Call of Duty Trivializes War Photography

In a few days, Activision will launch the 18th installment of Call of Duty, returning players to the Second World War. To market the game’s new photography mode, two conflict photographers were immersed inside the virtual world and tasked with photographing it. The resulting commercial portrays mankind’s most brutal act of self-destruction as little more than a game of football.

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Who Was the First Global Social Media Travel Infuencer?

You take photos, you write books, you’re published in weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines, and travel the world with the sole purpose of… traveling. You sound like one of the early social media influencers of the 2010s who was “living the dream,” constantly on the road, distributing a drip of photos and articles to the travel-enthused general public. However, it’s 1888, and your name is Frank Carpenter.

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