From the looks of our Flickr pool, a few of you took advantage of the gorgeous weather to see the spring flowers before they leave us. Here are a few of the more lovely sights:
In Frame: April 27, 2015
Friday Links: April 17, 2015
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- Don’t get out of the Jeep on safari, even if you might get a great photo.
- LIFE Magazine’s photo essay of a working mother in the 1950s.
- Alison Nastasi had published a compilation of photos of famous artists and their cats.
- “Through the African American Lens,” culled from a Smithsonian collection, shows how photography — and black photographers — reshaped a people’s image.
- NY family loses legal battle against photographer who secretly shot them through the windows of their apartment and then put them in an exhibit.
- For three years, photographer Michael Soluri had exclusive access to the astronaut crew, labor force and tools of the shuttle mission that saved and extended the life of the Hubble Space Telescope.
- These photos could be better, but the idea and subjects here are interesting: Where did John Wilkes Booth run after he shot Lincoln? Nate Larson shows in his series “Escape Routes” that the path Booth took is a mix of truck stops, suburbs, highways, and back roads.
- The Atlantic’s CityLab writes about citizens’ rights to photograph and videotape the police, discussing some of the same cases covered in this National Press Club panel with local officials we reported on in 2013.
- “When I photograph my subjects, I do not set out to construct a narrative, though each photograph ends up marking moments and landmarks from my life.” A photo essay by Texan photographer Armando Alvarez.
- Local Craigslist ad seeks mustachioed individual to pose with turtles. I hope this is real, and that we get to see the resulting images.
- Pete Souza tweets that this is last term in the White House.
- It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Grants up to $10,000 are up for grabs.
- Imagine yourself decidedly out of town with these Icelandic mountain peaks in blue by Andy Lee.
- Sony and the Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand trained the world’s first Octographer because they’re good with animals and cameras but now how words work, I guess.
Friday Links: April 3, 2015
You have one more chance to see the 2015 Exposed DC Photography Show! Come down to Capital Fringe HQ at 1358 Florida Ave NE on Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 8 p.m. for our closing reception. This is the casual version of our opening night: Entry is free, and beverages will be available for purchase at the bar. The Exposed team and lots of the photographers will be there, so we hope you’ll swing by for a last chance to see these incredible images in person. You can buy them in person at the reception, or online through April 11 at our marketplace. At the reception you can also pick up a copy of our official exhibition program for $10, or online here, which would show your D.C. love prominently on your coffee table or make a great gift for that friend with the stars and bars tattoo.
We’ll also be hosting our monthly happy hour on Tuesday, April 7, 6 p.m., at Local 16. Photographers and photography fans are all welcome — we’ll have a space reserved for us, and $5 happy hour deals until 10 p.m.
And now let’s see what’s happening around the internet:
- As staff photographer and picture editor Jose R. Lopez retires after three decades at The New York Times, he looks back on a favorite image, where all the elements came together.
- NPR has a new feature called A Photo I Love by Claire O’Neill, combining photographs and audio. One good one explores a historic Chicago Tribune photo; another features an interview with astronaut Reid Wiseman about the photos he took and tweeted from space.
- How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group – Global Population Speak Out – thought that the simplest way would be to show people.
- Johan Bävan documents stay-at-home dads in Sweden looking after their children.
- Photographer, Philip-Lorca diCorcia discusses his ongoing project, East of Eden.
- Ugaaso Abukar Boocow has become an Instagram sensation by sending out stunning photos and videos from an unlikely place: poor, long-suffering Somalia.
- Hamid Sardar-Afkhami’s images depict the people of Mongolian Taïga and their relationship with reindeer.
- Chip Kahn was announced as the Leica Store DC Oskar Barnack Wall winner for April.
- The Library of Congress posted to Flickr a bunch of photos submitted without info, and readers helped solve the mysteries.
- Artists are using Instagram to become their own art dealers.
- Hopping on the bandwagon of making women feel ashamed of their bodies, Instagram censors photos of a fully-clothed woman on her period.
- Hi-Fructose features Silvie De Burie’s photographs of psychedelic patterns in coral reefs.
- An angry mob detained photographers in West Virginia for the crime of not being locals. The editors note is A+.
- A Navy-trained California sea lion practices attaching a clamp to a simulated mine on a dock in San Diego.
Photograph the WW2 Flyover of the National Mall on May 8 with Exposed DC!
Update: Our National Parks permit was approved! We’ll have a small tent and rest area, and Exposed magazines available for sale. We’ll have our banners out so we’ll be easy to find!
Living in the nation’s capital affords us some unique opportunities for photography. On May 8, 2015, we’re about to get a doozy. Between 30 and 60 airplanes that flew in World War II are going to do a flyover of the National Mall to celebrate the 70th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) day.
Join Exposed DC for a meetup at the Jefferson Memorial, where we’ll get an incredible view over the water of the airplanes flying at 1,000 feet over Independence Avenue. The first aircraft will fly over the Lincoln Memorial at 12:10 p.m., and the flyover is expected to last between 25 and 40 minutes.
We’ll also have a special guest: Colonel Scott Willey of the U.S. Air Force (retired). Scott Willey is a retired US Air Force colonel who has been around airplanes all his life. He is the senior docent at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center, is a volunteer member of the restoration team that works on all of the museum’s artifacts, and lectures widely on aerospace topics. In addition, he is the principal author of the nearly 1800-page set of docent guides that covers both the Mall and Udvar-Hazy displays.
You can find tons of information about the flyover at Air & Space Magazine, which is the media sponsor for the event (and where your lovely Exposed DC director is an editor), including other viewing sites if you sadly don’t wish to join us, what aircraft will be flying over, and WWII-era spotter cards you can download and print, or view directly on your smartphone.
Stay tuned for more info, including swag from Exposed DC, photography tips from our aircraft spotter experts, and more!
In Frame: March 23, 2015
We spotted some birds of a feather in the Flickr pool today, so here’s a multi-photo In Frame to kick off the week:
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Caroline Angelo‘s work is also on the cover of our 2015 Exposed DC exhibition catalog, which you can buy online for $10.
This morning a tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey flying over D.C. left windows rattling and house cats running scared. John Boggan caught this great shot.
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