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• The 2022 6th Annual PenCraft Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony for Literary Excellence was held on April 3rd, 2023 at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Lake Charles, LA.
• HOUSTON, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The prestigious 6th Annual PenCraft Book Awards took place on April 3, 2023, at the luxurious Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Lake Charles, LA.
• David Hearne, Editor in Chief of the PenCraft Book Awards organization, stated, "Our PenCraft Awards staff take great pride in recognizing and celebrating the remarkable accomplishments of our winning authors.
• For more information on this year's PenCraft Book Award Dinner and Ceremony, please visit the official PenCraft Award Site PenCraftAward.com or call 409-656-4625

• The online venue opens today, where you can enjoy selected short films from world until July 10th.
• In the Japan section of the official competition leading to the Academy Awards nomination, short films featuring actors turned directors as Tao Tsuchiya is among the nominees.
• We will deliver a lineup that brings together the world's "now" unique to short films.
• Experience film festival projects that UNLOCK for the future, such as creator's asset management platform "LIFE LOG BOX".

• In 2022 he combined these skills to introduce a newsletter, Tender Photo, sent to subscribers twice a week.
• It has since become an important platform for African photographers, writers, critics and curators.
• Published on Substack, it has become so widely popular that it was a featured publication on the online newsletter support site.

What was the impulse to start a forum like Tender Photo?

• For the previous seven years, I had written essays – or stories – that foregrounded my voice as a writer of criticism.
• Put simply, it was an attempt to find a new path in my work with photographs.

Why was it necessary to generate a conversation between a critic and the photographers?

• The necessity I felt was to be a middleman in the exchange between a photographer and the photograph they took.
• How could I get the photographer to speak freely and without gobbledygook on the image in question?

How did you decide on the format?

• At this point – nearing the 60th edition – I have chosen to publish only one photograph per feature.
• But in the first year of the newsletter, I included two other photographs.

You recently introduced guests who write about some of the photos you’ve written about. Why?

• First, I knew from the start that by the end of a year I would have a decent number of images that spoke to each other in unexpected ways.
• I am moved by the commentary written by the guests, the depth and acuity, and surprised to note the photographs that have recurred in the selections.

What is the state of art criticism and photographic writing on the continent?

• It is difficult for me to speak in any generalising manner about the state of photography criticism, mainly because I am often wary of sweeping, continental assessments.
• I prefer to work with a sense of urgency on a personal level: that is, what do I feel is required of me, given my training, inclinations, and gifts?

Is Tender Photo an agenda-setting platform?

My goal is to present photographs by artists born or based on the African continent; the agenda ends there. If I can point to the diversity of the work produced on the continent – geographically and stylistically – I might manage to challenge reductive epistemologies.

Do you mean views that reduce African photography by lumping it together? And often this is from a white gaze. How can our generation deal with this?

• I suspect there is a greater number of photographers who identify as African or Black than at any point in the history of photography.
• Museums in the west are now routinely organising surveys of photography from the continent, with an array of forms and subject matter on display.

What is the end game for Tender Photo? A book? Exhibition? Archive? Web platform?

All these options you mention are on the table. While I am deeply grateful for the reception the newsletter has gotten, my obligation is to consistency, and to unhurried work. You’ll see.

• J-Squared’s flagship product, the FALC-20, provides AI inferencing performance of up to 64 TOPS and can be populated with 1 to 4 Blaize® Xplorer™ X1600E EDSFF Small Form Factor accelerator cards.
• “Blaize made a great strategic decision in developing a version of their solution on an EDSFF card,” said Andrew Woollard, from J-Squared’s CTO Office.
• Integrating this into the FALC-20 design, has enabled AI acceleration and storage to be interchangeable.
• “J-Squared’s FALC-20 provides AI acceleration powered by the Xplorer X1600E EDSFF Small Form Factor Accelerator, ideal for computer vision applications and AI inferencing solutions for edge use cases,” said Dinakar Munagala, CEO and Co-founder of Blaize.