Meaghan Gay, Author at Exposed DC

Friday Links

October 4, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

There are so many great links this week, let’s just jump right in.

Halloween is around the corner, so these images of petrified animals are appropriate and terrifying.
The National Gallery may be closed, but the NPR story on Charles Marville’s photographs of 19th Century Paris is online.
Yosemite National Park celebrated its 123rd birthday this week also by closing because of the government shutdown. In Focus ran a nice collection of historic images from the park.
After the battle between investors has been settled, the affordable art site 20×200 is returning.
The controversy surrounding the winning image of the World Press Photo Awards last year has prompted the photojournalism competition to change their rules about post processing.
Google street view can get personal. A man found a picture of his grandmother hanging out on her front porch, reading the newspaper. His grandmother died not long after that photo was taken.
A new photography blog launched this week, called FUSEVISUAL.
Need to learn how to network with other photographers? Start by being a nice person.
Having your work go viral can be a great experience for some, but a frightening experience for others. Read three very different perspectives on this modern phenomenon.
An unnamed woman in a photo from post-war New York, and what she can teach us about perception, race and class in mid-century and modern American culture.
No matter how much we love them it is a really terrible idea to keep tigers in your house.
Photo software giant Adobe was hacked last month, but revealed it this week. 2.9 million customers had their data exposed.
Edward Burtynsky’s new work is a series called Water, and documents how we are creating our own demise. So it’s light.
On an actual light note, photographer Elliott Erwitt is releasing some of his color work from his back catalog in a book appropriately named Kolor.
Photographer Jordan Matter has followed up his popular Dancers Among Us series with images of Athletes Among Us. No word yet on how many groups may be living among us.
An image of the mass burial of Titanic victims has been (please forgive me) brought back from the dead.
Let’s pretend we are the Daily Show for a minute, because this photo of Ted Cruz from photographer Jason Reed deserves a Moment of Zen.

Local Resource Guide: Printing Services

October 3, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

There comes a time in every photographer’s life when they need prints. Whether you are looking for wallet sized retail prints of your Instagram sunset photos, or fine art gallery quality prints of your photos from the Australian outback, there are printers in the local area that can help you. There are also several locations locally that process film.

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In Frame: September 30, 2013

September 30, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

This photograph from John Ulaszek is all about the timing. The skateboarder’s full body is within the frame of the window, and it would look much different if his arm or leg were partially out of sight. The three levels of progressive dark to light add nicely to the layers of this image.

Friday Links

September 27, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Plenty of links for your consumption this week. We have tragic photos from the massacre in Kenya, a photographer named a genius, a Leica store contest, animals loving humans, animals behaving like humans, and humans behaving like animals.

Tyler Hicks of the New York Times entered the Westgate Mall in Nairobi after the shooting started last week. His interview and incredibly sad and terrifying images from that day are on the Times’ Lens blog. Warning, some of the images are graphic.
“I don’t think of myself as a female photojournalist. I’m a photojournalist… an individual. Part of what I bring to the table is how I interact with my subjects and obviously being a woman may impact people’s responses to me.” Women Photojournalists of Washington President, Jacquelyn Martin’s interview on the NPPA blog.
Fascinating animal photos from Mary Ellen Mark, they are part of a book that will be coming out next spring.
The Washington, D.C. Leica store has announced a monthly photo contest, so if you shoot with a Leica go join their flickr pool. I’m hoping the Leica fairy brings me an M9.
You can be a photography genius. Carrie Mae Weems has spent her long career exploring class, racism, gender roles and sexism. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship this week.
When you are a grumpy old baseball fan you don’t care why someone is getting in the way of your view, you just want them to move. You may even go to great lengths, like flipping the bird in someone’s proposal photo.
Exposed HQ is buzzing with the news that Steve Winters will be speaking at National Geographic in November to share images from his new book Tigers Forever. #Tigers4EVA
If you are heading to Charlottesville, the Fralin Museum of Art at UVA is hosting two landscape photography exhibits. One is original work of Ansel Adams, the other is work from contemporary landscape photographers.
Isn’t this part of the photographer ten commandments? Thou shall not steal another photographer’s photo and enter it in a contest. Yes, it is, right after thou shall not use HDR.
The D.C. State Fair has announced the finalists in their photography contest. Winners will be announced at the fair tomorrow.
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners have been announced. The images are beautiful, and a sad reminder that light pollution is taking away the night sky for those of us living in urban areas.
And finally, historic photographs of animals doing funny things, including a chimp feeding a baby.

Gaston Lacombe’s Captive

September 26, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Not all zoos are created equal. Admiring beautiful creatures from the animal kingdom can come at a painful cost to many animals in captivity. D.C. based photographer Gaston Lacombe has traveled to 21 zoos on five continents to put together a body of work detailing the sad, horrible conditions for many animals that are Captive.

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