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Friday Links: July 29, 2016

July 29, 2016 By James Calder

On an historic night for America Tuesday, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party. Most newspapers however ran images of her husband or Bernie Sanders, as evidenced by the front page display outside the Newseum.
Meanwhile, NBC has compiled an excellent photo gallery: “The long arc of Hillary Clinton’s political life has taken her from first lady to first female candidate on a major party ticket.”
Attend the opening reception of an exhibition by Critical Exposure students from Anacostia High School. The photos on display were used to wage their Food Justice for School Lunches campaign. Thursday, August 4, 5:30pm at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.
This weekend is your last chance to see photographs from the 1974 Kansas Documentary Survey at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Local photographer Bill Putnam took the skills he learned while serving as an Army photojournalist and used them to start his own business.
Six war photographers are featured in Conflict, a new Netflix show that documents the riskiest freelance job in the world.
Photographer Nicole Bengiveno, who is leaving The New York Times, feels duty-bound to stay with her subjects so long that they trust her enough to let her capture authentic, intimate moments.
Iceland Coast Guard helicopter photobombs wedding photo shoot.
Gratuitous baby animal photo link.

Friday Links: July 22, 2016

July 22, 2016 By James Calder

photo by Christopher Chen — Photo by Christopher Chen

Chill out with your fellow photography peeps this Wednesday evening, July 27, at the monthly Exposed DC Happy Hour. We’ll be escaping the heat at Liberty Tavern in Arlington, just a couple of blocks from Clarendon Metro station, starting at 6:00pm.
Attend a workshop with former U.S. Senate photographer George Talbot at the Alexandria Black History Museum this Saturday, 11 a.m., free. Participants are encouraged to bring a thumb drive of images.
Head to a photography opening at BlackRock Center in Germantown, Maryland featuring work by Alexandria Silverthorne and D.B. Stovall. 2-4 p.m. with artists remarks at 2:30 p.m.
Freelance photographers rushing to cover a brush fire ended up helping catch the suspected arsonist.
Sports photo of the year contender — “How did he not become dead?!?!“
While we’re talking about the Tour de France, have you ever wondered how a photo-finish camera works?
The Los Angeles Times digs up an awesome one from the archives: A boxing match under the wing of the Spruce Goose.
PDN has a gallery of Rachel Boillot’s series of Post Offices scheduled to close.
Amazing photos of a “microburst” over Phoenix this week.
“Frankfurters in Full Dress” and other favorite food recipes of famous photographers.
The water’s lovely: eerie Slovakian swimming pools.
There’s a new porcupette at the Zoo!

It’s the last day to enter your photos into the Community Collective photo contest. Our own James Calder is one of the judges, and you know what he likes. Get them in by midnight for a chance to be in the exhibit at Capital Fringe later this fall.

Head to Agence France-Presse for images and news on the attacks in Nice during Bastille Day last night.
The photo of Iesha Evans standing still in the face of two Louisiana state troopers in riot gear has become instantly iconic, drawing comparisons to other historic protest images. Guardian Art critic Jonathan Jones assesses the image’s impact, while photographer Jonathan Bachman recalls how he captured the shot.
In the wake of two high-profile police shootings and shootings of police, the North Carolina governor signed into law a bill that makes police cam footage no longer public record. “This shameful law will make it nearly impossible to achieve [transparency and accountability],” said a representative of the state’s ACLU chapter.
Saturday, July 16, at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, take a workshop on how to be quick and creative with your smartphone camera at this workshop, for $25.
Enjoy this photo essay that follows “the world’s most NSFW seafood from mud to plate.”
The Smithsonian Archives celebrates 120 years of photography collecting at the Institution.
“To be a photographer is to willingly enter the world of the lonely, because it is an artistic exercise in invisibility.”
A close-up view of Jupiter and its moons from NASA Juno, which went into orbit around the giant planet on July 4.
Worried about hackers accessing the camera on your internet connected devices but don’t want to use tape to cover them? Check out the well-backed Kickstarter campaign for Nope 2.0, a magnetic privacy cover for desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
The International Photography Awards lists their top 10 Latin American photographers to watch.
Moon photobombs Earth again.
You’ve seen Michael Starghill’s outstanding sports photography in past Exposed DC exhibits. Now you can see it by picking up the current print issue of ESPN Magazine (beware NSFW cover) where he photographed Simone Biles, widely considered the best gymnast in the world, before she heads to the Olympics next month with the U.S. team.
Tired of waiting for Google, Faroe Islanders have launched Sheep View 360, enlisting their ovine population to do the leg work.

Friday Links: July 8, 2016

July 8, 2016 By exposeddc

You Know Who by brunofish — Photo by brunofish

It’s been a terrible week for the black community and the country in general, with the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minneapolis. A week capped off when snipers shot 12 police officers, killing five, during an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas last night.

There are lots of things going on here, but this is Exposed DC, so let’s talk about cameras. Black people didn’t just start getting shot by police during routine traffic stops this week, or last year. What’s changed is that the public has the ability to make a record of it, to give the deceased a last word in what happened to them. It was back in 1991, when bystanders took video footage of Rodney King being beaten by the Los Angeles police that showed the power that the public’s access to cameras can have. As the Washington Post writes, “it was no coincidence” that Alton Sterling’s shooting was filmed. A group called Stop the Killing has been listening to police scanners for potentially violent interactions and rushing to the scene with cameras in hand. How big would the news of Sterling’s death had been if it had happened in a parking lot empty except for Sterling and the officers? Would you know his name? Diamond Reynolds had to make the agonizing decision to grab her cell phone and start recording on Facebook Live while her boyfriend bled out in the driver’s seat and her daughter watched. She had to, or she knew Castile’s side would not be heard.

Here in the nation’s capital, where federal buildings loom on every corner, photographers are hassled unjustly all the time. We have always advocated that photographers know and speak up for their rights, and it’s not because we need another cool shot of the Washington Monument. It’s because this, this ability to bear witness, is the end-product of what these rights are for.

Photographers: know your rights, and what to do when you’re stopped by police. Speak up when authorities prevent you from filming anyway. Do not vote for legislators who would take this right away from you. Advocate for police cameras. Keep reminding authorities that police cams are good for police too, if their interest is in defending officers who do good work and appropriately disciplining those who don’t. Here’s a U.S. map that shows what laws curbing police violence, including police cams, have been proposed or enacted in your area. D.C. recently implemented one of the best police cam programs in the country. How can we do better? Read Aura Bogado on access to smartphones and media justice. Here are some apps you can use that will restore photos if police make you delete them.

We can do so much to end this. Bearing witness is just the start.

Finally, let’s get to some Friday Links about what else is happening in photography this week.

Serenity now: Hear a talk by local photographer Stephen Voss at the Japanese Information and Cultural Center about his images of bonsai trees, along with Jack Sustic, the chief curator of the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, who will be doing a live demonstration. Free, but RSVP.
Mark your calendar for some July photography events at the National Museum for Women in the Arts. On Saturday, July 16, learn how to be quick and creative with your smartphone camera at this workshop, for $25. On July 27, join an artist discussion with Tanya Habjouqa about her work featured in the ongoing exhibit, She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, $25.
Go see an exhibit by the homeless photographers who work for Street Sense at Hillyer Art Space next Tuesday, July 12, 6:30pm. Free but RSVP here.
Next time you pass through the NoMa-Galludet station, stop to view photographs taken by Kevin Sutherland, the 24-year-old stabbed to death on the red line last year.
Instagram has become a safe space for people embracing diets and other food-restrictive lifestyles.
Parched land. Farmer suicides. Forced migration. Photojournalist Vivek Singh on the drought that’s crippling rural India.
Mosha and Motola are fitted for new prosthetic legs at the Asian Elephant Foundation hospital in Thailand.

Friday Links: July 1, 2016

July 1, 2016 By Heather Goss

The National Building Museum knows what photographers like. After the success of the Beach and the Maze, they’re opening their latest installation, ICEBERGS, this Saturday, July 2. We swung by the press preview Thursday and can attest it’s a worthy photo op. (Plus there’s a shaved ice booth, so get out of the summer heat!)
Want to learn how to photograph bonsai? Register for this free lecture by Stephen Voss at the Japan Information and Culture Center, July 14, 6:30 p.m.
Legendary New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham has died at the age of 87. For forty years, Cunningham practiced his own iconic brand of cultural anthropology from his bicycle, photographing the most stylish, flamboyant, and “interestingly” dressed people he could find on the busy streets of New York. Celebrate his life by watching the excellent documentary from 2011, available for free on Hulu, and for rent on iTunes and Amazon.
Get 6 tips for photographing fireworks, from the Capital Photography Center.
Call for entries: the 2016 APA Awards submission deadline has been extended. (The new deadline is not specified.)
Apple now has a patent for turning iPhone cameras off. There are many questionable ways this could be used, including by law enforcement.
The 2016 Crusade Engagement Grant winning project is The Trade of Art, Bruce McKaig’s Baltimore-based photo bartering concept.
A gruesome attack on the Istanbul airport in Turkey killed dozens and injured hundreds more on Tuesday. The New York Times follows the aftermath.
As our own Meaghan Gay aptly said, “I audibly gasped at this photo and now I want to crawl out of my skin.”
More on emus fleeing wildfires in Southern California.
On this Independence Day, a spacecraft will enter a dangerous Jupiter orbit. NASA is seeking help from amateur astrophotographers for the mission. Maybe they’ll see something like this spectacular aurora on the giant planet.
Find out how small claims court for copyright infringement might be a godsend for photographers.
Some spectacular photographs accompany this NatGeo story about why the white-tailed eagle comeback in Europe might not be all conservationists hoped.
You can support local photographer Frank Day complete production of his photobook of Bangkok phone booths by donating to his Kickstarter.
One of the happiest sea otter photos we have ever seen, offsetting a disturbing story about increasing attacks on the furry mammals by juvenile sharks.