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Son Ye-jin and Hyun Bin got married in a private ceremony on March 31, 2022. They welcomed their first child last year in November.

Actor Son Ye-jin, best known for her web series Crash Landing on You, has praised her husband-actor Hyun Bin’s ‘photography skills’. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Ye-jin posted a bunch of pictures. (Also Read | Crash Landing on You’s Son Ye-jin reacts as Hyun Bin turns photographer)

Ye-jin shares her new pics

In the first photo, Son Ye-jin wore a short blue dress, bucket hat and sneakers. She also wore dark sunglasses. Ye-jin smiled and folded her hands as she posed for the camera. In the next picture, Ye-jin sat inside a golf cart and smiled as she made a heart with her hands. She wore a striped T-shirt, a mini blue skirt, a cap and white sneakers.

Ye-jin poses at golf course

Ye-jin wore a white T-shirt, a matching skirt and a cap in the next photo. She smiled and posed next to a golf cart. The last photo showed Ye-jin posing near a lake dressed in a white top, denim skirt and black shoes. Ye-jin also opted for a bucket hat and dark sunglasses. She smiled and flashed the peace sign with her fingers.

Ye-jin talks about Hyun Bin

Sharing the pictures, she captioned the post, “D-1. (Grimacing face emoji) Am I getting better?? His photography skills are getting better! (Smiling face with sunglasses emoji).” Actor Uhm Ji-won commented, “Are you taking pictures of your legs too long?”

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Fans react to Ye-jin’s post

A fan wrote, “This personal photographer trying his best not to get roasted.” An Instagram user said, “Next time have the photographer do a selfie with you.” A comment read, “The sweetest and cutest couple.” Another person said, “We need a new photo of you and your husband together.” A social media user wrote, “My Queen, you are the best! We love you both so much.”

Ye-jin’s earlier post about Hyun Bin

Earlier this month, Ye-jin shared her photos, clicked Hyun Bin, on Instagram. She captioned the post, “So so hot, what to do…(woman facepalming and female emojis) I’m appearing on Im Jinhan Class golf YouTube channel again (squinting face with tongue and flag in hole emojis). I have to show improvement since then, but I feel.. like I.. didn’t (splashing sweat symbol emoji) So while sweating I hastily practiced but I feel.. it didn’t go the way I want…(weary cat face emoji).”

She also added, “I asked my husband to make me look longer but looks like he only took a long picture… (woozy face emoji). Anyways, take care of your health in this steaming heat and fighting for everything you do (thumbs up sign emoji).” Ye-jin and Hyun Bin tied the knot in a private ceremony on March 31, 2022, before dating for a few years. They welcomed their first child last year in November.

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Whether she’s shooting an advertising campaign for Nike or a photo spread for Vogue, photographer Bassie Maluleka’s images will likely have a common theme. That’s by design. By highlighting Black women, she seeks to bring an often-underrepresented demographic to the forefront.

“I feel like Black people are always shown in light of struggle, and just everyday suffering,” Maluleka said during a recent video interview. “And I just want to change the narrative in that way – I want to shine a light on the stories that we can tell, like the beautiful side of being a Black woman.”

Coming from a family of entrepreneurs in South Africa, Maluleka was constantly surrounded by creativity. While studying finance at university, she had the opportunity to pick up a camera, she said, which soon became her very own tool for expression. Already having doubts about a future in finance, she decided to dive headfirst into a career in photography.

“I literally took the leap and called my parents and was like, ‘listen, it’s my fourth year but I’m dropping out,” she said. “I have a plan; I know what I’m going to do.’”

Honing her craft

As an early-career photographer, Maluleka honed her craft through countless test shoots. Calling up her model, makeup artist, stylist and art director friends, these self-funded photoshoots had the dual benefit of allowing for total creative freedom as well as serving as practical additions to everyone’s professional portfolios.

But taking the leap into the industry as a female photographer in South Africa wasn’t easy. Maluleka soon discovered that for an industry proclaiming a collaborative nature, there existed a substantial amount of “gatekeeping,” she said.

“You always have to know the right people, speak to the right people to get the opportunities – especially as a female photographer,” Maluleka continued.

“And I hate using the term female or Black female,” she added, “because I am a photographer … my gender, my identity doesn’t have anything to do with it. But in as much as that’s the case, (though) I can just close my eyes and not acknowledge that, that will always be the first identifying thing about me.”

Her networking skills have paid off, as Maluleka photographed for international brands including Nike and Puma. She says her biggest career highlight to date is a personal one – her Vogue Italia shoot celebrating the heroines of South Africa’s Women’s Rally. (On August 9, 1956, roughly 20,000 women from across the country gathered in Pretoria to protest a new law by the Apartheid government, forbidding non-White women from living in towns unless they had permission to work there.) Today, August 9 is National Women’s Day and a public holiday in South Africa.

An uphill battle for women photographers

Maluleka is now based in Australia. While she continues to grow her career, she notes the industry overall still has a long way to go when it comes to equality. According to the British Journal of Photography, 70-80% of all photography students worldwide are women, yet they account for only 13-15% of professional photographers.

The biggest challenge for photographers trying to establish their careers is access to opportunity, according to Victoria Baldwin, founder of Women’s Work, a 50-person collective of emerging and established women photographers based in New Zealand. In an email to CNN, Baldwin said that “the status quo is that the majority of established advertising photographers represented by agents are men. It’s hard to break the status quo by yourself.”

“Women have long operated in both the fine art space, and the commercial and advertising space,” she added. “We exist; we just haven’t had much limelight shone our way.”

Maluleka said she felt this acutely in South Africa. Her hope for the country’s advertising industry is to normalize giving women the opportunities in the first place – so that their goals of working with big brands or campaigns no longer becomes so far-fetched.

“I feel like with the creativity that is there, (women) need to be offered more (opportunities),” she said.

She largely credits her mentors for supporting her success, who not only helped develop her photographic eye, but also guided her through a time when she was still learning the ins and outs of the industry – including fellow South African Liezl Zwarts.

“Liezl has to be one of the most humble, loving people that I have ever encountered in my life, especially in an industry where we as women have to prove our competence,” Maluleka said.

She hopes to do the same for the next generation of young female photographers who dream of breaking into a male-dominated industry. Understanding the struggle of having few female South African photographers to look up to, Maluleka wants those starting out to see her as a reference.

“What I can do is be that Black woman breaking barriers and being in the forefront,” she said. “We can do the job.”

Maluleka says her proudest work, “Resilience” (2021), celebrates the heroines of South Africa’s Women’s Rally, where roughly 20,000 women protested a discriminatory Apartheid law in 1956. The photographs featured in Vogue Italia.

Capt Sir John Franklin. A Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer, Franklin set off from Greenhithe in Kent in 1845 to find the Northwest Passage, a polar route to Asia. The images were taken by the Richard Beard Studio in Regent Street, central London, on 15-17 May 1845 onboard HMS Erebus three days before it was to set sail and never to return

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The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a consortium of many large media and technology companies, is working to develop “technical standards for certifying the source and history (or provenance) of media content.” However, much of the burden is placed on the viewer: “A unique aspect of this approach is rather than attempt to determine the veracity of an asset for a user, it enables users themselves to judge by presenting the most salient and/or comprehensive provenance information.” For viewers looking at large numbers of images online daily, exploring the backstory of how certain images were modified and then reflecting on how each change might have affected the image’s credibility seems like a daunting task. Such a system also requires large-scale

implementation of these standards by media companies and other organizations which so far has not happened, while potentially inviting increased suspicion as to the integrity of imagery made by those who do not sign up for their protocols.

Over the last few months, I have been working with a group of organizations that includes World Press Photo, Magnum Photos, the National Press Photographers Association in the US, and many others, in a campaign called “Writing with Light,” harkening back to the beginnings of photography. The goal is to create a community of practitioners who pledge to make photographs that are “fair and accurate representations of what the photographer witnessed,” and not “to publish a photorealistic synthetic image made by artificial intelligence and pretend that it is a photograph.” The point here is that the reader’s trust must be in the photographer as an author, just as one would trust a writer, rather than automatically believing that simply because something appears to be a photograph it is one.

Without such assurances of credibility, those in power will find it considerably easier to deny any imagery or other media that threatens them, calling it fabricated. And it will be more difficult for citizens to have faith in democracies when information, whether provided by image, text, or sound, is consistently suspect. With all of photography’s shortcomings, including it being used in ways that are both stereotypical and harmful as well as indulging in spectacle, it is unclear whether comparable strategies will emerge that can provide authentic reference points allowing societies to respond to specific challenges, whether war, racism, climate change, famine, or any other.

We are at a fundamental turning point in our sense of the real and the possible. There is an urgency to understand what is at stake, and to develop best practices that preserve and amplify what one wants the media to be able to accomplish. In 1984, when photographers were still using film and digital imaging was in its infancy, I wrote in an article for the New York Times Magazine that “in the not-too-distant future, realistic-looking images will probably have to be labeled, like words, as either fiction or nonfiction, because it may be impossible to tell them apart. We may have to rely on the image maker, and not the image, to tell us into which category certain pictures fall.”

For better or worse, this is where we now find ourselves. The solutions, if there are to be any, must come from everyone, and come soon.

We’re delighted to reveal the names of the 24 talented photographers who won AAP Magazine #33: Nature. Predominantly women photographers, they come from 11 different countries and 3 continents.

For this new edition of All About Photo Magazine, we chose to feature projects that beautifully capture the essence of nature, highlighting the magnificence of landscapes, wildlife, and flora & fauna.

Nature photography is a captivating art form that not only celebrates the Earth’s majestic beauty but also plays a vital role in conveying a profound message of conservation and environmental stewardship. Through the lens of a camera, photographers have the unique ability to capture the exquisite details of our natural world, from the grandeur of towering mountains to the delicate intricacies of a flower’s petal. These images serve as powerful ambassadors for the planet, reminding us of the breathtaking wonders that surround us every day.

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