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Friday Links: March 6, 2015

March 6, 2015 By James Calder

Adaptation by Noe Todorovich of her winning "Morning Paper" image — Adaptation by Noe Todorovich of her winning photograph “Morning Paper“

The snow has had its last hurrah (right?), the sun is out, and the forecast for Thursday’s Exposed DC Photography Show opening is sunny and mild! So get your tickets now and get ready to enjoy your free Bluejacket beer in the courtyard at 1358 NE! After you’ve done that, treat yourself to this week’s pile of links:

Suspect Device opens tonight at Leica Store DC. We’re pretty excited about it after getting a sneak peak at the show’s video earlier this week.
Hamiltonian is extending its call for artists for its fellowship program to March 14.
Four Chicago Sun-Times photographers were among 15 staffers who took buyouts last Friday. They had been rehired in March this year after being laid off in 2013 along with the rest of the Sun-Times photography department.
World Press Photo announced that, based on new evidence, they’ve revoked a controversial First Place award.
We’ve been forced to endure our share of slush around here lately, but these photos of “Slurpee waves” off Nantucket are beautiful.
“Mediocre forces good out of the market place and great all but disappears” – Kenneth Jarecke opines on the demise of photojournalism as art.
Ukrainian photojournalist Serhiy Nikolayev was killed in shelling in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. His newspaper says he wasn’t there on assignment.
Peter Lik’s artistic merits may be debatable, but the supercilious photographer – who claims to have sold the world’s most expensive photograph last year – has built a terrifyingly successful market for his work.
A weasel catches a ride on the back of woodpecker and a photographer catches it. No, really.
An octopus has figured out how to work a camera. We advise sheltering in place during the great cephalopod uprising.
The final episode of Invisible Photograph video series explains how particle physicists are using photography at the Large Hadron Collider.
Smithsonian Magazine just announced the finalists of its 12th annual photo contest. Readers can vote for their favorite
Meanwhile Smithsonian tells visitors they’re still welcome to take selfies but “leave the sticks in your bags“.
Chilean volcano Villarrica erupted beautifully on Tuesday.
Serious Eats has put together an excellent beginners guide to food photography.
The Financial Times writes at length on “Why photobooks are booming in digital age“.
Along the tiger’s trail: where are the cats found and why? Field surveys are performed on foot for months across vast areas of India. New word alert: pugmark!

Friday Links: February 27, 2015

February 27, 2015 By Heather Goss

Have you gotten tickets to our Exposed DC Photography Show opening yet? Pick yours up before they’re all gone!

RIP the great Leonard Nimoy, who died this morning. Known to most of us as Spock, Nimoy was also a lifelong photographer.
When “photoshop” became a verb: The interesting history of software manipulation.
An interview with Ronald K. Fierstein, author of the new book, “A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War.”
Why your photograph in a National Park may be illegal.
Hollywood food stylists explain how they get that Cubano sandwich picture perfect.
“I want to introduce white America to people who they might never have met, and I want them to fall in love too.” An interview with photographer Ruddy Roye.
Photos of, and by, America’s first lady photojournalist.
Portraits of men with their cats. Real men.
From ending violence to commemorating the past, Holly Falconer documents the reasons women march.
French photographer Aurélien Chauvaud documents the eccentric riders of Shanghai’s motorcycle sidecar subculture.
It takes more than just an Instagram filter to recreate that eighties high school portrait style.
“I’ve come to learn that photographing a person looking away from the lens can convey thoughtfulness, even deep emotion.” New York Times staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno finds herself shooting instinctively from her subjects’ point of view.
Eduardo Leal ventured to El Alto to better understand the sisterhood behind the spectacle of Bolivia’s famous cholitas luchadoras.
A pair of squirrels with insanely adorable ears “build” a snowman together. Some creative prop-work by Russian photographer Vadim Trunov.
Indonesian man sleeps, eats, plays and even fights with his best buddy, a seven-year-old, 400 pound Bengal tiger.

Friday Links: February 20, 2015

February 20, 2015 By James Calder

Electric Blue (no filter) by number7cloud

Advance tickets ($14) are still available for the big opening reception of our 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show on March 12! You won’t want to miss it – two floors of amazing local photography, a first look at Capital Fringe‘s fantastic new home, and delicious, complimentary craft brews from Bluejacket. Get your tickets now before they’re all gone!

There’s a new photo collective in town! Contrario Collective launched this week, and is comprised of local photographers Katie Fielding, Emma McAlary, Victoria Milko, Farrah Skeiky, and Noe Todorovich.
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities today launched their 2015 Art Bank Call.
In the wake of the disqualification of a large number of images from this year’s World Press Photo contest due to excessive post-processing, the New York Times’ Lens Blog asked several participants from the competition, along with other photographers, to kick off a debate on the rules and ethics of digital photojournalism.
A splendid addition to the “unusual animal friends pairing” files – Ingo the shepherd dog and Poldi the little owl, beautifully photographed by Tanja Brandt.
It’s so freaking cold that Niagara Falls has frozen over for the second time in a month. But it does make for some rather excellent photographs.
While it may feel like we’re living within 35 miles of the Arctic Circle right about now, all the people in these portraits by Cristian Barnett actually do.
The first Instagram photograph ever was of a stray dog near a taco stand in Mexico. Just one fun fact learned from this Marketplace interview with Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom.
The new book “The Family Acid” showcases work by photographer Roger Steffens. Best known for his iconic shots of rock and roll legends, his collection of personal snapshots of life in the 1970s has found new life thanks to social media.
In the future, the traditional Mongolian nomadic lifestyle may only exist in museum. Photographer Daesung Lee brings light to the country’s challenge in his unique series of photographs of real-life dioramas, “Futuristic Archaeology.”
Photographer Joshua Nowicki stumbled upon these beautifully bizarre sand formations on a beach in Saint Joseph, Michigan.
Eric Fischer used geotag information to create a series of fascinating maps comparing the places in cities where tourists and locals take photos.
“I hope the work brings up questions about our landscape, our place within it, and the collective roles and responsibilities in how and why we shape it the way we do.” Victoria Sambunaris on her recent, epic photo book Taxonomy of a Landscape.
When tirades between Russians and Ukrainians overwhelmed photographer Oksana Yushko’s Facebook feed, she issued a plea for understanding. Soon, love followed.
Extraordinary new video footage this week captured the first ever Amur (Siberian) tigers to be filmed in China.

Friday Links: February 13, 2015

February 13, 2015 By Heather Goss

Tickets are on sale now for the opening night of our huge 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show! Join us for two floors of D.C. photography, a first look at Capital Fringe HQ, and tasty brews from Bluejacket. See you on March 12!

Take note Fairfax County – St. Louis County parks department drops its photography permit requirement.
Chris Suspect has announced a second edition of his photobook “Suspect Device” which features images from more than 30 years of D.C.’s hardcore music scene.
The Washington Post’s excellent In Sight photo blog has launched Off the Grid – “a new weekly feature spotlighting the work of photographers who document lifestyles a little further and farther afield from the bustle and chaos of modern civilization.” Their first feature: preserving the tradition of reindeer herding in Scandinavia’s Sami culture. You can submit your series for consideration by emailing insight@washpost.com.
The Columbus Museum of Art is hosting what may be the largest mobile photo exhibition in a major museum in United States history.
Dina Livotsky photographed fashion week events in London, Paris, and New York on assignment. Her mission: Photograph fashion week like it’s never been photographed before.
Puerto Rico has the highest prevalence of albinism and HPS in the world. Photographer Adriana Monsalve tries to dispel misconceptions about sufferers in her beautiful series “Clear As Black.”
Congrats to Exposed DC alum Brett Davis, this month’s Oskar Barnack Wall winner at the Leica Store DC.
Unless you’re a photography buff, you probably have no idea what the people behind some of the most famous photos in the world actually look like. Tim Mantoani, however, aims to fix all that.
Mads Nissen’s photograph of two Russian gay men embracing was named the World Press Photo of the Year for 2014. WPP says it disqualifies 20% of its finalists for being manipulated.
Sand grains are beautiful.
An American scientist is helping the endangered Siberian tiger make a comeback; Smithsonian Magazine’s February cover story features a gorgeous snowy tiger portrait.

Friday Links: February 6, 2015

February 5, 2015 By James Calder

Don’t forget to head over to Right Proper Brewing in Shaw this coming Tuesday for our February happy hour/meetup. We hope to see not only the usual Exposed DC crowd, but also our friends from IGDC, APA|DC, ASMPDC, and the Leica Store!

Tomorrow four D.C. photographers – Clarissa Villondo, Alex Schelldorf, Matthew Brazier and Michael Andrade – will stage the the 9:30 Club’s first pop-up music photography exhibit.
Photographers are complaining about a little yellow car ruining their photos of the picturesque English village of Bibury.
Brad Wilson takes studio portraits of wild animals, and here PetaPixel publishes a ton of his owl portraits. And they are intense.
Andrew Fladeboe will see Brad’s owl portraits and raise you his stunning series about working dogs called “The Shepherd’s Realm.”
Arlington Arts Center was awarded a grant to operate for the next two years.
Colossal has a 10-minute documentary about photographer Michael Paul Smith, whose “broad life experiences lead him to the creation of Elgin Park, a fictional 20th century town filled with miniature 1/24th-scale models of cars and buildings. Smith mixes his carefully crafted model sets with die-cut automobiles and real-life backdrops, taking advantage of an optical illusion known as forced perspective.”
In narcissistic self-cannibalism news, the selfie toaster – eat your own face, on a slice of toast!
A pilot crashed his plane, killing himself and a passenger, because they were distracted taking selfies in the cockpit.
The F-35 Lightning II fighter gets ice in its beard during extreme weather testing at a U.S. Air Force laboratory.
“Last week, Commander Chris Hadfield (of International Space Station fame) tweeted this image, asking what could have caused such strange columns to form in rocks.” So Erik Klemetti answered.
Nikon will reportedly announce a special version of the D810 full frame DSLR next week that’s designed specifically for astrophotography.
A look inside the first book illustrated exclusively with photographs. Biologist Anna Atkins used sunprints inside her 1843 book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. Beautiful.
Photographer Manu Brabo has been embedded in Ukraine covering the conflict in and around Donetsk for several weeks.
Tiger camera traps in India have captured way fewer than they’d hoped.