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Friday Links: January 23, 2015

January 23, 2015 By Meaghan Gay

Dogs on the Beach by Cliff Burns — Dogs on the Beach by Clif Burns

Today is the last day to enter your photos in the Anacostia River photography contest.
Women in Ecuador are fighting to protect the Amazon, and Felipe Jacome has been taking their portraits.
Baltimore photographer Jonathan Hanson “began photographing androgynous people, wanting viewers to let go of the usual filters and question our traditional standards of beauty — and identity.”
Photographer Marcus Lyon has created composite photos that are anxiety-inducing. This 3-part series, BRICs, Exodus, and Timeout, is kind of post-apocalyptic feeling.
Local company Momenta Workshops made Photoshelter’s list of the 50 Fantastic Photo Workshops Happening in 2015.
“An instrument on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured its 100 millionth image of the sun. The instrument is the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, which uses four telescopes working parallel to gather eight images of the sun – cycling through 10 different wavelengths — every 12 seconds.” To celebrate their five years of photographing the sun, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center chose some of their favorite images and posted them on Flickr.
Michelle Frankfurter has been documenting the journeys of Central Americans as they climb on trains to reach the U.S. border.
Brent Stirton photographed the powerful story of two rural blind children in India who regained their sight.
Simon Menner‘s Camouflage series depicts German army snipers hidden in various landscapes.
A recent storm damaged a chain link fence bisecting Tijuana and San Diego, letting people jump back and forth between nations. Roc Morin documented kids playfully crossing the border.
RIP local art listing: D.C. galleries are reporting getting an email from the Washington Post saying that it’s eliminated the galleries listing from the printed Weekend section. Now’s a good time for a reminder that for photography exhibit info you can subscribe to our calendar (link at bottom of page) and submit your events to us.
And finally, some good news for tigers: India’s tiger population increased by 30%.

Friday Links: January 16, 2015

January 16, 2015 By Meaghan Gay

We announced the winners of our 9th annual Exposed DC photo contest this week.
Photographer Zhang Xiao explored 9,000 miles of China’s coastline and the photos are fantastic.
Did you know that the work of Robert Frank lives right in our backyard? “The Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery of Art is the largest repository of materials related to renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank“
The FAA will permit drones for journalism, starting with CNN.
The Library of Congress is celebrating the 7th birthday of their Flickr Commons account with a virtual game that let’s you explore it.
“In deeply conservative Kabul, dozens of Afghans flock to the Oqab Paintball Club each week to to take their mind off decades of war.” Photos by Omar Sobhani.
Photographer Danielle Guenther creates scenes depicting the beautiful chaos of parenting.
The Women Photojournalists of Washington will be holding the Fourth Annual Photo Seminar and Portfolio Review On Valentine’s Day. Tickets are available now.
An Autochrome exhibit at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa shows the early years of color photography.
The movie Finding Vivian Maier was nominated for an Oscar in best documentary feature.
After a lifetime of taking photos while dodging bullets, James Natchwey is going to receive the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Dan Bannino has made amazing photos of shelter dogs dressed as writers. The writers span hundreds of years of history, but Bannino sadly only managed to find two women writers to emulate.
Local photographer Keith Lane recently had his book Canals added to the bookstore at the International Center for Photography.
The New York Times is trying to learn the history behind this Gordon Parks photograph of the Jim Crow South.
The ultra-orthadox Israeli newspaper Hamevaser took out Angela Merkel and Anne Hidalgo from a photo of the march in Paris last week. “Binyamin Lipkin, editor of Hamevaser, said the newspaper is a family publication that must be suitable for all audiences, including young children.” Phew, we can imagine how the sight of the type of human that gave birth to you would be traumatizing for a child.
“Karen Mullarkey is one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time.” This two part interview is from last year, but well worth the read.
AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot and injured covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest in Pakistan.
For all of the film lovers out there, Barbara Flueckiger, professor at the Institute of Cinema Studies, University of Zurich has put together a Timeline of Historical Film Colors.
Andrea Bruce has a wonderful series in the New York Times called Revealing a Slowly Changing Cuba.
And finally, two filmmakers captured high speed footage of a Siberian tiger being released to the wild.

Friday Links: January 9, 2015

January 9, 2015 By Meaghan Gay

16228803622_8b66e680ee_b — D.C. Streets on Film by Tim Fulmer

Local photographer and curator Cynthia Connolly’s series Letters on Top of Buildings has been acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum. A print of one of these images will be part of the WPA Art Auction and Gala at one of the last exhibits at Artisphere, opening January 29.
Photographer Andrea Lee caught this epic battle between a seal and an octopus off Huntington Beach, California. There is no good outcome to this battle.
Washington City Paper announced the winners of their second annual photography contest.
The Leica Store DC will be hosting a book signing with Barbara Klemm before her gallery opening at the Goethe-Institut on January 14.
The Women Photojournalists of Washington are hosting their first of three business of photography events on Monday January 12. Photographer and author John Harrington will discuss pricing, contracts and negotiations.
Photographer Camilo Vergara shows how a street in Harlem has changed over 37 years.
The long beloved Atlantic In Focus blog has changed to The Atlantic Photo. The expanded photo section will allow for larger photos, shorter posts with one or two photos, and will continue to cover larger photo stories.
PDN has a great roundup of all the camera gear news and roll-outs happening at the Consumer Electronics Show. There are plenty of drones, cameras, and gadgets to interest everyone.
The so called “Ansel Adams Act” has been introduced in Congress and has the huge goal of restoring the rights of photographers on public lands. We have our fingers crossed for a good outcome.
ASMPDC will be hosting an 8×10 next week on Tuesday January 13. Eight local photographers will spend ten minutes each discussing their work.
The annual National Western Stock Show hit the streets of Denver this week, and The Denver Post has some great photos. We wish there were more cattle traffic slowdowns in D.C. At least it would be more interesting than a Metro meltdown.
Stanley Greene created moving images of the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan.
The London Zoo took stock of their animals at the turn of the new year, and the Post has some epic tiger shots in their animal gallery.

It’s a new year, so we got a new website design! How do you like our new digs?? Poke around and tell us what you love, or what could still be tweaked, or if anything is still buggy in the comments or by email.

Photographers, this is the LAST WEEKEND to submit your D.C.-area images to the 9th annual Exposed DC photography contest! About 40 images that tell the story of the DMV we know and love will go on display at the Capital Fringe headquarters next March in our blow-out exhibition. The deadline for entries is next Wednesday, January 7 at midnight. We’ll announce the winners the following Tuesday, January 13, and have a celebration for everyone at our monthly happy hour at Meridian Pint that evening. Alright, let’s get to the links.

Look at these crazy, crazy trees. Almost as crazy as the platinum/palladium process Beth Moon uses to photograph them.
White House photographer Pete Souza talks about the stories behind the shots.
The Capital Weather Gang collected D.C.’s best weather shots from 2014 — (we count six former Exposed winners!).
Meanwhile, the Washington Post‘s In Sight photo blog features a selection of snowy winter scenes from Washington’s past.
Politico does what it does best, and collected the 10 Best Washington Photos from 2014.
Last week we had the top 10 photos from the Department of Interior’s incredible Instagram account; Huffington Post did a step better and dug up its top 10 animal photos.
How do all these Best Of lists get made? The New York Times‘ Lens blog writes about how they choose 100 photos for their 2014 Year in Pictures.
The annual Sony World Photography competition is still accepting entries, but see what you’re up against with these 15 contenders.
Photographer Jill Waterman has been documenting New Year’s Eve celebrations in a different city every year since 1983, bouncing from Bethlehem to Prague, Shanghai to Montreal, Miami to San Francisco.
Photojournalist Lucas Jackson, embedded with American soldiers in Afghanistan, shares intimate and up-close photographs documenting the daily life, training, and camaraderie of troops counting down their final days in the region.
David Kasnic documents the people and practices that make up the controversial, annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas.
Maxine Helfman’s “Historical Correction” photo series places black subjects in historical Flemish-style portraits.
The Washington Post has a slideshow of tigers held in captivity in the Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, in China’s Heilongjiang province. Chinese demand for tiger rugs and wine made from tiger bones is putting the wild cats in peril.

Friday Links: December 26, 2014

December 26, 2014 By Heather Goss

Welcome to a special post-Christmas/Boxing day/Obama-mas edition of Friday Links – we wanted to squeeze one more in for you under the 2014 wire. Enjoy these while you polish off those leftover cookies and continue thinking about which photos you’re going to enter into our annual contest before the January 7 deadline. (Or go out and take some, it’s a gorgeous day!)

Louis Jacobson at the Washington City Paper always does a great yearly photography round-up. Here are his picks for D.C.’s top 10 photography exhibits, and top 5 individual exhibited photographs including fantastic work by former Exposed DC contest winners Christine Pearl and Steve Goldenberg.
LensCulture picked their favorite photobooks of the year.
PDN reports that an Amazon marketplace dealer is selling copyrighted photos featured in TIME magazine’s top 10 photos of 2014 on iPhone accessories. One would hope Amazon would shut this down quick, but we can also hope there’s not a big market out there for phone cases emblazoned with people dying from Ebola.
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s incredible book The Decisive Moment was recently reprinted after 62 years. The Guardian wonders, though: Has the moment passed?
Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom’s 20-year long photo project is the ultimate Who Wore it Best?
Not incredibly surprising: A U.S. District judge okays police using fake Instagram accounts to befriend people to get access to their images.
Y’all didn’t think the selfie stick was new, did you?
This “most ambitious crowdsourced timelapse” involved 40 photographers in London, over 35,000 photos, and 40 hours of video.
Spend the rest of the day with 500px’s collections of top 10 photos in various categories, including landscapes, journalism, and cats (!).
“I would hate to see this tradition interrupted by someone who is not an Ohioan.” A California activist has started a petition to stop Massillion Washington High School’s 44-year-long tradition of bringing live tiger cubs to their football games.