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Friday Links

January 24, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

This week we have photos from STRATA, two photo editing controversies, a very angry speed skater, and tips for making your facebook photos better.

The retouched Vogue images of Lena Dunham sparked controversy after Jezebel posted the unedited images.
Photographer Ami Vitale has a list of funding sources for photographers on her website.
Local photographer Timothy Hyde was interviewed by the City Paper this week.
Tempers flared at the European speed skating trials, resulting in an image that captures the joy of winning and the agony of defeat.
The scene surrounding this award winning image of a dead teenager in Haiti tells a much different story than the photo itself.
The Women Photojournalists of Washington are hosting their Third Annual Seminar and Portfolio Review on February 9.
The Center for Photography at Woodstock has a call for submissions.
Want to hear an International Center for Photography lecture, but can’t make it to New York? No problem, their lectures are available online.
The D.C. based STRATA Collective shared images from the MLK Peace Walk.
The identity of a young girl in an iconic photo by Lewis Hine was identified, more than 100 years later.
Photographer John Schneider shared the story of what happened when an actor stopped acting, and shared rare emotion.
Prince of Petworth shared the history of the Pension Building, home of the National Building Museum. The post has some fascinating historic photos of the D.C. landmark.
The Associated Press cut ties with photographer Narciso Contreras after he altered an image from the conflict in Syria.
Photoshelter has editing types to make your Facebook photos look better.
And finally, bad news for tigers this week. There is a deadly virus spreading among India’s already threatened tiger population.

Our links this week include a kitten photo shoot, Robert Capa’s color photographs, magical Edward Hopper inspired images, an opportunity to meet Bao Bao, and the Leica Store DC’s monthly photo winner. Dive right in, the water’s lovely!

Want to get up close and personal with giant panda cub Bao Bao? The National Zoo is hosting an Instameet, and you need to sign up by January 21.
The butterfly arm tattoo was his initial nomination, but when this guy took his kitten in for a formal portrait at J.C. Penney he won the hipster for life award.
D.C.’s own Pat Padua reviewed Brandon Stanton’s photo book Humans of New York.
The International Center of Photography in New York will be hosting an exhibit of Robert Capa’s color photographs.
Interesting interview with NASA’s chief photographer Bill Ingalls.
Giant grocery store wanted to welcome back Howard University students, but upset many with the photograph they chose. Perhaps if they went with a local photographer instead of stock this wouldn’t have happened.
The New York Portfolio Review is coming back for a second year.
If you are an Android fan, Lifehacker breaks down the best photo apps.
Ghosts of D.C. shared an old photo of a slave auction house in Alexandria this week. Additionally, the Library of Congress hosts a large collection of photographs of African Americans during the Civil War.
Speaking of old photos, the website WhatWasThere.com overlays photographs with the location where they were taken. You can even see the current street view with the old photo sliding in front of it.
Dreamy photographs inspired by Edward Hopper paintings, by Richard Tuschman.
Flak Photo, the online photo publication, is looking for submissions.
Photoshopping an image of Martin Luther King always seems like a bad idea, but using it to promote your twerking event is particularly bad. The event was cancelled.
The New York Times included large, lovely images with their list of “52 Places to Go in 2014”. The best news is that you can scroll down instead of clicking through.
The Leica Store DC announced the January winner for their Oskar Barnack Wall.
Slate shared Eugene Ellenberg’s series “In My Father’s House.” The work “deals with the concept of Ellenberg’s memory of his family and his method for trying to better understand their relationships, as well as attempting to understand exactly who they all are.”
The League of Reston Artists has a call for photographs, for a show at the Reston Chamber of Commerce.
Wired shared the story of Tama Dezso’s photography project in Romania. He has been documenting the crumbling infrastructure left behind after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Steve Winter’s book of tiger images, Tigers Forever, is being used to promote tiger conservation. There are shockingly only approximately 3,000 tigers left in the wild.

Friday Links

January 10, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Guess what day it is! Yup, it’s time for your weekly slew of fab photography-related links, including Bao Bao up close and personal, a slightly delayed wedding photo shoot, and tigers galore. Happy Friday!

NPR took a look inside food, by showing dissected edibles. The work is from photographers Beth Galton and Charlotte Omnes.
Yesterday the Washington City Paper announced the winners of their first ever photo contest. Congratulations to those selected.
If your resolution for the New Year was to improve your photography, here are ten steps to follow.
If you missed portrait photographer Martin Schoeller speak on “The Power of Photography to Relate” at National Geographic, you can catch it online.
In case you somehow didn’t hear the story this week, a family was reunited with their missing son after seeing a photo that local AP photographer, and Exposed 2014 special prize judge, Jacquelyn Martin shot.
After receiving a check for $1.32 for the use of one of his images, photographer Joe McNally shared his thoughts on the state of the industry.
The photographer scheduled for their wedding never showed up, so this couple took their themed wedding photos later. 61 years later.
Smithsonian Magazine has an exclusive with our most beloved D.C. resident, Bao Bao. Be very careful looking at the last photo, the cuteness may cause extreme giddiness.
Steve Winter’s book on tigers is out. The name of the book Tigers Forever is quite a coincidence since the entire Exposed DC tiger-loving team has “TIGERS 4EVA” tattooed on their chests.
Photographer Adam Magyar is creating new technology that changes the way we photograph time.
Attempting to step out of their normal routine, photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida created magic worlds using food and miniatures.
The average salary for a U.S. photographer is $36,330. The only upside is that this data does not include freelancers.
We had to end on a happier note, so we have a bonus tiger link this week. The polar vortex was too much for Bandar and Sukacita, so they played inside with a ball and a tub of water.

Friday Links

January 3, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Our first Friday Links of 2014 is full of images, stories and best of galleries from 2013. So here is to looking back before we move forward.

Photo editor Stella Kramer broke down the good and the bad that happened in photography in 2013.
For a visual adrenaline rush, check out the Red Bull Photos of the year, in four parts.
New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered film negatives taken over 100 years ago in Antarctica.
Heavy Metal Culture is alive and well in Botswana. Photographer Franck Marshall has captured the leather clad fans of Death Metal.
14 Photojournalists to follow on Instagram. Or, a list that will save you from selfies and food photos.
Photographers do send the best holiday cards. Here are two lists to get your ideas flowing for next year.
It is true that you can see how a photo was lit by looking at the eyes of the subject, but can reflections in the eye help solve crimes?
Taking pictures of the back of your girlfriend’s head in pseudo HDR can get you 500K followers on Instagram.
Energy.gov shared their collection of 2013 Photos of the Week.
James Estrin, editor of the New York Times Lens Blog, will be showing his own work for the first time in 20 years.
Add the New Yorker to the list of publications that spend hundreds of words lamenting the death of the camera.
Wired Science has a collection of their most popular photo galleries of 2013.
And finally, the Washington Post’s round up of best animal photos of the year includes a great image of the National Zoo’s tiger cub.

Friday Links

December 27, 2013 By Heather Goss

Christmas week, whether you celebrate or not, is often one punctuated by lots of downtime, so we’ve got some great reading and even better pictures to keep you busy through the weekend. And of course, we assume you’re taking some of that time to pick your three best D.C.-area photos to enter into our contest? Submissions close on midnight January 8 (and be mindful of our suggestion to make your Flickr account now and upload a few images, even if you aren’t ready to submit them to our contest group, because it can take a few days for Flickr to approve your account and make it viewable to the public — i.e. us!) Do you have questions about the contest or what you should enter? Ask us in the comments or at info [at] exposeddc.com.

The Washington City Paper’s Louis Jacobson tells us what he considers the best photography exhibits in D.C. in 2013.
Vivian Maier was a pioneering street photographer who became a household name when a couple of guys stumbled upon nearly her entire life’s work in 2007 and launched an immensely successful Kickstarter to film a movie about her. Now you can view her contact sheets online.
Using tilt-shift to create “Tiny universes” made out of pictures of the big universe. This one is for the astro-nerds.
A young Syrian photographer who freelanced for Reuters was killed while covering the fighting in Aleppo last week.
Speaking of young Syrians, HIPA, a Dubai arts foundation, worked with child refugees in a Jordanian camp, giving them cameras and lessons on how to use photography as a form of communication. Incidentally, HIPA also runs a photography contest open to anyone in the world over 18 that closes on December 31, 2013, is free to enter, and offers nearly $400,000 in prize money.
The headline “Photographer Finds Cockatiels, Jesus in NYC Basements” definitely had us clicking through.
The famed horse track, where thoroughbreds like Seabiscuit and Citation once ran, has closed.
A Washington, D.C. family poses for a Christmas portrait in 1918.
We need every publication to start doing this: The New Yorker posts all the bizarro photos they dug up while doing research in 2013.
You probably saw this link posted on Facebook by every photographer you know last week. These cheetsheets are even more beautiful than they are helpful.
Looking to develop some film? Local Darkroom has what you need, wherever you might be.
The only thing wrong with this photo gallery of Dominic the pit bull puppy cuddling animal patients as they come out of surgery is that we can’t reach through the screen and cuddle Dominic right back.
A new book, Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk Of Lightning, takes a look at documentary photographer’s life.
Well this is pretty terrible. A San Diego male tiger killed its mate while attempting to breed. If that’s not your cup of link tea, how about this photographer getting a scary view of a tiger shark with its jaws wide open.