Buzzing Berlin-Based Talent Tantalizes Trendsetters with Trademark Shoes

BERLIN , BERLIN, GERMANY, June 29, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — One of the most compelling emerging voices in German fashion photography, Berlin-based talent Jeremy, has recently created ripples in the industry and the public alike with a clever marketing maneuver – a pair of custom shoes bearing his unique logo. This distinctive approach sparked intrigue and speculation, effectively establishing Jeremy as a captivating figure within the fashion world.

In an industry that thrives on innovation, Jeremy’s dynamic engagement with his audience serves as a testament to his creativity, illustrating the depth of his commitment to his craft. Since his foray into fashion photography, he has worked with renowned local brands such as wrstbhvr and NoHugs. His photographs—praised for their unique perspective and fresh take on style—express a striking narrative, echoing the vibrancy of the local fashion scene.

The unveiling of his custom shoes in a recent YouTube video only heightened the buzz around this rising star. This clever integration of personal branding served to amplify whispers about Jeremy’s possible venture into the fashion industry. Could this signal the birth of a new brand, an expansion of his creative horizons? Only time will tell.

Despite his success, Jeremy’s journey into photography was not straightforward. A Google Local Guide initially, his photography received over 46.3 million views—a testament to his talent. In 2017, he transitioned to Instagram, harnessing the power of social media to showcase his artistic expression and garnering a rapidly growing following on his account, @nr.bln.

Fashion and street photography remain the primary focus of Jeremy’s work. However, his scope is far-reaching, encapsulating images that frame the urban landscape of Berlin, including landmarks such as KaDeWe—Europe’s second-largest department store.

Jeremy’s unique vision and relentless drive materialized into concrete form when he took a leap of faith in 2022. In the midst of the pandemic’s uncertainty, he acquired his camera—a Panasonic Lumix DC-FZ82—further honing his skills with tools like Adobe Creative Cloud programs, Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects.

In September 2022, he launched his current Instagram account, @nr.bln. This platform enabled him to further explore the realm of fashion photography, allowing Jeremy to establish a unique and significant voice within the industry. His innovative approach, combined with a keen eye for detail, earmarked Jeremy as a rising star, capturing the attention of both the public and fashion connoisseurs alike.

Despite being relatively new to the field, Jeremy has shown a profound understanding of his craft and the industry. His adept usage of social media to leverage his brand and the intriguing rumors about a possible fashion brand launch indicate a promising future. He represents the new wave of influencers—talented, innovative, and interactive—set to revolutionize the industry.

As his journey unfolds, Jeremy continues to contribute substantially to the German fashion scene, offering fresh perspectives through his lens.

To follow his path, visit his Instagram account @nr.bln (https://www.instagram.com/nr.bln/) or his YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@jeremys.social).

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As exciting as wildlife photography can be, something unpredictable can always happen. For a group that runs tours in Alaska, a regular day of taking pictures of bears went sideways for one scary moment. As they were marveling at the animals, a grizzly bear charged at them. Luckily, the experienced photographers knew exactly what to do to keep everyone safe.

The chilling moment was captured in a video by Scenic Bear Viewing, a company that offers guided trips in Homer, Alaska. The footage begins with a group of explorers taking pictures of a bear in a beach area, calmly whispering about the scene. Then, the camera turns to reveal another brown bear running at them at full speed. Despite the threat, the adventurers seem to know how to react. In an amazing display of levelheadedness and trained preparedness, the photographers scream and roar at the bear, who quickly changes its mind and goes away.

“Never run from a charging bear, even though your instinct is to run,” writes Scenic Bear Viewing. “This is a bluff charge. They are just trying to get you to run. They have a natural chase instinct.” The company also notes that people shouldn’t get close to bears in the wild, and that having an experienced guide is key. They add, “We do not get closer than 50 yards. These bears came to us.”

The company explains that the bears in that area have been visited by humans for over three decades. “It’s a part of their daily lives in the summer to see us every day of their 20-25 year life,” they say. Still, these things can happen. They have certainly happened before in their 10 years guiding photographers through the area.

For those hoping to join an expedition like this but wonder about the dangers, the company notes that they follow a strict set of rules for everyone’s sake. “These bears are not fed or hunted by humans. No harm is being done to these bears and we want to keep it that way,” they explain. “We take photos of the bears and leave no trace. We want the bears to stay protected. There has never been an attack in this area in the 30 years people have visited.”

To learn more about the tour company—and see the spectacular bear pictures they have been able to capture—you can follow Scenic Bear Viewing on Instagram.

For Scenic Bear Viewing, a group that runs tours in Alaska, a regular day of taking pictures of bears went sideways for one scary moment.

As they were marveling at the animals, a grizzly bear charged at them. Luckily, they knew what to do to keep everyone safe. Watch the video below.

Scenic Bear Viewing: Website | Instagram
h/t: [PetaPixel]

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Publisher Annapurna Interactive [127 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/annapurna-interactive”>Annapurna Interactive and developer Matt Newell” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/matt-newell”>Matt Newell have announced photography Simulation [321 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/simulation”>simulation game Lushfoil Photography Sim [1 article]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/lushfoil-photography-sim”>Lushfoil Photography Sim for console and PC [17,874 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/pc”>PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

A tranquil exploration and photography experience featuring realistic in-game cameras and a vast selection of faithfully-detailed landscapes presented in stunning visual fidelity.

Freeform Exploration

Experience detailed, true-to-life recreations of beautiful and diverse locations around the world. Trek through and explore environments to capture stunning vistas and landscapes with your fully-featured in-game camera. Each environment is filled with objectives to reward players that have a good eye for angles and perspectives, and hidden secrets for those who are patient and observant.

The rich atmosphere of Lushfoil’s world is enhanced by an ambient, ethereal soundtrack featuring licensed music from artists around the world.

Capture the Perfect Shot

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Off the Beaten Path

Dive deeper into the game’s many locations to find unlockable cameras and experience the world from unique perspectives. Find a first-person drone that allows you to soar above the landscape and capture the world from above, or find a hidden rowboat that allows you to traverse still waters in pursuit of the perfect shot.

Optimized for Beauty

Each environment has been created in Unreal Engine 5 and is built from the ground up to be both efficiently optimized and showcase the game’s locations in stunning visual fidelity. There are extensive custom settings that will help the game run on a wide range of PCs, while taking full advantage of high-end graphics cards.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View a set of screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer

We’ve seen some gimmicky photography games in the past or been presented with photo modes as a side thought, but Annapurna Interactive and developer Matt Newell are bringing a game that puts the artistry and skill of photography at its core. Lushfoil Photography Sim was revealed today, inviting players to travel to lush and diverse environments inspired by locations around the world and capture the beauty of these places with a fully-featured in-game camera.

Lushfoil Photography Sim was unveiled during the Annapurna Interactive Showcase on June 29, 2023. Built in Unreal Engine 5, Lushfoil invites players to interesting locations and sets them loose to try to capture the perfect shots of nature and the worlds around them. Aiming to be a true natural photography experience, Lushfoil includes camera gameplay that aims to simulate the functions of a professional camera perfectly, will features and settings including Auto/Manual Focus, Flash, Exposure, Contrast, White Balance, Aperture, Burst Shot, and other effects. You might even be able to use the environment to your advantage, working around weather effects that include rain, snow, and fog, as well as manipulating the environment to create the best light angles for your shots.

Lushfoil Photography Sim is something quite out of the ordinary for a game in a time where players often love to play with Photo Modes. It’s one of the few games that makes the process of nature photography the very core of its gameplay. Sure, we’ve had games like Pokemon Snap, and those are fun too. However, Lushfoil also doesn’t look arcade-y where you’re scoring points on a level for the best shots. Traveling, positioning yourself, finding the right camera settings, and even being patient for the perfect shot sound much more involved in the creative and professional aspects of the art.

Lushfoil Photography Sim doesn’t have a release date yet, but is expected to come to PC and consoles. Stay tuned for more details and be sure to check out more coverage from the full 2023 Annapurna Interactive Showcase.

TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at tj.denzer@shacknews.com and also find him on Twitter @JohnnyChugs.

Annapurna Interactive [75 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/annapurna-interactive/”>Annapurna Interactive is set to publish a game about taking photos in beautiful landscapes around the world.

Lushfoil Photography Sim is being developed by Matt Newell, an Australian developer who specialises in creating photorealistic environments in Unreal Engine 5.

According to the game’s description, players will “trek through and explore environments to capture stunning vistas and landscapes with [their] fully-featured in-game camera.”

It adds: “Discover hidden secrets and objectives that reward patient and observant players that have a good eye for angles and perspectives.”

Promising to appeal to serious photographers too, the game will include “an abundance of settings that you’d expect from a real-world professional DSLR camera”.

These include auto/manual focus, flash, exposure, contrast, white balance, aperture, burst shot and other effects.

By exploring the locations, players will also find unlockable cameras which enable them to “experience the world from different perspectives”.

Players will be able to find a first-person drone which lets them take photos from the sky, or a hidden kayak which lets them take photos from the middle of a lake.

According to the game’s Steam page, the enivronments set to feature include:

• Lago di Braies (Italy)
• Castle Rock Beach (Australia)
• Fushimi Inari Taisha (Japan)
• Mýrdalssandur (Iceland)
• Le Prarion (France)
• Mardi Himal Trail (Nepal)
• Yamadera (Japan)
• Shengshan Island (China)

It will also include an “ambient, ethereal soundtrack” featuring licensed music from artists around the world.

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Queer love has been around forever, but it can be hard to picture what it looked like even a century ago. Now, thanks to a new exhibition at the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) in Geneva, Switzerland, visitors can see firsthand via a collection of 400 photographs of men in love, dating from between 1850 and 1950.

The collection is the product of couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell. 20 years ago, the duo stumbled upon a photograph of two men embracing at an antique store in Dallas, Texas. They couldn’t help but see themselves in the photo, and they decided to take it home.

“When we found the first, we had no expectation there would ever be a second,” Nini told The Art Newspaper.

But there was a second. And a third, and a fourth, and so on, until their collection reached its now massive scope of more than 4,000 historical photographs of men in love, originating from 36 different countries.

“We felt [it] was our obligation to keep these photographs. To keep them safe,” Treadwell said. “Our goal is to continue to have museum exhibitions wherever we can that will propel us into telling this story and sharing the history that love is love. Love has been around forever.”

In 2020, Nini and Treadwell turned their collection into a popular photography book, Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850-1950, that featured more than 300 of the photographs they’d found over the past two decades. They also released a short documentary telling the story of their collection.

Now, their collection has been adapted to an exhibition, also titled Loving, which features nearly all the photographs from the book, along with 80 never-before-seen pictures that Nini and Treadwell have collected since the book was released.

“In these pictures it’s fantastic the number of different stories it could activate,” said MAH director Marc-Olivier Wahler. He gave a 1951 photograph of two soldiers sitting close together on a bench as an example.

“You wonder, they’re in the army and are they really together? Then suddenly you see the entangled feet. And all these possible stories — what happened to them, what happened to this photograph? Where was it found? It’s endless.”

Loving is on display at MAH through September 23. Get a sneak peek at the photographs for yourself:

The Audubon Photography Awards has recreated its winning photos with artificial intelligence (AI) to see how the synthetic images match up to the real work of photographers.

The National Audubon Society approached the photographers that won the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards and asked them to describe their photos in a few sentences to “someone who can’t see the image.”

Then, with their permission, Audubon fed those descriptions into the AI image generator DALL-E and compared the generated images alongside the real photos.

Comparing Real Photos to AI Photos

In an article for Audubon, Photoshelter chairman and co-founder Allen Murabayashi warns that AI technology poses “fundamental questions” to wildlife photography.

“Soon we may not be able to tell if a bird photo is real or fake,” he writes.

“It’s not just photographers, but also conservationists who must contend with these developments. Photography has long been used to build wonderment of the natural world and to bolster arguments for protecting declining species, addressing habitat decline, and boosting public trust in the reality of climate change.”

However, Murabayashi insists AI will not replace photography as the technology will not “end our drive to document everyday wildlife moments.”

“For all the transformation AI may bring, I find it unlikely that it will turn human effort, expertise, and experience into quaint anachronisms,” he says.

“The joy of observing a bird and the effort to trek into the backcountry to capture an exquisite photo remind us of nature’s beauty and necessity. It’s up to humans, not AI, to act accordingly to preserve our world.”

This is not the first time a photo competition has tested to see whether AI can replicate the work of its winners. Last year, the Royal Meteorological Society challenged viewers to take the Turing test to see if they could tell which work was from the winners and which was AI-generated.

Award-winning, local gay artist Todd Bradley presents “Freedom on the Fence,” a captivating outdoor photography exhibition that captures the essence of the Normal Heights community’s beliefs and personal interpretations of freedom and America. This unique and thought-provoking event will take place on the picket fence at the home of David and Mindy Hayes, hosts of an annual Fourth of July event. The photography exhibition will run briefly from July 1 to July 4 evening.

“Freedom on the Fence” brings together the diverse voices of the Normal Heights community, showcasing their perspectives on freedom and what America means to them. Through a series of photographs taken over a year, Todd Bradley artfully captures the spirit and diversity of the neighborhood, all while emphasizing the unity that binds the community together.

This four-day unconventional exhibition fosters community engagement and highlights artists’ challenges finding traditional gallery spaces to showcase their work. Art institutions have been closing at alarming rates lately. And the scheduling for solo shows at museums or galleries is often years away. Artists like Todd Bradley have turned to innovative methods to bring their art to the public.

The exhibition features photographs of community members taken over the last year, with a significant portion captured during the Fourth of July ice cream social at the Hayes’ home. Other images were taken in the studio with a black background. Participants were allowed to express their thoughts on democracy by selecting a framed blackboard with “Freedom is” or “America is” or by writing their own message. The chosen images strikingly portray the neighborhood’s diversity and the richness of our nation.

“Freedom on the Fence” will display large 2-foot by 3-foot images printed on vinyl strapped onto the white picket fence at the Hayes’ home on the corner of 35th Street and North Mountain View Dr. This daytime exhibition will be a focal point of the annual Fourth of July celebrations in Normal Heights. The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, July 1, in the morning and will remain on display until the evening of July 4.

To celebrate the exhibition and strengthen the community bonds, a special reception will be held on July 4 at 11 a.m., coinciding with the annual ice cream social. Attendees will be able to engage with the artist, Todd Bradley, to gain deeper insights into the stories behind the photographs and participate in the project by voicing their opinions on a chalkboard about Freedom or America while having their portrait taken.

“Freedom on the Fence” encapsulates the true spirit of Normal Heights, showcasing the community’s shared values while respecting the diverse perspectives within. Join us in this celebration of art, freedom, and community.

In May, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum opened the much-anticipated second phase of its Photography Centre. Set to be the UK’s largest permanent photography display, it will survey the medium’s past, present and future. With plans to rotate displays across seven galleries, it reflects the V&A’s renewed commitment to photography.

The centre has the feel of a museum within a museum and is clearly designed to cultivate debate, as it also houses a dedicated reading and research room that aims to examine the relationship between photography and the book as a form of publishing. The centre’s archive has been opened to researchers and the public alike.

The centre will provide not just a new home for the V&A’s extensive photography collection (which dates back to the 19th century), it will also go some way to cementing the status of photography as a leading form of expression within contemporary visual culture.

The V&A’s new addition will, like London’s long-established Photographers’ Gallery, contribute to our understanding of the pivotal role that photography has played in reflecting on and shaping our world.

A quick tour

Sidestepping the pitfalls of categorisation by genre, the opening rooms, Photography 1840s – Now, present a more idiosyncratic curation of images. Visitors are presented with juxtaposing images under a programme of changing themes, starting with Energies: Sparks from the Collection.

The theme prompts visitors to meditate on the way the medium captures the energy of a subject in an image. It also asks them to consider the way images are manipulated through photo-chemical processes.

It will be interesting to see to what extent this approach will produce new perspectives on the diversity of images held in the V&A’s collection. Navigating darkened galleries with backlit displays, it becomes clear that these unique commissions and new acquisitions will become the site for developing knowledge of the medium – expanding notions of photographic practice by making links between historical and future techniques and processes.

The works selected for another theme, Photography Now, set a political agenda and echo pressing themes for our times: climate change, socio-political conflict, gender and identity and the legacy of colonial histories.

A foray into decolonising the canon is exemplified in the work of Sammy Baloji. In his mirror prints, fragmented images of raw copper ore float over archive photographs of the Congo’s colonial past.

Also compelling are the evocative images from Speak the Wind, Hoda Afshar’s combination of poetic landscapes and human subjects that attempt to make visible the invisible force of a mythical malevolent wind known as “Zar”. These works expose the physical and cultural traces of the Arab slave trade from Africa to the Persian Gulf.

Elsewhere there is an emphasis on the fascination many contemporary photographers have with the medium itself. A number of the showcased artists create a dialogue with the past by adapting some of the earliest techniques in novel ways.

Notable are the performance self portraits by Tarrah Krajnak, who combines projected images with the cyanotype process. This is an early form of photographic printing using coated paper and light, later widely known as blueprinting. Krajnak uses it to explore personal identity in relation to Peru’s traumatic political past.

Collotypes (a 19th-century photographic-based printmaking technique) by Antony Cairns constitute a “translation” between old and new, taking images of urban spaces which are frozen on defunct e-reader(kindle?) screens and then reproducing them on paper.

It is positive to see a significant number of female photographers represented in the Photography Centre.

Vera Lutter’s unique monochrome negative of a radio telescope – inscribed directly onto light-sensitive paper through an extended period of exposure using a large pinhole camera – is a reminder that photography is inextricably linked to time through the actual processes employed (exposure times, developing, printing and so on).

Concluding these rooms is the monumental sculptural photo installation, Giant Phoenix VI, by Noémie Goudal. Her complex process explores the deep time of paleoclimatology, which reconstructs the climates of ancient history. Goudal photographs trees and then inserts scale photographs back into the real world and photographs them again.

The resulting images are then layered as fragments onto towering metal panels that, when viewed from different positions, simultaneously break up and reform the picture plane, alluding to the fragility of the image and the subject it depicts.

A huge undertaking

The photograph is deeply entangled in our contemporary experience, playing a crucial role in recording and informing our understanding of the world. Which means photography has a number of overlapping histories: as a technology of seeing, a social document and an aesthetic practice.

So how do we begin to unpick and present these interwoven histories in a way that does not leave one overshadowed by another? And how best do we present each photograph to stimulate thought and action beyond the confines of the gallery? It will be interesting to observe how the V&A’s new Photography Centre navigates these challenges now that the gallery is open to the public.

Kary Janousek is a photographer based in Fargo, North Dakota. Her downtown studio is at the top of the Masonic Block building, and in a way, it’s a perfect place for what she does: Firstly, for all the natural light that streams through the many tall windows that line the building.

Secondly, because she does tintype and ambrotype photography. Her profession and the building where she operates her business both date back to the 1800s.

Tom Brosseau visited Kary’s studio to have his portrait taken, and see the tintype process in action. Listen above.

Photo: Tom Brosseau photographed by Kary Janousek / Old School Collodion.

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This segment is from The Great American Folk Show, Episode 80. New episodes air Saturdays at 5pm on Prairie Public.

This segment is also a part of FM Arts, a special radio series of profiles, performances, and discussions with artists in the Fargo-Moorhead area. FM Arts is funded by The Arts Partnership, with support from the Cities of Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo.