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Friday Links: October 2, 2015

October 2, 2015 By James Calder

Raindrops on Projections by Jeffrey Morris

As the heavy rains arrive in our area, many outdoor weekend plans are being cancelled or postponed, including arts-related events we tweeted about earlier. DCist is tracking those schedule changes as they learn about them.
The Friends of Mitchell Park in D.C. are having a photo contest. Enter by October 15.
“A lot of brands are starting to reach out to dogs because dogs make people happy, and brands want their ads to make people happy.” The fast, furry rise of the Instagram-famous pet.
In his home country, the influences of legendary Indian photographer Raghubir Singh are still seen today.
Living among deteriorating buildings of failed experiments to expand housing in the suburbs are the seniors who first lived there. A poetic vision of Paris’s crumbling suburban high-rises.
One of the 2015 MacArthur Fellows is photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, who “uses visual autobiographies to capture social inequality and historical change in the postindustrial age.”
“So This Is What a Murderer Looks Like.” Defense lawyer Sara Bennett’s photos of four women re-entering society.
Skewed gender norms and twisted, dreamlike scenes abound in this selection of images from the newly released book “Reveal and Detonate: Contemporary Mexican Photography.”
What life is like as a twentysomething nun.
Violence erupted during demonstrations at the lack of policing in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, an area that has been volatile for weeks.
Damon Winter found that when it comes to photographing Donald Trump’s campaign, there are no quiet moments.
A mountain lion spent the afternoon atop a 35-foot utility pole in the California desert after apparently getting spooked by a bus of screaming school children.
This leopard in India is clearly a big fan of Winnie the Pooh.

Friday Links: September 25, 2015

September 25, 2015 By Heather Goss

Last Pope merchandise by Victoria Pickering

Local photographer Bill Putnam went to Iraq first as a soldier and later returned as an embedded civilian photojournalist. He recently started a blog looking back at his time there.
Like a rooftop garden in an overcrowded financial district, Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit is an unexpected urban oasis whose narrow escape from development has brought marshes, lagoons and forests to the centre of Canada’s largest city.
“With my photography, I want to step away from the photo-saturated society we now live in. The magic has been lost: no one makes anything by hand any more.” Alice Cazenave’s remarkable portrait on a leaf.
Death via selfie is getting really real, guys.
Get your submissions ready and your hammer and nails out: Artomatic returns this fall.
The Action/2015 project has brought ten photographers together to offer their perspectives on equality, with subjects ranging from the Awá tribe in Brazil to factory workers in Wisconsin.
“I want these images to show that behind the tattoos and the media stereotype there is a human being.” Adam Hinton’s portraits of imprisoned members of El Salvador’s MS-13 gang.
Photographer Jason Koxvold spent three days in June at Bagram for Black-Water, a series exploring what it means to be perpetually at war in the Middle East.
The New York Times dives into the murky privacy waters of brands capitalizing on your social media posts.
Photographer Melodie McDaniel searches for identity through the underbelly of faith, race, and the American pulpit.
“I would get many a funny look from passers-by wondering what on earth this guy with a camera was doing photographing a car park in the middle of a rainy and cold Manchester.” Phil Burrowes images capture the architecture of car parks across Britain.
The Detroit Zoo debuted its baby red panda, Tofu, this week.

Friday Links: September 18, 2015

September 18, 2015 By James Calder

Car park at New Carrollton Station by James Jackson

“Reminiscent of a Geiger counter, a small speaker emits electronic feedback that increases in intensity the closer you are to an over-photographed location.”
An interview with VICE’s new photo editor, Elizabeth Renstrom, about “keeping photography weird.”
Photographer Eilon Paz’s “Dust & Grooves” digs into the private lives – and libraries – of the world’s most obsessive record collectors.
Classic car enthusiasts and fans of vintage fashions donned their tweeds, trilbies and furs to attend the Goodwood Revival, a historic motor racing festival held every September in Chichester, England since 1998.
After fourteen years of being immersed in the bloody wars of our era, C.J. Chivers – the best and most experienced combat reporter of his generation – suddenly decided to stop.
“Dark Fields of the Republic,” featuring haunting Civil War-era photographs, opens at the National Portrait Gallery today.
Head down to Maketto from 7 to 11 p.m., September 24, for “Five Photo Show,” showcasing new images by local photographers Michael Andrade, Ryan Florig, Tyrous Morris, Kyle Myles and Kevin Wilson.
This helpful video has tips on organizing and digitizing old photos.
An inside look at Dominican baseball.
Ilford, long-time manufacturer of film and photograph paper, has been purchased, but emphasizes that it’s not only committed to analogue photography, it plans to put efforts into promoting the techniques to young photographers.
Insight Astronomy revealed their Photographer of the Year 2015 winners.
Ansel Adams’ rare photos of everyday life in a Japanese internment camp.
Photographer and geologist Frederik Holm has been chasing spectacular volcanic eruptions across Iceland.
Everybody do the baby owl boogie.

Friday Links: September 11, 2015

September 11, 2015 By Heather Goss

On Thursday, NASA’s New Horizons mission team published new and spectacular pictures of Pluto taken during its fly-by in July.
National Geographic gives Fox control of its media assets in $725 million deal creating new for-profit business.
Getty Images and Instagram announced three winners of their inaugural $10,000 grant to continue documenting stories from underrepresented communities.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
It’s the Maryland wedding photographer versus the DJ in #Weddingphotogate.
Wired does a public service reporting on the Adventure Cats of Instagram.

Friday Links: September 4, 2015

September 3, 2015 By James Calder

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.