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Diana works as a Team Lead and a Community Manager for Bored Panda. After acquiring a BA in Business with Marketing Management, she decided that she wanted to do something far more creative than her usual marketing business which mostly included researching companies’ competitors or working on swot/pestle analysis every single day. Excel spreadsheets weren’t her thing either, so she decided creative storytelling was the way to go. Other than that, outside of work, you can find her making barista-style coffee or hand-stretched pizzas, sometimes even drawing and playing video games with friends.

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SELLERSBURG — For Keith Russell Jr., getting the perfect sports shot is about being at the right place at the right time, and that philosophy also relates to how he launched a lucrative side gig.

About two years ago, Russell bought a camera because he wanted to photograph his son, Landyn, on the baseball diamond during Silver Creek Little League games.

Russell wasn’t a professional photographer, and didn’t have much experience in the field. Thankfully technology and his neighbor, who is a professional photographer, provided Russell with the basics he needed to get started.

“I got on YouTube and I took some advice from my neighbor, and I just kind of started playing around with it and experimenting with it,” Russell said.

He posted some of his initial photos on social media, and that drew the attention of other parents on the team.

“A few moms would say ‘hey, can you get a few of ours?’ They were friends, so I said sure,” Russell said.

Before long, parents from other teams were asking if he could photograph their children on the field, and they offered to pay.

“I never thought about it as a business, but I said sure, I’ll show up,” Russell said.

From there, Russell launched a Facebook page and website for what was becoming a popular business, KR Photography.

The requests kept coming, and not just for youth sports. Russell has been hired to shoot senior portraits, maternity photos and design graphics for high school player commitments and all-star teams.

He’s been credentialed at University of Louisville basketball games, Louisville Slugger baseball contests and many other events. And it all started with a few mothers asking him to take photos of their sons playing baseball.

“I bought a $2,000 camera and turned it into over the last year-and-a-half over $60,000 in revenue just doing photography work on the side,” said Russell, who said he’s happy with his full-time job in Sellersburg and intends to keep photography as a part-time gig for now.

In fact, it doesn’t really feel like a job to Russell. He used to play golf regularly, but said these days he’s more entertained by shooting a photo session than hitting the links.

“It’s definitely a passion of mine and I think that’s why I excel at it because I love doing it,” Russell said.

He credits some of his success to an unmet need. There are a lot of professional photographers in the area, but not many who focus on sports, he said.

Russell spent time this week shooting Little League tournaments in Clarksville and Charlestown. Next week, he plans to be at the New Albany Little League park for district action.

He’s also found a way to give back. Russell recently launched K2 Performance sunglasses and batting gloves. The sales generate money for kids who can’t afford league fees or equipment, he said.

For more information, visit KR Photography on Facebook, or email smile@kr.photography.

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The finalists of 2023’s Drone Photography Awards are a mix of abstract, colourful and downright jaw-dropping images from around the world.

Whether it’s urban areas from above, striking nature shots in all its wildness, or people captured in their rawest of moments, these images are among the most captivating the appear in the competition.

Shown here under the ‘urban’ category is finalist ”Playground” by Sebastian Piórek.

“A playground full of joy hidden somewhere deep in the south of Poland shows its beauty in the first flash of sun from above,” Piórek wrote.

“This region is known for its mines and strongly urban character of architecture, so such a colourful playground is a kind of pearl from the ground and also from the air”.

Earth.Org has been proud to host our Global Wildlife & Natural World Photography Competition, and a sincere thank you to all those who entered the 2023 edition. We received entries from nearly 1,000 talented photographers, conservationists, wildlife enthusiasts, and explorers from across the world who all share a passion for the environment and uncovering our planet’s natural beauty. Here are the winners and runner-ups of this year’s competition, showcasing the stunning and powerful scenes depicting the human impacts on the environment and wildlife, as well as the efforts people are doing to lead the change. 

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The Earth.Org Climate Crisis Photography Competition 2024 has already kicked off! Make sure to follow us on social media for updates.

If you would like to become a part of our global movement and mission, consider becoming an EO photographer. Earth.Org’s official photographers and their content will be regularly featured in our articles and our Instagram and Facebook posts. There is no financial commitment. When we post one of your photographs, we will inform you and ask you to repost the article or post on your Instagram story.

Exploring how humans witness each other, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) presents an expansive selection of photographs in a new exhibition titled People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965. The show examines how people look at each other: as a recreational activity, an act of surveillance, a type of harassment, a sign of empathy, and a documentary form of expression. The idea for the exhibition came together in the wake of the global pandemic of 2020, when social distancing and shelter in place orders transformed the understanding of one’s relationship to others, as well as the recent social and racial justice movements, when people were demanding to be seen, heard, and respected. The exhibition brings together a group of images from 1965 to the present that investigate the ways in which artists represent individuals on the street, at home and at work, in the studio, and during journalistic assignments. More than 120 photos are featured by almost 50 photographers from the last 60 years, including Diane Arbus, Alfredo Jaar, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, Accra Shepp, Andy Warhol, and Ai Weiwei, among others.

“We could not help but be inspired by the sudden changes to how we view each other and ourselves in 2020. With People Watching we have mined the collection for artworks that will give us and our audiences a chance to analyze the ways in which we look at each other and portray each other,” said Frank Goodyear, co-director of the museum. “In doing so, the exhibition presents important works from the museum’s diverse collection, some of which are going on view for the first time. And while People Watching is about noticing differences, it is also about attempts to find common ground, an idea that is especially poignant at this point in time.”

The exhibition features more than 40 works acquired since 2020. This selection includes works generously donated by collectors Nancy Rutter Clark, Joseph Baio, and Robert Freson, among others. It also features many photographers, whose work has only recently been added to the collection, including Adou, Jules Allen, Larry Burrows, Chan Chao, Paul D’Amato, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Mikki Ferrill, Jona Frank, Katy Grannan, Graciela Iturbide, Rashid Johnson, Meryl McMaster, Daido Moriyama, Laurel Nakadate, and Farah Al Qasimi.

People Watching : Contemporary Photography since 1965
from June 24 to November 5, 2023
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art
245 Maine St.
Brunswick, ME 04011
www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum

Lovers of socially conscious photography can enjoy the creations of a Gustavus professor in far-flung locations this summer and fall. Priscilla Briggs, Art and Art History and Film and Media Studies, is showcasing her work at London’s Saatchi Gallery through September 17 as part of an exhibition called, “Civilization: The Way We Live Now.” Briggs is featured alongside about 150 fellow photographers from all over the globe in an installation that “highlights the complexity and contradictions of contemporary civilization.”

“Happy” is part of the globetrotting “Civilization” exhibit.

The specific photo in the London exhibit—”Civilization” has been touring the globe for several years—was shot in China, where Briggs has traveled to document how the communist country’s relatively new systems of capitalism “intersect East and West in terms of ideology, and how that’s manifested in the retail landscape,” she said. (The installation has an accompanying book that compiles its photos.)

Beginning in August, the Candela Collection, based in Richmond, VA will host the 12^th edition of its UnBound! exhibit, which supports photographers by selling their original works and encourages their donation to notable permanent collections. For this, Briggs is including “Dollars and Sense: a zine about Capitalism,” which, like much of her work, explores societal divides, in this case by comingling statistics and narratives about wealth and poverty with images from the 2020 social justice protests. It’s one of multiple zines Briggs has helped create to dissect how consumerism influences social justice, the environment, and overall equity.

“The gold [pages] are about wealth and how that’s accumulated in the United States in various sectors of the economy, and then the black [pages are] about poverty and or death related to poverty and how that comes about,” she said.

Briggs will be on sabbatical this fall and will spend part of that time photographing organic farms in Italy after doing the same this summer here in Minnesota. Although she hasn’t yet identified specific end goals for that project, it was partly inspired by her father, an organic farmer in Pennsylvania. “A lot of the work I’ve done is looking more at one critical side of things, so I wanted to look at sustainable farming as a solution rather than focus on a problem,” she said. “Usually when I start a project, I’m not exactly sure what it’s going to lead. I just start with an idea of what I want to investigate and then the conceptual foundation of that will evolve into something.”

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