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May 9, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Happy Friday, link lovers! This week we have a local photographer explaining the use of anamorphic lenses on his blog, new local professional development workshops, Amazon patenting shooting on a white seamless, and much more!

The May APA DC featured member is Erika Nizborski, who was also an Exposed DC contest winner. She was interviewed on their blog by Jim Darling, who also happens to be a former Exposed winner.
George Steinmetz’s work is on the cover of National Geographic this month. His creation of the photos of factory farms got him arrested last year.
Kickstarter for a panoramic camera that makes images in fancy 4k resolution, called CENTR.
Local wedding photographer Sam Hurd wrote an excellent post on his blog describing how he uses an anamorphic lens. The post was later picked up by PetaPixel.
The Los Angeles Times has redesigned their photography section, and there is plenty of great work to enjoy.
In extremely weird news, Amazon has patented shooting on a white seamless background. No word yet what the estate of Richard Avedon will have to pay in royalty fees.
Interested in professional development? Local photographer E. Brady Robinson will be hosting workshops at The Fringe.
Polaroid made a camera in the 60’s called The Swinger, and fittingly the commercial is full of sexual innuendo.
The title of this article says more than enough, “Man Photoshops Himself Into Girlfriend’s Childhood Photographs.” An alternative title could have been, “How To Quickly Make Yourself Into An Ex-Boyfriend.”
Who controls an artist’s work after their death? The Wall Street Journal looks at the posthumous production of prints from negatives created by Vivian Maier and Garry Winogrand.
Photographer Sophie Gamand takes a hard look at one of the most humiliating part of a dogs life, bath time.
The Calumet website is back online. Calumet was sold to C & A Marketing, and you can read some legal documents about the case here, and here. You can also read the perspective of a college student struggling with the loss of the camera store.
And finally, the Philadelphia zoo creating a cat walk crossing that allows tigers to leave their exhibits and travel across the zoo can only mean one thing – Road Trip!

Friday Links

May 2, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Lots of local happenings this week – an interview with Rebecca Drobis, a photo exhibit at the Newseum, Slideluck DC is looking for submissions, the Leica Store DC announced their monthly photo winner, and much more – dig in!

Larissa Leclair, from the local Indie Photobook Library is going to teach master photobook making classes. There is no sign up yet, but you can join the IPL mailing list for more details (bottom of the page).
A photo from the world’s largest pinhole camera went on display this week at National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center. The massive print is a “gelatin silver photograph that measures 31 feet high and 107 feet wide.”
Will Calumet be returning? An announcement from C&A Marketing, the company which purchased all of their assets, leaves some hope open.
While this tumblr may be a little old, the advice still remains valid. Shit My Photography Professor Says has such gems as, “Don’t take pictures in graveyards. What are you even doing there? Life takes place somewhere between the beach and the graveyard.”
Local photographer Rebecca Drobis was interviewed by The Image, Deconstructed about her work on the Blackfeet Reservation in Heart Butte, Montana.
Slideluck DC is looking for new submissions for their 9th show, which will be held on June 21. The theme of the show is Solstice, and work should be submitted by May 22.
“The photojournalism world makes such a song and dance about ‘giving people a voice’, not least poor and war ravaged women and black people but what does that really mean if the industry is so ambivalent to passive sexism/racism?” Interesting comments on conflicts of interest and diversity in the World Press Photo awards.
Narrative is holding a story telling contest that includes photo essays.
Leica Store DC’s latest Oskar Barnack Wall winner is Lawrence Solum with his photograph titled “The Wash House.”
The Telegraph has a beautiful collection of David Yarrow’s wildlife work.
The Newseum will be hosting some of the winners of the Pictures of the Year International contest. The images will be on exhibit until September 1.
Women Photojournalists of Washington will hold their monthly Happy Hour next Thursday.
The Buenos Aires Zoo is showing off its latest brood of white tigers – Bengal triplets with piercing blue eyes and a playful attitude.

Friday Links

April 25, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

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Happy Friday! Our links this week include more awards for Tyler Hicks, the National Zoo trying to help Sumatran Tigers, great photos of local food, and a possible ban on overly photoshopped images.

This week Lytro announced the Illum, a new light-field camera. Light-field (or plenoptic) cameras capture all of the light in a given scene, allowing you to make significant changes to photos, like choosing different focus points and even perspective, after you’ve taken them.
Local photographer, and two-time Exposed winner, Rey Lopez has mouth-watering images of chef Matt Adler making gnocchi on Eater DC.
After years of clarifying that she was Indian, and not Native American, photographer Annu Palakunnathu Matthew uses the diptych to compare and contrast her Indian cultural heritage to Native American Indians.
Zoey and Jasper – a rescue dog and her little boy. Because adorable.
Terry Richardson was accused again this week of sexual harassment, after a model shared a message he allegedly sent offering a Vogue photo shoot in exchange for sex. This is not the first time someone has stepped forward with accusations against Richardson, with some of those including sexual assault. Can the photo world agree to be done with this predator already?
Photographer Aline Smithson has made all of your doll nightmares a reality.
Tyler Hicks won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award this week for his story on the 2013 attack on a Nairobi mall. Hicks also won the Pulitzer Prize for the story, and shared behind the scenes information about it with NPR.
Photographer Rohan Anderson photographed a band for a publication, and the band subsequently used his photo without permission. The band did not like his request for payment, and responded like whiney five-year olds. After the story went viral, the band paid up. No word on if they apologized for posting the photo using a pseudo HDR filter.
Photographer Zahir Batin has revealed the private lives of Storm Troopers. This of course includes waiting at the AT-AT stop and feeding baby chickens.
We can agree that excessive photoshopping is terrible, but do we need a law banning it? And if we are banning things, can we at least start with selective color images?
The Smithsonian has created the Endangered Song project to raise money for the 400 remaining Sumatran Tigers, who are at risk of going extinct. They printed 400 lathe-cut records of a song by the band Portugal. The Man, which will degrade over time and ‘go extinct’ unless it’s digitally reproduced. You can see more tiger photos on the Zoo’s Instagram page.

Friday Links

April 18, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Being a panda is hard work by Brian Allen

Plenty of links to love this week: A new photo blog by an Exposed DC photographer, the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners, and the VP joins Instagram. Enjoy!

UPDATED: The film Finding Vivian Maier will be playing for at least a week ~~for one night~~ at the E Street Cinema starting April 25. (Thanks to Ron Freudenheim for the correction!)
A photo shoot of Claire Shipman and Jay Carney in Washingtonian Mom caught some flack online for the excessive us of photoshop.
Jeff Bauman, the man who was featured in one of the most iconic photos in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, wrote an op-ed piece about the photograph.
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced this week, including Taylor Hicks of the New York Times for Breaking News Photography, for his coverage of a terrorist attack in a mall in Kenya, and Josh Haner, also of the New York Times, for Feature Photography.
Our own Sanjay Suchak has a new photo blog that you should check out.
The NoMa Parks Foundation is holding an Underpass Competition to find artists or architects interested in re-designing several underpass areas. It would be cool to see work from photographers installed in these public spaces.
Photographer Peter Macdiarmid has overlayed photos from World War I over modern photos of Europe.
Asher Svidensky’s photo essay on a 13-year old Mongolian girl training to hunt with eagles is worth seeing.
Joe Biden joined Instagram this week.
When you stake out an airport and take photos of planes taking off and they go viral, you may hear from airport authorities. This happened to photographer Mike Kelley, but in a way you would not expect.
And finally, two mistreated German circus tigers are being saved and transported to a zoo in the UK. The tigers were reportedly happy to hear that they were not going to Copenhagen.

Friday Links

April 11, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

This week’s exciting fare includes developments in Calumet’s bankruptcy case, lunar eclipse photo ops, the death of the White House selfie, and the announcement of an enormous photo exhibition space.

In huge museum news, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced Wednesday “the creation of the John and Lisa Pritzker Center for Photography, which will be the largest exhibition space for photography and among the most advanced photographic arts centers of any art museum in the United States.“
100 photographs taken by Irving Penn have been donated to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by his foundation. They’ll go on display in a retrospective opening in 2015.
Local photographer Susana Raab is documenting life East of the River: “Hidden behind the public face of its great monuments and political imbroglios, lies another Washington which situates the District of Columbia as the United States’ poorest state, second only to Mississippi.” This work can be seen on her website, as well as in a photo gallery on POLITICO.
Is there hope for a return of Calumet Photographic? Possibly. CalPhotoUS is buying up some of their assets, but there is no word yet on whether any stores will reopen.
Stars and Stripes has excellent photographs in their Military Photographer of the Year awards. You know you are in for some lovely images when the first of the series resembles the Pieta.
It is not too late to use this, but you should act fast. A Photographer’s Guide to the Cherry Blossoms, including locations that are not on the National Mall by Kat Forder.
Photographer Robert Dawson has been photographing public libraries across America for 18 years, and has released a book of the images. The photographs say so much about our culture.
Tickets are now available to the opening reception of Critical Exposure’s 9th annual exhibit of youth photography. The event is May 21, from 6:00-8:30pm.
Smithsonian Magazine announced the winners of their 11th annual photo contest.
On April 15 the tax man and the moon man will collide in a lunar eclipse. If you’re going to photograph it, check out our Night Sky Photography for Beginners guide.
“If you’re modeling light settings and defining the meter readings about a balanced image against white skin, the contours and shape of a white face, you’ve immediately erased 70% of the world’s population.” Interesting analysis of the racial bias built into camera and film technology.
Photographers – the industry may be shrinking, but know that you can always find work as a meerkat lookout post.
Photos of some the dogs Michel Vick owned and tortured. These are among a handful of the dogs who have been rehabilitated, and are in loving homes.
Oh Big Papi. You may be one of the greatest hitters of all time, but you may go down as the man who killed the White House selfie.
Ectoplasm and spirit photography? We don’t know either, but the results are pretty cool.
He may be Mr. Spock to most of us, but Leonard Nimoy is also a photographer.
The InFocus Project, based in Montgomery County, brought their autistic adult students to the Tidal Basin this week to photograph the cherry blossoms. You can see their work on their website.
The Library of Congress celebrated Eadweard Muybridge’s birthday yesterday, and showed off the work of the early photographer.
Public “surprised” at the sight of a tiger being walked on a rope leash in Xuzhou, China. We might have chosen a different word.