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Friday Links: June 26, 2015

June 26, 2015 By James Calder

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Enter this Phillips Collection contest by submitting your own “American Moment” and you could win a camera from the Leica Store DC, or another great prize. The deadline is 5 p.m., July 21.
Head over to the DC Arts Center July 8-10 to claim your space for their popular, annual 1460 Wallmountables exhibit. They’ve been doing this show since 1989!
Mega-photo-op alert! Watch this 10,000-square-foot ball pit being constructed at the National Building Museum on their livecam, and visit the installation starting July 4.
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, an intensive training program for writers, radio producers and photographers that has operated in Maine for 42 years, is shutting its doors in September.
Concert photographer Jason Sheldon calls out Taylor Swift for her “hypocritical” open letter to Apple.
Instagram appears to be back to normal in North Korea after a week of warnings on user accounts saying the popular photo-sharing app had been blacklisted for harmful content.
Have fears about privacy, terrorism, and pedophilia ruined street photography?
Ellie Davies merges images of stars and galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope with landscapes from English forests. She starts by creating the photographs of the landscape, looking for compositions that could accommodate other shapes, and then looks for a suitable starscape to fill the space. The results are dreamlike.
Another photographer combining images is Stephen McMennamy whose #combophoto project may look like surreal photo-manipulations created using Photoshop, but are actually the result of a much simpler process, cleverly arranging two photos side-by-side to create imaginative and amusing new scenes.
Danish photographer Ken Hermann tries to capture the person behind the mask in his series on Los Angeles street performers, many of whom dress as famous Hollywood characters.
Watch this tiger be released into the Russian wild where he’ll have a gal pal and lots to feast on.

Friday Links: June 19, 2015

June 19, 2015 By Heather Goss

WashPost Production Plant 2015-06-18 #15 by Rob Cannon

Friday Links is hot off the presses!

Tampa Airport staff took a kid’s lost stuffed animal on a photo adventure while waiting for his return.
Photographer Jonathan Castillo ambushes his fellow Los Angelenos in their cars.
Go on a photo tour of all the outdoor art in D.C.
We’re about to have one less place to display art in town: ArtDC is holding their closing party this Saturday, 7-9:30 p.m. Leave a tip in their jar to fund whatever they embark on next.
The 2015 winners of the International Earth & Sky Photo Contest are as beautiful as you imagine.
Zookeepers posing like Chris Pratt in Jurassic World is probably the best thing about Jurassic World.
Veteran photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo has been documenting the remains of the Cold War and nuclear arms race that are hidden in plain site across the American landscape.
The lifeblood of Christy Lee Rogers’s otherworldly underwater photography is improvisation, so it’s appropriate that the idea for her latest series, “Celestial Bodies,” came from a technical mishap.
Jacob Biba’s first visit to a deserted North Carolina mall was in 2001, where he found a chocolate milkshake priced in accordance with a time long gone. Here he provides a glimpse of eerie storefronts and places that are dying, but not quite dead.
In the aftermath of this year’s debates over manipulated news photos, a new exhibit, “Altered Images: 150 Years of Posed and Manipulated Documentary Photography,” opens this weekend at the Bronx Documentary Center.
Get your photo posted from space. Every month for the remaining eight months that astronaut Scott Kelly is aboard the space station for his year-long tour, he’ll post a winning photo from NASA and the United Nation’s “Why Space Matters” contest. Upload your photos of how space travel and technologies have affected your life to Instagram and tag it with #whyspacematters and @UNOOSA.
The floods in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, have been terribly sad for both human and animal, but this photo of a loose zoo hippo wandering down the street is pretty unreal.

Friday Links: June 12, 2015

June 12, 2015 By Heather Goss

In the wake of recent bystander recordings seen in the news, the Washington Post has put together a short video primer on what you need to know about recording the police.
“For the few foreign journalists who have had repeated access to the North, the views from the window become vital, offering counterpoints to the cascade of officially arranged scenes.” Six days in North Korea – photographs and video by David Guttenfelder.
Polaroid’s new ZIP instant printer gets high marks, fits in your pocket, and costs $129 on Amazon plus $25 for each pack of 50 photo sheets. Consider mine purchased.
Out of context you might be unsure of exactly what you’re looking at when you first see the images in Roland Fischer’s series “Facades.” They could be tiles or fabric patterns or perhaps optical illusions.
D.C. photographer Andy DelGuidice reminisces about what hooked him on cheap color film.
“Gaining the trust of the young men and women I portrayed in these photos wasn’t an immediate process.” A month in the life of the youth of Khartoum, Sudan, shot by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah.
Professional storm-chasing photographer Kelly DeLay captured a “shot of a lifetime” — a massive supercell storm cloud extending twin tornados to the ground below.
By peering into the homes of strangers, Gail Albert Halaban hopes to bridge the gap of isolation and disconnectedness of living in large cities. And yes, she has the approval of her subjects.
Leading up to the 68th Annual General Meeting of the Magnum Photos cooperative, its 60 active photographers were asked to select “an image that changed everything.”
The Washington Football Team is hiring a photographer.
Can’t a beaver scratch his bum in peace?

Friday Links: June 5, 2015

June 5, 2015 By James Calder

You have to kiss a lot of princes to find your frog by Miki J.

Don’t forget to mark your calendars and join us this Tuesday evening at Redwood in Bethesda for the June DC Photographer Happy Hour. Hang out with lovely folks from various local photography groups including IGDC, APADC, Leica Store DC and ASMPDC. Until then, whet your appetites with this week’s links:

On the eve of the Look3 festival, In Sight’s Nicole Crowder spoke with festival co-founder and animal photographer Vincent J. Musi about all things furry.
Photojournalist Steve McCurry’s assistant has been arrested in connection with the theft of prints, books, and items from McCurry’s studio worth $654,358.
Russia’s recently crowned national soccer champions Zenit St Petersurg celebrated with an unconventional team photo.
A Long Walk Home shows the world as seen by Eli Reed, Magnum’s first black photographer.
Julien Mauve’s new series “Greetings From Mars” imagines humankind’s first steps on the red planet. Using intentionally touristy poses, he explores our reactions to cameras in a new context, playing up our desires to capture and be captured.
Zara Samiry rediscovered the North African equestrian tradition of Fantasia when she learned of a troupe of women who pushed traditional boundaries.
Dr. Darrell Crain Jr. was a rheumatologist and lifelong Washingtonian who died in 1995. His photos of some of the 20th century’s defining moments are enjoying a second life as part of the DC Public Library’s Washingtoniana collection.
Wayne Barrar had long been photographing mines when he started to wonder what became of them after they were depleted. His series “Expanding Subterra” documents their surprising transformations into other types of spaces, including offices, libraries, and even paintball fields.
Look at this 40-tonne whale doing a mid-air barrel roll!

Friday Links: May 29, 2015

May 29, 2015 By Heather Goss

Photographers around the world have been mourning the loss of legendary photojournalist and documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark, who died Monday. There are many tributes you should go read, starting with The Washington Post’s In Sight blog celebration of her life.
As NPR says, these portraits of wounded soldiers are meant to be stared at.
You’ve probably heard lots of moaning over this reminder by Richard Prince that your Instagram photos aren’t really yours. One of the “artworks” in his exhibit is a $90,000 print of a photo by alt-porn site Suicide Girls, who responded cleverly by making posters of his prints and selling them for $90. Founder Missy Suicide followed it up by doing an IAMA on reddit, which immediately turned into a free-for-all of redditors demanding explanation for the company’s use of questionable non-compete clauses on contracts for its models and photographers in its early days (she eventually left a lengthy answer in her original post). That’s quite enough of everyone being terrible for this week, thanks.
Syrian photographer Khaled al-Hariri, who worked for Reuters for more than 20 years, has died aged 54 following a long illness. In more sad news, National Geographic photographer Cotton Coulson died on Wednesday after a scuba diving accident off the coast of Norway.
Women in Afghanistan can be incarcerated for shocking reasons. In the four years she spent visiting women’s prisons across the country, Gabriela Maj heard stories of women who’d suffered more than anyone she’d ever met. In her book, Almond Garden, Maj presents the stories of 50 of those women, alongside portraits she took after getting unprecedented access to the facilities where they live.
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse have won the Deustche Börse photography prize for Ponte City, a study of an apartment block in Johannesburg.
On the edge of space: photographer Christopher Michel’s out-of-this-world selfie, 70,000 feet above the Earth.
What gets your dog’s heart racing? Nikon-Asia developed a camera to show you.