Friday Links: September 23, 2016

You can now go see the new baby orangutan at the National Zoo. Redd, born to mom Batang and dad Kyle last week, is “thriving.” We look forward to your family portraits!
Feeling inspired by the change in seasons? Sign up for one of the many classes offered by the Capital Photography Center. Street, sports, night, and family photography classes start as early as this Saturday — even winery photography!
This Saturday, see work by six distinguished members of the Exposure Group African American Photographers Association (event isn’t listed) in Brookland at the new Tolbert & Bing Gallery, 716 Monroe St NE, 6 to 9 p.m.
Spend some time this weekend with the New York Times Magazine’s stunning Voyages issue. Six photographers take you on journeys through Ethiopia, Albania, Australia, Finland, Peru, and Spain.
Photos and links no longer count in Twitter’s 140 character limit. Make your five extra words count! Or not. It is Twitter after all. (Follow us here!)
On Monday night a disgusting tweet by Donald Trump’s son comparing Syrian refugees to a bowl of Skittles went viral. Among Junior’s many and varied insults here, the photo is copyrighted and was used without permission from the photographer: a Turkish refugee who’s now a British citizen.
With an inaugural gift of $400,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR has established a fund for “equipment, training and support for international coverage and video journalism at NPR” dedicated to David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna, the photo journalist and interpreter who were killed while on assignment in Afghanistan in June.
The New Yorker has a story about “a medical secretary in Paris who persuaded scores of renowned photographers to take her picture.”
More police shootings are now being caught on camera, but they aren’t being released to the public.
Photographer Gerrard Gethings takes these satisfying portraits of “Ordinary Creatures” and discusses how he does it (extremely amusingly) at the Guardian.