Heather Goss, Author at Exposed DC

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.

Friday Links: August 28, 2015

August 28, 2015 By Heather Goss

County fair time is my favorite, both for attending and for all the great photo opportunities. Keep ’em coming. Save the date for September 10, our next happy hour, which will be a fire sale of prints leftover from 10 years of Exposed DC photography shows, held at the Leica Store.

No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news about the Roanoke, Virginia CBS reporter Alison Parker, and cameraman, videographer, and photographer Adam Ward, who were shot to death by a disgruntled former station employee on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, police forced BBC reporters to delete footage and threatened to confiscate their cameras as they covered the Virginia shootings.
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, Carlos Barria used the prints of photos he took in 2005 to find the same locations he documented at the time. Barria overlaid the prints to contrast the inundated New Orleans then with the city today.
The Baltimore Sun put together a great photo set about the Cotopaxi eruption in Ecuador.
Stunning images of athletes in motion at this year’s IAAF World Championships competition in Beijing.
CNNMoney has published Mary Ellen Mark’s last assignment, Picture This: New Orleans, before she died last May.
Rudi Meisel was one of the very few West German photographers allowed to cross the Berlin Wall into East Germany. Despite the best efforts of censors, he captured authentic street life in the GDR. A new exhibition reveals that East and West Germans weren’t so different after all.
As Gustavo Jononovich documented, the bounty of natural resources in Latin America can sustain a community, but also destroy it through pollution and overdevelopment.
Time Magazine pontificates on The Next Revolution in Photography.
Diverting your attention from Mei Xiang’s mixed news this week, it turns out baby pandas get even cuter when you put them in baskets.