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Friday Links: September 4, 2015

September 3, 2015 By James Calder

Peach by Jeffrey Morris
Peach by Jeffrey Morris

Thursday, September 10, 6pm-8pm, head over to the Leica Store for our first ever combination Happy Hour + Fire Sale! Need more art for your walls? How about some early holiday gift shopping? We’re offloading all the leftover framed prints from Exposed shows past, along with a set from Jim Darling. All pieces are priced at an unbeatable $50! Oh, and there’ll be free beer and wine (while supplies last). We’ll see you there!

  • After 35 years of photographing presidential primaries, Jim Cole talks about how to get the shot.
  • Photographer Meike Nixdorf hacks Google Earth to create stunning mountain shots.
  • Mapbox shares high- to ultra-high-res aerial photography of New Zealand that’s so good you can see the individual colors of vegetables in a farmers market bin.
  • “Occupied Pleasures,” a photobook featuring everyday images of joy of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, didn’t make it to the book launch party because they were detained at customs in the Tel Aviv airport.
  • It’s ‘National Treasure’ in real life: How photography is used to reveal secrets of the past.
  • Eager to change the narrative of what he considered “insincere” press coverage of the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, photographer William Sands spent several months in the Gilmor Homes housing complex in Baltimore where Gray once lived. Sands also spent an extensive period of time with close friends of Gray to more closely examine the protests and their lives and community in the wake of Gray’s death.
  • Next stop, Siberia! The strange and beautiful world of Soviet bus stops.
  • The beautiful old signs of Paris are as elegant as the city itself. Louise Fili documents them for posterity’s sake in her upcoming book.
  • From 5,000 feet, Australia’s magnificent salt fields reflected in a maze of ethereal blues.
  • Images of Tokyo’s much-loved Hotel Okura over the years, whose main building will soon be torn down for redevelopment.
  • Wrestling komodo dragons and thirsty squirrels are among the creatures captured on camera by the 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalists.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: 2015 wildlife finalists, aerial, bus stops, Freddie Gray, google hack, hotel, Israel, mountains, Palestine, Paris, primaries, salt fields, ultra-high-res, William Sands

Friday Links: August 21, 2015

August 21, 2015 By James Calder

Ducks by Angela Pan
Ducks by Angela Pan

We’re planning our next photography session with Knowledge Commons DC. If you’re interested in teaching a class, please let us know!

  • Time Magazine made a nice list of Instagram accounts to follow in all 50 states. D.C. gets the shaft, as usual, as pointed out by of the many local Instagrammers worth following, Jim Darling.
  • 7:00 p.m. today is the deadline for Leica Store DC’s third annual juried exhibit.
  • The 2015 FotoWeek DC photo competition is open.
  • Manipulation has become so rampant in the World Press Photo contest – it could not award a 3rd prize in sports last year because everything besides the first and second place winners had been disqualified – the organization is soliciting feedback on how to revise the rules and jurying procedures for the 2016 contest.
  • Photography magazine PDN dedicated its entire September issue to women, inspiring the Washington Post’s In Sight blog to feature 10 photographers that their photo editors think you should know about, some of whom are featured in PDN’s issue.
  • Radio station WNYC noticed a lack of stock photography that truly captured the complex nature of a New Yorker. So they created “35 Stock Photos of Real New Yorkers Doing Things.”
  • Sometimes the best view in the house is from backstage. Klaus Frahm’s stark series “The Fourth Wall: Stages” offers an unusual perspective of empty theaters across Germany.
  • At the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, black American cowboys are bucking the trend and riding for their forgotten legacy.
  • Photographer accidentally lets loose a tiger during a photo shoot in Detroit.
  • Polar bears frolic adorably in a field of pink flowers.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: black rodeo, FotoWeekDC, Jim Darling, Klaus Frahm, Leica Store DC, manipulation, New Yorkers, PDN, polar bears, Stock photography, tiger, Time, women photographers

Friday Links: August 7, 2015

August 7, 2015 By James Calder

its a staircase with a skylight at the top by Jill Slater
its a staircase with a skylight at the top by Jill Slater

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for 6pm Tuesday, August 11 when photographers and photography lovers will gather at Right Proper Brewing for our monthly DC Photography Happy Hour.

  • Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has opened its 3rd annual photo contest. Send them your best military and civilian airplane and spacecraft images and your impressive astrophotography by November 15.
  • Investigative photojournalist Ruben Espinosa was found shot in Mexico City last week. Free speech advocacy group Article 19 told The Guardian that “the killing of Espinosa marked a new level of violence against journalists in Mexico.”
  • National Geographic has announced the winners of its 2015 Traveler Photo Contest.
  • During the almost two decades that Nathan Benn was a staff photographer at National Geographic, he estimates he shot around 1,000 rolls of 35mm film a year. Yet, he probably saw about 10 percent of those photos.
  • After 85 years, Blacks Photography is closing down across Canada. This radio documentary about the company and the people who worked there is excellent. Meanwhile, Lens Rentals Canada is also calling it quits.
  • Last year Washington Post staff photojournalist Jahi Chikwendiu spent several days and nights documenting the scenes of protest and face-offs between law enforcement and local residents in Ferguson, MO after the death of Michael Brown. A year later, Washington Post photojournalist Jabin Botsford retraced Chikwendiu’s steps and photographs to document the many ways the community of Ferguson has changed, and, in some cases, stayed the same.
  • 70 years ago this week the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 of its 350,000 citizens. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Photographer Issei Kato has paired archive images of the ruins with how they look today.
  • Survivors of the atomic bomb attacks in Japan talk about their experiences, and their fears about the government’s plans to reboot the country’s nuclear reactors taken offline after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
  • As a huge and controversial process of redevelopment sweeps across south London’s Brixton neighborhood, photographer Georgios Makkas captures the railway-arch businesses fearing for their future amid potential rent hikes.
  • An ambitious new survey of photography in Cuba aims to challenge long-held notions about how the island has been portrayed.
  • Google and MIT researchers demo an algorithm that lets you take clear photos through reflections. Astonishing.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Air & Space Magazine, atomic bomb, Blacks Photography, Brixton, Cuba, Ferguson, Fukushima, Japan, Nathan Benn, National Geographic, Ruben Espinosa, technology

Friday Links: July 24, 2015

July 24, 2015 By James Calder

Hemlines by Mike Maguire
Hemlines by Mike Maguire
  • Leica Store DC will present a photography slideshow projection in Blagden Alley showcasing a series of emerging and established local photographers, Thursday, July 30, 8 to 10 p.m.
  • This is your last weekend to see “In the Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography” at the National Gallery of Art.
  • Kyle Cassidy took portraits of the scientists who helped make those groundbreaking Pluto photos possible.
  • Want to work as the photojournalist for America’s Test Kitchen?
  • Yannis Behrakis documents the plight of pensioners impacted by Greece’s financial crisis.
  • In 1949, LIFE went behind the scenes to document the fashionable, high-flying lifestyle of the independent women at “the home of the American circus” in Sarasota, Florida.
  • Here’s what happens when a celeb says no to a nude shoot.
  • Michael Borek’s penchant for old and quiet places took him to a lace factory where generations of immigrants toiled, including Hillary Rodham Clinton’s grandfather.
  • The neurotic, sexy, and gross world of food-eating competitions.
  • Flickr is bringing back “Pro” options: benefits include analytics and no ads.
  • A manatee was spotted in the Chesapeake Bay.

 

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: abandoned lace factory, circus women, Flickr, food eating contest, Greek pensioners, job vacancy, LIFE, manatee, National Gallery of Art, outdoor slideshow, scientists

Friday Links: July 10, 2015

July 10, 2015 By James Calder

Food? by Rob Cannon
Food? by Rob Cannon
  • Artomatic has found a 90,000 square foot space in Prince George’s County for this fall. Get a preview of the space tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
  • NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is about to give humanity our first up-close look at Pluto when it whizzes by next Tuesday, July 14, after nearly 10 years in space. The first high-res images will reach Earth around 9:30pm Eastern that night, but for now we can enjoy this spectacular view of Pluto and its moon Charon taken on July 8.
  • You can now view a large collection of OCR scanned Leica Photography magazines on Google Drive; nearly 70 are available, back to 1949.
  • Humans of New York has 10 times more followers on Facebook than the most-followed newspaper has on all social media combined. But when does the personal touch that makes him so popular reveal an uncomfortable lack of accountability that a real photojournalist would have?
  • Enter Sustainable DC’s “DC Climate Photo Contest” by July 12.
  • Stunning images of the survival techniques and defensive adaptations of caterpillars by New England-based naturalist and photographer Samuel Jaffe.
  • Russian Photographer Ralph Mirebs discovered the sad ruins of the Soviet space shuttle program at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
  • And if sad images of abandoned places are your thing, but you like an added touch of creepiness, these photos of abandoned amusement parks should be just your cup of tea.
  • Decked out in natty suits and flowing dresses, locals and visitors from across Central and South America travelled to attend the 9th International Festival Danzon in Havana, Cuba.
  • Across five years, five countries and 11 music festivals, Australian photographer Nic Bezzina has documented one constant – the raw emotion expressed by festival-goers.
  • Dronestagram’s photo contest winners soar to “change the way we see the world.”
  • Your Instagram photos are now being stored at a higher resolution.
  • Selfie-stick + lightning = Darwin Awards nominee?

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: abandoned, amusement parks, Artomatic, astronomy, caterpillars, Cuba, dance, drones, ethics, Humans of New York, Instagram, leica, music festivals, new horizons, pluto, selfie stick, Soviet space shuttle, Sustainable DC

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