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Ep.329 - Face Recognition, Centrism & Sebastião Salgado
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In a week where:
- The UK hands Chagos Islands back to Mauritius.
- Sacha Jenkins, Director and Hip-Hop Journalist, dies aged 53.
- Russia ramps up on Ukraine, targeting Kyiv with a large drone strike.
- It's been five years since the murder of George Floyd.
- Nearly 50 injured as car ploughs into crowd at Liverpool victory parade.
In Society: (8:53) In 2019 I talked about Live Facial Recognition being trialled in select towns/cities. Now we're at a place where the police are using it freely and will soon become commonplace. (Article By Daniel Boffey & Mark Wilding)
In Politics: (23:29) Let's learn about Centrism and how it could be posited that it's the worst political ideology. (Article By Johnny Silvercloud)
In Film: (38:26) My knowledge of African film is very surface level, so I thought I would learn about a significant period in African film: The 80s. (Article By Tambay A. Obenson)
Lastly, In Photography: (54:12) Legendary Photographer Sebastião Salgado died 81 in the past week, which brought me to read a piece on him from when he turned 80, contextualising his decades-long legacy as one of the world's premier Photojournalists. (Article By Andrei Netto)
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