New York By 2050, demographers say, the U.S. population will be almost one-third Latino. El Museo del Barrio—founded in 1969 and located at 104th Street on the north end of Fifth Avenue’s “Museum Mile”—bills itself as “the nation’s leading Latino and Latin American cultural institution.” The museum’s current exhibition, “Estamos […]
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How to shoot a Christmas family portrait at home with your camera
If you can’t get to a professional studio for your holiday portrait this year, all you need is a camera — even a smartphone — to do it yourself. Turn those Christmas lights into a blurry light effect known as bokeh simply by manipulating the camera settings and positioning your […]
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The Building Blocks of Artistic Portrait Photography
Of the many creative photographic genres, it is perhaps portrait photography where two camps—the representative and the artistic—can be most clearly observed. Whilst the former requires context through captions and backstory to elevate it, in the later, the absence of such requires creative aptitude. Attempting to merge both camps in […]
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‘Cuties’ isn’t what I expected. It’s a powerful portrait of female rage
Médina El Aidi-Azouni, left, and Fathia Youssouf in a scene from “Cuties.” (Netflix) Well, I finally watched that movie everyone is talking about. No, not “Tenet,” which did not manage to single-handedly revive the film industry from its pandemic-induced coma in a week. I watched “Cuties,” Maïmouna Doucouré’s film about […]