The Four Corners Project is a free tool for adding context to a photograph online. Small markers sit in the four corners of the image, and clicking each corner opens more information about the picture.
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The idea came from the writer and educator Fred Ritchin, who presented it at World Press Photo in Amsterdam in 2004. It was built from 2015 by the International Center of Photography, the World Press Photo Foundation and Newcastle University’s Open Lab, and announced in April 2016.
The four corners hold the backstory of the photograph, its image context (for example related pictures), links, and the caption, credit and code of ethics. Ritchin called it “the first major advance in providing such contextualization since the caption.”
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