- On Thursday, NASA’s New Horizons mission team published new and spectacular pictures of Pluto taken during its fly-by in July.
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National Geographic gives Fox control of its media assets in $725 million deal creating new for-profit business.
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Getty Images and Instagram announced three winners of their inaugural $10,000 grant to continue documenting stories from underrepresented communities.
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David Maurice Smith’s tells the story of a turning point in the refugee crisis in Hungary when hundreds of men, women and children walked from Keleti station in Budapest to the Austrian border.
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“Les Danseurs” is the result of a year that photographer Matthew Brookes spent with professional male ballet dancers in Paris. Brookes asked the dancers to think of falling birds when they posed for him.
- Go take your camera out to a ton of local festival and events this weekend, including the DC State Fair, Columbia Heights Day (my favorite capybara petting opportunity of the year), Adams Morgan Day, the 17th Street Festival, the Nation’s Triathlon, and Snallygaster. Also Madonna is playing the Verizon Center on Saturday night, so you might find some spectacular 80s-era gear in line.
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On the evening of September 9, 2015 Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history. The BBC presents an image from the archives of the Press Association from every year of her reign.
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In his new book “00:00.00” Edgar Martins photographed a BMW car plant in Munich apparently at a complete standstill. The crash test center images are particularly creepy.
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It’s the Maryland wedding photographer versus the DJ in #Weddingphotogate.
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Wired does a public service reporting on the Adventure Cats of Instagram.
Friday Links: September 4, 2015
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.
Friday Links: August 28, 2015
County fair time is my favorite, both for attending and for all the great photo opportunities. Keep ’em coming. Save the date for September 10, our next happy hour, which will be a fire sale of prints leftover from 10 years of Exposed DC photography shows, held at the Leica Store.
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No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news about the Roanoke, Virginia CBS reporter Alison Parker, and cameraman, videographer, and photographer Adam Ward, who were shot to death by a disgruntled former station employee on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, police forced BBC reporters to delete footage and threatened to confiscate their cameras as they covered the Virginia shootings.
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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, Carlos Barria used the prints of photos he took in 2005 to find the same locations he documented at the time. Barria overlaid the prints to contrast the inundated New Orleans then with the city today.
- The Baltimore Sun put together a great photo set about the Cotopaxi eruption in Ecuador.
- Stunning images of athletes in motion at this year’s IAAF World Championships competition in Beijing.
- CNNMoney has published Mary Ellen Mark’s last assignment, Picture This: New Orleans, before she died last May.
- Rudi Meisel was one of the very few West German photographers allowed to cross the Berlin Wall into East Germany. Despite the best efforts of censors, he captured authentic street life in the GDR. A new exhibition reveals that East and West Germans weren’t so different after all.
- As Gustavo Jononovich documented, the bounty of natural resources in Latin America can sustain a community, but also destroy it through pollution and overdevelopment.
- Time Magazine pontificates on The Next Revolution in Photography.
- Diverting your attention from Mei Xiang’s mixed news this week, it turns out baby pandas get even cuter when you put them in baskets.
Friday Links: August 21, 2015
We’re planning our next photography session with Knowledge Commons DC. If you’re interested in teaching a class, please let us know!
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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.
Friday Links: August 14, 2015
- Italian photographer Stefano Cerio documents Chinese amusement parks in hibernation in his upcoming book “Chinese Fun.”
- See Wayne Levin’s gorgeous pictures of schools of Hawaiian fish in hypnotizing shapes at D.C.’s National Academy of Sciences.
- Outside magazine has a slideshow of awful scenes from the wildfires raging in California.
- For decades, nobody had explored the vast photo archives of Metronome Magazine, which closed in 1961, until Pierre Vudrag decided to take a look. His selections from the archives are now featured in a traveling exhibition, “The Metronome Jazz Photo Collection.”
- Members of Uganda’s persecuted LGBT community celebrated Gay Pride this week in an undisclosed location near the capital Kampala.
- There are a few galleries out there of the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked on Thursday, but this one by the Guardian is quite nice.
- Lachryphagy is the practice of drinking tears for nutrients. It’s what these butterflies are doing to a pair of turtles in Ecuador.
- In the mid-1970s a young engineer invented the digital photographic process. Some of his bosses were not impressed. His employer? Eastman Kodak.
- 96 million black polythene “shade balls” fill a reservoir in drought-hit Los Angeles to protect against evaporation.
- Envious of the endless barrage of friends’ gorgeous vacation photos on social media? Guardian readers share their soggy British holiday pictures.
- A fox decided to take a nap and be adorable on this second story window in London.
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