June 2023.

To submit your entry follow the link to cjpoty or click on the CJPOTY button at the top of any of our website pages. You can submit up to three entries for £2.00 plus payment processing costs (£0.26). Images should be Jpegs at least 1920 pixels along their longest side but no larger than 2MB.

Camera Jabber Photographer of the Year prizes

At the end of the month, the Camera Jabber team will pick one winning image and nine runners-up from the June entries. The photographer of the winning image will receive a voucher from MPB.com to the value of £500 which can be spent on anything from a huge range of kit from the World’s biggest platform for used photographic gear.

All 10 of the selected images will go into our shortlist for the year.

We’ll do this each month in 2023 so that by the end of the year, there will be 120 shortlisted images. These will then go before our fantastic panel of judges who will decide the 1st, 2nd and 3rd-placed images.

The photographer of the first-placed image overall, as decided by the panel of judges, will receive a voucher to the value of £1000 from MPB.com as well as a trophy and the title ‘Camera Jabber Photographer of the Year 2024‘. The photographers who come second and third will receive vouchers worth £500 and £250 respectively.

You don’t have to enter the competition every month, but you are welcome to do so and the more shortlisted images you have at the end of the year, the greater the chance of winning the top prize.

Photographing Wildlife with the Panasonic Lumix G9: Cheetah

CJPOTY VIP Judges

At the end of the year, our illustrious panel of judges has the onerous task of selecting the first, second and third-placed images overall from the shortlist of 120. Our judges are:

Benedict Brain – Photographer, journalist & Sigma ambassador
Sophie Collins – Chief Marketing Office at MPB, Trustee of Royal Photographic Society
Donna Crous – Food photographer, author, Nikon Europe ambassador and Rotolight Master of Light
Ross Hoddinott – Landscape photographer, wildlife photographer, author, tutor, conservationist
Tracy Marshall-Grant – Arts Director, curator and producer
Denise Maxwell – Multi-genre photographer and lecturer
Carolyn Mendelsohn – Artist and portrait photographer
Paul Sanders – fine art photographer
Jemella Ukaegbu – Photographer & founder of UK Black Female Photographers (UKBFTOG)
Christina Vaughan – Founder of Cultura Creative, the home of inclusive stock photography

Follow the link to find out more about the CJPOTY judges.

About MPB

Founded by Matt Barker in 2011, MPB is the world’s largest platform for used photography and videography kit. MPB has transformed the way people buy, sell and trade equipment, making photography more accessible, affordable and sustainable.

Headquartered in the creative communities of Brighton, Brooklyn and Berlin, the MPB team includes trained camera experts and seasoned photographers and videographers who bring their passion to work every day to deliver outstanding service. Every piece of kit is inspected carefully by product specialists and comes with a six-month warranty to give customers peace of mind that buying used doesn’t mean sacrificing reliability.

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Artist Deanna Maree Paintings 100 Species Of Birds On Slices Of Wood

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Australian artist Deanna Maree creates 100 species of birds on slices of wood in hundred days. In April 2020 she challenged herself to paint a bird each day for 100 days. She just uses gouache and sliced wood logs to create her mixed-media portraits of colorful birds from different species.

In her words “I have always been drawn to birds and all that they represent, and I love painting birds because there is so much variety and variation in the bird world. I had fun bringing each bird to life on the timber, I enjoyed the tree/bird connection…and I found gouache to be very flexible and forgiving throughout the project.”

Scroll down and inspire yourself. Please check Deanna’s Instagram and Website for more amazing work.