Heather Goss, Author at Exposed DC

Friday Links: October 30, 2015

October 30, 2015 By Heather Goss

Halloween decor, Mount Pleasant, Washington 2014 by brunofish

Save the date for our next session of free photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC this November! Take lessons in food photography, street photography, Holga photography, and photographing airplanes from Gravelly Point. Learn more about it at our next monthly happy hour on November 10. Keep up with all our upcoming events (including the impending 10th anniversary photo contest and exhibition) with our newsletter.
Artomatic 2015 opens tonight with a huge building full of photography and other art. This year’s location is in Hyattsville, a short walk from the New Carrollton metro stop.
FotoWeekDC starts November 7. See the whole events calendar here.
Dog photobombs couple’s engagement shoot in the best way possible: “He’s a show stopper.”
Before her death at just 22 years old, Francesca Woodman became one of the most seductive and haunting photographers of all time.
“But [Mayor Bowser’s] first major arts decision, and perhaps the one that will most profoundly affect culture in the District for years to come — is bizarre and unaccountable.”
Magnum Photos has partnered with UN Women to present images on the 15th anniversary of the UN Security Council resolution that recognized the critical importance of women’s participation in peacemaking and peacebuilding.
Carlos Barria photographed a person born in each year China’s one-child policy was in existence, from a man born in 1979 to baby Jin Yanxi born in 2014.
The crazy world of flavorings, colorings, sweetners, preservatives, and thickeners — some of modern America’s favorite foods taken apart in a series of still-life images.
The Atacama desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth, is awash in pink flowers after crazy El Nino rains.
There’s a pumpkin in every pot for zoo animals this time of year.

Free Photography Classes with Knowledge Commons DC & Exposed DC – November Session

October 26, 2015 By Heather Goss

Students at September's Cleared for Takeoff class at Gravelly Point, taught by Chris Williams. Photo by Angela Napili. — Students at the 2015 Cleared for Takeoff class at Gravelly Point, taught by Chris Williams. Photo by Angela Napili

Ready for another round of free Knowledge Commons DC photography classes sponsored by Exposed DC? We asked some of our favorite, talented photographers to teach a one-week session of fun, informative classes November 14-21. Mark your calendar now, and we’ll remind you when registration opens up on November 6.

Here’s the line-up:

Saturday, 11/14, 1:30 p.m.: A Feast for the Eyes – Food Photography at Birch & Barley with Samer Farha
Sunday, 11/15, 3 p.m.: Taking Photography to the Streets with Mukul Ranjan
Tuesday, 11/17, 6:30 p.m.: Cleared for Takeoff – Photographing Airplanes at Gravelly Point with Chris Williams
Saturday, 11/21, 12 p.m.: Plastic Photography – The Art of the Holga by Sarah Hodzic

Friday Links: October 23, 2016

October 23, 2015 By Heather Goss

The much-anticipated Irving Penn exhibit opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum today, with events all day including lectures, tours, book signings, and an After Hours party.
The eminently photogenic DC Tweed Ride is this Sunday.
The Obama administration said on Monday that it would require drone owners to register their unmanned aircraft as part of an effort to curtail rogue drone flights that pose a danger to commercial aircraft and crowded public venues. Yeah, good luck with that.
Italian photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli talks to the Washington Post about his work covering the smuggling capital of Libya.
The many, many faces of Hillary Clinton at the Benghazi hearing.
See the best entries in the 2015 National Geographic photo contest and add your own.
FotoWeekDC kicks off November 7. Check out their calendar for all the events.
These amazingly small concrete homes are like Japanese time capsules.
In the hills of the Catalan Pyrenees, aspiring pastors live among their livestock in the “School of Shepherds.”
We’re enjoying these silly “photo invasions” by illustrator Lucas Levitan.
Baby Masai giraffe makes his first official outing at the Los Angeles zoo.

Friday Links: September 25, 2015

September 25, 2015 By Heather Goss

Last Pope merchandise by Victoria Pickering

Local photographer Bill Putnam went to Iraq first as a soldier and later returned as an embedded civilian photojournalist. He recently started a blog looking back at his time there.
Like a rooftop garden in an overcrowded financial district, Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit is an unexpected urban oasis whose narrow escape from development has brought marshes, lagoons and forests to the centre of Canada’s largest city.
“With my photography, I want to step away from the photo-saturated society we now live in. The magic has been lost: no one makes anything by hand any more.” Alice Cazenave’s remarkable portrait on a leaf.
Death via selfie is getting really real, guys.
Get your submissions ready and your hammer and nails out: Artomatic returns this fall.
The Action/2015 project has brought ten photographers together to offer their perspectives on equality, with subjects ranging from the Awá tribe in Brazil to factory workers in Wisconsin.
“I want these images to show that behind the tattoos and the media stereotype there is a human being.” Adam Hinton’s portraits of imprisoned members of El Salvador’s MS-13 gang.
Photographer Jason Koxvold spent three days in June at Bagram for Black-Water, a series exploring what it means to be perpetually at war in the Middle East.
The New York Times dives into the murky privacy waters of brands capitalizing on your social media posts.
Photographer Melodie McDaniel searches for identity through the underbelly of faith, race, and the American pulpit.
“I would get many a funny look from passers-by wondering what on earth this guy with a camera was doing photographing a car park in the middle of a rainy and cold Manchester.” Phil Burrowes images capture the architecture of car parks across Britain.
The Detroit Zoo debuted its baby red panda, Tofu, this week.

Friday Links: September 11, 2015

September 11, 2015 By Heather Goss

On Thursday, NASA’s New Horizons mission team published new and spectacular pictures of Pluto taken during its fly-by in July.
National Geographic gives Fox control of its media assets in $725 million deal creating new for-profit business.
Getty Images and Instagram announced three winners of their inaugural $10,000 grant to continue documenting stories from underrepresented communities.
David Maurice Smith’s tells the story of a turning point in the refugee crisis in Hungary when hundreds of men, women and children walked from Keleti station in Budapest to the Austrian border.
“Les Danseurs” is the result of a year that photographer Matthew Brookes spent with professional male ballet dancers in Paris. Brookes asked the dancers to think of falling birds when they posed for him.
Go take your camera out to a ton of local festival and events this weekend, including the DC State Fair, Columbia Heights Day (my favorite capybara petting opportunity of the year), Adams Morgan Day, the 17th Street Festival, the Nation’s Triathlon, and Snallygaster. Also Madonna is playing the Verizon Center on Saturday night, so you might find some spectacular 80s-era gear in line.
On the evening of September 9, 2015 Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history. The BBC presents an image from the archives of the Press Association from every year of her reign.
In his new book “00:00.00” Edgar Martins photographed a BMW car plant in Munich apparently at a complete standstill. The crash test center images are particularly creepy.
It’s the Maryland wedding photographer versus the DJ in #Weddingphotogate.
Wired does a public service reporting on the Adventure Cats of Instagram.