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Friday Links: August 11, 2023

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Photo by Kevin Wolf
  • It’s been a summer of extreme weather as documented in these images from July.
  • The Maryland Professional Photographers Association (MDPPA) is hosting an “Animal Metamorphosis” workshop on October 17 and 18 with Judy Reinford showing how to take images from vacation, zoo, nature, and client work and turn them into beautiful works of art. Limited in-person tickets are available, and early bird pricing is in effect through September 6.
  • One of our 2023 Best in Show judges, Briana Thomas, created a guide to Black art in D.C. with emerging artists, galleries, history, and more.
  • The Nature inFocus Photography Awards received entries from about 1,500 photographers from over 20 countries.
  • The Empire State Building launched its 12th annual photo contest with a $5,000 grand prize up for grabs.
  • It’s a busy weekend for StreetMeetDC who will be at Eastern Market tomorrow at 5 p.m. followed by an edit and chill session Sunday at 11:30 a.m. at Wonderland Ballroom. StreetMeetMD will also be hosting their second meet in Frederick later in the evening.

Friday Links: August 4, 2023

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Photo by Emma K Alexandra
  • Winners of the 2023 iPhone Photography Awards have been announced with the grand prize going to Ivan Silva of Mexico.
  • Eater and Bon Appetit tasked AI with food photography; both the prompts and the results were rather varied but showed limitations.
  • The California Academy of Sciences’ BigPicture Photography Competition highlights Earth’s biodiversity and illustrates threats our planet faces.
  • Through a series of photographs, Bruce Weber remembers the years past on Montauk, revealing what New York’s art elite got up to when no one was watching.
  • The first of two full moons this month graced us on Tuesday morning with people across the world capturing the sturgeon supermoon in full effect.
  • Nate Langston Palmer immersed himself in the world of a dance crew of young Black men in D.C. in a project he began after running into a group of dancers in his childhood neighborhood of Columbia Heights.
  • Fall and winter courses at Photoworks start next month with registration open now. For those with printing experience looking to work independently, their darkroom and computer lab are also open to the public on Sundays for $10/hr and $20/hr respectively.

Friday Links: July 28, 2023

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Photo by John Brighenti

  • The 17th annual Washington Gardener Photo Contest art show opens at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens on Sunday with a reception from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in the visitor center’s lobby.
  • Join StreetMeetDC at Anacostia Arts Center tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. for a celebration of their art gallery exhibition.
  • Emanuel Hahn focuses on the third wave of Korean immigration to the US in the 1970s in his “America Fever” photo series.
  • Head to Green Spring Gardens Horticultural Center on Sunday from 1:00-4:00 p.m. for an opening reception of the exhibit “Captured: Plants and Places” featuring 12 members of the Photo Forum Group.
  • Exposed alum Chris Suspect will be hosting a 4-day photography workshop in Milan at the end of September.
  • Photographer Rafael Pavarotti went behind the scenes of Beyonce’s London performances at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in a new feature for British Vogue.
  • Rachel Hulin joins the Los Angeles Times as deputy director of photography.
  • A new book revisits the NYC Subway of the 1970s and 1980s through Willy Spiller’s 2,000+ photo collection.

Friday Links: July 21, 2023

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Dzhoy Zuckerman Memorial Ride by Mike Maguire

Friday Links: July 14, 2023

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Photo by John Brighenti
  • Exposed alum Chris Suspect is hosting a Day of the Dead workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico from October 28 through November 4. The package price is $3,745 with an early bird discounted rate of $3,245 if you register and pay in full by tomorrow.
  • JRNL 18 submissions are open to all types of analogue work through July 31 with an entry fee of $35 for submissions with up to 20 images in a series or two.
  • This week, U.S. Soccer announced a new multi-year joint partnership with Getty Images and International Sports Images.
  • The James Webb Space Telescope continues to re-envision the universe with the latest photo released showing the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth.
  • Summer of StreetMeet kicks off on July 22 with StreetMeetMD’s first meet at Silver Spring followed by a StreetMeet Gallery at Anacostia Arts Center on July 29.
  • Judges of a photography competition selected a woman’s photo of her son and then rejected it after one said, “Hang on it looks a little AI-ish” even though they cannot prove it.
  • A new half-hour audio documentary, produced by Alvin Hall for BBC Radio, explores Diane Arbus’s legacy and asks why her photography retains its “extraordinary and unsettling” power.