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NEWS ROUND-UP

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MUSTAFA

HASSONA

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DOCUMENTARY

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2019

SONY

WORLD

PHOTOGRAPHY

AWARDS

MUSTAFA HASSONA’S series ‘Palestinian

Right of Return Protests’ stops you in your

tracks, and is a brutal documentation of the

fi ghting in the Gaza Strip. This image won

third place in the Professional Documentary

category of the Sony World Photography

Awards 2019, and captures a moment when

BIG

picture

The story behind Mustafa

Hassona’s emotional image

The week in brief, edited by Geoff Harris

New app identifi es plants and animals

Love taking plant, animal and bird shots, but sometimes wonder

what the species is? An app for iPhone and iPad now identifies the

exact species from your image, as well as offers other interactive

features. The app ‘Seek’, created by a group of nature enthusiasts

called iNaturlist, is free to download via the Apple App Store.

Panasonic S1 on borrowed time

Fancy trying out Panasonic’s Lumix S series mirrorless cameras?

The company has set up a loan scheme letting professional

photographers apply to borrow a camera and lenses for free for up

to two weeks. The offer applies to the S1R and S1 cameras and

S Pro 50mm F1.4, 24-105mm F4 Macro, and S Pro 70-200mm F

lenses. See campaigns.panasonic.eu/lumix-s-loan-scheme-uk.

Sony contest opens

Entries for the 13th Sony World

Photography Awards are now

open; it’s free to enter at http://www.

worldphoto.org. There’s a new

Environment category in the

Professional contest and a new

format for the Youth contest.

The latest recipients of the 2019

Sony Grant were announced,

including Alys Tomlinson, and a

global tour of winning images

from last year’s contest kicked

off in Japan on 1 June.

Last call for Environmental POTY 2019

You have until 30 June to enter the Environmental Photographer of

the Year 2019 contest. Organisers are seeking ‘photographs which

will inspire individuals and corporations... to take serious action

towards being more sustainable.’ Submit up to 10 photos for free

via http://www.ciwem.org/awards/environmental-photographer-of-the-

year. Chinmoy Biswas was 2018’s winner with ‘Dryness’ (see above).

A faster Affi nity

Serif has updated its Affinity 1.

image editor. The Mac version

gets a new memory management

system, a speed boost with

acceleration from the

computer’s GPU (graphics

processing unit) and more. Brush

operations are 10x faster, the

company claims. The revamped

memory management system for

Windows will reportedly boost

the speed of editing tasks by 3x

or 4x. See affinity.serif.com.

© ALYS TOMLINSON

© CHINMOY BISWAS, 2018, ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR