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Friday Links: May 1, 2015

May 1, 2015 By Heather Goss

There are lots of images from the protests and riots over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore, but you can start with, of course, the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore City Paper.
A photographer for Reuters was detained and another for the Baltimore City Paper was thrown to the ground by police last Friday.
Time magazine used an amateur photographer’s Instagram image for its cover on the Baltimore protests.
This short video from Getty Images, shares how photographer, Carleton E. Watkins saved Yosemite Park.
These satellite photos of seaweed farms in South Korea are gorgeous.
Thank you photoshop and this guy from Australia who likes cats. Behold: Brides throwing cats.
It’s been a rough week for people around the world. The LA Times has images from Nepal, where an earthquake has killed more than 5,000 people.
It’s spring, get out of the house! The Funk Parade is a can’t miss for photographers (and anyone else), or bring your camera and the family to celebrations at Glen Echo Park or Heurich House or fire up the action with Mexican wrestlers at the DC Fairgrounds.
Forty years ago this week, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the war.
Award winning photographer Marcus Bleasdale talks about how photography can affect change.
So you know the selfie stick? Well, the “Selfie Arm” takes the concept to a whole new level. A truly disturbing new level.
Wired has a photo gallery on the “shrinking community” living at Ummannaq, a remote village in Greenland.
Let’s zen out with these photos of color gradients in food by Brittany Wright.
Who needs a tiger link? You need a tiger link.

Friday Links: April 24, 2015

April 24, 2015 By James Calder

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This year’s Washington Post Squirrel Week Photo Contest was won by Exposed regular and animal photographer extraordinaire, Angela Napili. Bravo Angela!
Excellent photography non-profit Critical Exposure has launched a Kickstarter to create a mobile digital gallery that will showcase social justice photography created by D.C. youth.
Capital Weather Gang highlighted some striking photos of Monday’s huge lightning storm. Kevin Ambrose stacked 42 different lightning shots into one image that seems to portray the end of days for D.C., while Exposed alum Gary Silverstein used the lightning to frame the Iwo Jima memorial beautifully.
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch photography staff won the Breaking News Photography award for their “powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO”, while New York Times freelancer Daniel Berehulak took Feature Photography “for his gripping, courageous photographs of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”
With this week’s presentation of the World Press photo awards, the New York Times Lens blog presents a conversation with photographers, curators and photo editors on the struggle between photojournalistic ethics and evolving visual storytelling strategies.
The Hubble Space Telescope turned 25 this week. NASA celebrated by releasing a gorgeous image of a 3,000 star cluster. Over at Air & Space magazine, Exposed’s Heather Goss interviewed 10 scientists about the Hubble images they worked with and how each one helped usher in a new age of astronomy. The New York Times also jumped on the bandwagon.
The 27th annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest opened this month with some tremendous prizes up for grabs. Submit your best travel photos in any of four categories, and check back weekly to see galleries of the top entries.
Chile’s Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday without warning. The first imagery to do the rounds was a time-lapse of the eruption. Then came a series of incredible individual photos followed most recently by striking shots of the ash fall.
Davide Monteleone’s “In the Russian East” is a tribute both to Richard Avedon’s “In the American West” and to the lure of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In the remote village of Mawlynnong in northeast India, the Khasi tribe follows a rare tradition of women running the show.
Two friends sent each other selfies every day for a year, and only communicated through those photos (no calls or texts).
Artsy, ad-free social network Ello recently launched its own photography community – @ellophotography
A rare and gorgeous quadruple rainbow was spotted in Long Island.

Friday Links: April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015 By Heather Goss

A photo posted by Messay (@streetamatic) on Apr 16, 2015 at 9:51pm PDT

Need some inspiration? Keep up with our calendar for exhibitions, meet-ups, classes and more. Send us your event here.

Don’t get out of the Jeep on safari, even if you might get a great photo.
LIFE Magazine’s photo essay of a working mother in the 1950s.
Alison Nastasi had published a compilation of photos of famous artists and their cats.
“Through the African American Lens,” culled from a Smithsonian collection, shows how photography — and black photographers — reshaped a people’s image.
NY family loses legal battle against photographer who secretly shot them through the windows of their apartment and then put them in an exhibit.
For three years, photographer Michael Soluri had exclusive access to the astronaut crew, labor force and tools of the shuttle mission that saved and extended the life of the Hubble Space Telescope.
These photos could be better, but the idea and subjects here are interesting: Where did John Wilkes Booth run after he shot Lincoln? Nate Larson shows in his series “Escape Routes” that the path Booth took is a mix of truck stops, suburbs, highways, and back roads.
The Atlantic’s CityLab writes about citizens’ rights to photograph and videotape the police, discussing some of the same cases covered in this National Press Club panel with local officials we reported on in 2013.
“When I photograph my subjects, I do not set out to construct a narrative, though each photograph ends up marking moments and landmarks from my life.” A photo essay by Texan photographer Armando Alvarez.
Local Craigslist ad seeks mustachioed individual to pose with turtles. I hope this is real, and that we get to see the resulting images.
Pete Souza tweets that this is last term in the White House.
It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Grants up to $10,000 are up for grabs.
Imagine yourself decidedly out of town with these Icelandic mountain peaks in blue by Andy Lee.
Sony and the Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand trained the world’s first Octographer because they’re good with animals and cameras but now how words work, I guess.

You hear that warning klaxon? It’s reminding you that tomorrow is your final chance to see the 2015 Exposed DC Photography Show! So run, don’t walk to Capital Fringe HQ at 1358 Florida Ave NE this Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 8 p.m. for our closing reception. There’s no charge to come in and spend some time with these 42 fabulous local photographs, alongside the Exposed team and many of the photographers themselves! Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar, so we hope you’ll stop by for a visit. The photos are for sale at the reception, or via our online marketplace through April 11. And while you’re at the reception you can nab a copy of our official exhibition program for $10, or order it online here.

And now here’s this week’s round-up of photography-related tidbits:

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should know the cherry blossoms reach their peak bloom this Saturday through next Tuesday. The Cherry Blossom Festival Parade is Saturday, and there are a ton more events to partake in and photograph. If you’re not up for the crowds at the Tidal Basin, get the Cherry Picker app from the National Journal to find a tree near you, or head straight to my favorite spots Dumbarton Oaks or Kenwood.
Congrats to photography-centered gallery Vivid Solutions, and its partner gallery, Honfleur (which hosted one of our most fun photography exhibits with local fashion designers in 2009) for winning Washington City Paper’s Staff Pick for “Best One-Two Gallery Punch.“
The Fairfax County Parks Authority has finally agreed on a new photography permit policy which cuts fees, but which fails to address many other concerns voiced by photographers, according to Kat Forder.
Momenta Workshops is now on Instagram: @momentaworkshops
The Creative Media Institute offers a four-week seminar over the summer for photographers and videographers.
Barb Peacock spent 33 years capturing the subtle changes in her small New England town.
Madge Stager, who was a photo editor for the Associated Press for 40 years before she retired in 2009, died Monday at the age of 61.
“I have an anecdote for you,” said Elliott Erwitt. “I was hired to do a fashion shoot with a monkey. And the monkey was supposed to ape the same movements as the model. I discovered that my day rate was $250 a day. And the monkey’s day rate was $350 a day. This is a true story.”
Apple is killing off its iPhoto program and has begun replacing it with the new Photos app.
Photo blog It’s Just Light advises you on which waterproof cameras to get for your summer snorkeling trips.
“This is what happens when you leave a GoPro out on the sea ice.” Or: scenes from a nightmare penguin dentistry school.
A pretty incredible Astronomy Picture of the Day of the April 4 lunar eclipse over the Golden Gate Bridge.
A heartwarming story of a polar bear and his snowball. Play first, then sleep.

Friday Links: April 3, 2015

April 3, 2015 By Heather Goss

A photo posted by Albert “Pootie” Ting (@pootie_ting) on Apr 3, 2015 at 8:26am PDT

You have one more chance to see the 2015 Exposed DC Photography Show! Come down to Capital Fringe HQ at 1358 Florida Ave NE on Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 8 p.m. for our closing reception. This is the casual version of our opening night: Entry is free, and beverages will be available for purchase at the bar. The Exposed team and lots of the photographers will be there, so we hope you’ll swing by for a last chance to see these incredible images in person. You can buy them in person at the reception, or online through April 11 at our marketplace. At the reception you can also pick up a copy of our official exhibition program for $10, or online here, which would show your D.C. love prominently on your coffee table or make a great gift for that friend with the stars and bars tattoo.

We’ll also be hosting our monthly happy hour on Tuesday, April 7, 6 p.m., at Local 16. Photographers and photography fans are all welcome — we’ll have a space reserved for us, and $5 happy hour deals until 10 p.m.

And now let’s see what’s happening around the internet:

As staff photographer and picture editor Jose R. Lopez retires after three decades at The New York Times, he looks back on a favorite image, where all the elements came together.
NPR has a new feature called A Photo I Love by Claire O’Neill, combining photographs and audio. One good one explores a historic Chicago Tribune photo; another features an interview with astronaut Reid Wiseman about the photos he took and tweeted from space.
How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group – Global Population Speak Out – thought that the simplest way would be to show people.
Johan Bävan documents stay-at-home dads in Sweden looking after their children.
Photographer, Philip-Lorca diCorcia discusses his ongoing project, East of Eden.
Ugaaso Abukar Boocow has become an Instagram sensation by sending out stunning photos and videos from an unlikely place: poor, long-suffering Somalia.
Hamid Sardar-Afkhami’s images depict the people of Mongolian Taïga and their relationship with reindeer.
Chip Kahn was announced as the Leica Store DC Oskar Barnack Wall winner for April.
The Library of Congress posted to Flickr a bunch of photos submitted without info, and readers helped solve the mysteries.
Artists are using Instagram to become their own art dealers.
Hopping on the bandwagon of making women feel ashamed of their bodies, Instagram censors photos of a fully-clothed woman on her period.
Hi-Fructose features Silvie De Burie’s photographs of psychedelic patterns in coral reefs.
An angry mob detained photographers in West Virginia for the crime of not being locals. The editors note is A+.
A Navy-trained California sea lion practices attaching a clamp to a simulated mine on a dock in San Diego.