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Friday Links: August 22, 2014

August 22, 2014 By exposeddc

Another Friday is upon us! September is coming up soon, so save the dates for three great classes we’re sponsoring during Knowledge Commons DC’s fall session. Learn street photography techniques, how to take an impromptu portrait, or tips to catch the airplanes taking-off over Gravelly Point. Registration starts eight-days prior for each class. They’re free but they’ll fill up quickly!

Unrest in Ferguson continues, and earlier this week Getty photographer Scott Olsen was arrested while reporting on it…
…but the majority of the protests have been peaceful.
Gordon Parks’ 1950s photo essay on civil rights-era America is as relevant as ever.
On the other side of the globe, Andrew Quilty has created this powerful photo essay about a group of Kurdish soldiers.
D.C. Superior Court finalized the Corcoran’s split between GWU and NGA this week, stating that no works can be transferred outside the District without the D.C. attorney general’s approval.
Even we were hesitant to click on this photo series about Mystery Meat.
Humans of New York becomes Humans of the World and moves to Iraq.
Here’s a great piece about E. Brady Robinson’s art desk series (can you spot the card from our Flaunt show in the last photo?)
This story reminded some of us why we no longer ride in helicopters over volcanoes.
All across America, artists are taking over billboards.
Cage-free shark photographer Michael Muller survived Shark Week.
Two Swiss photographers remind us why hobbies make life better.
We wish we had been invited to these twin tigers’ Piñata Birthday Party!

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August 15, 2014 By James Calder

We hope you’ve been paying attention to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by police last Saturday. There are tons of photos on Twitter, including the police using tear gas on largely-peaceful protestors and an Al Jazeera tv crew (before taking down their equipment) on Wednesday. That same night, police closed a McDonald’s and ushered out all these “dangerous criminals” (they also arrested two reporters, including Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post). The New York Times put together the photos on all our minds, those from Ferguson in 2014 and the Civil Rights Movement half a century ago. Here at home, Howard University students posed for a powerful photo to protest Brown’s killing. Lastly, it’s always worth a reminder, because the authorities often forget: “Citizens have the right to take pictures of anything in plain view in a public space, including police officers and federal buildings.”
“It’s as though we’ve become unsure of our ability to feel, and need to outsource moments to a team, in the hope that collective approval will stand in for meaning.” A Boston Globe op-ed asks if we’re too busy sharing moments to truly experience them.
Photographer Christina De Middel takes spam email she’s received and creates beautifully composed, fictitious portraits of the imaginary senders.
David Waldorf works in both the commercial and fine art worlds, but his cinematic photographs of trailer park residents in Sonoma, California are striking and unsettling in their detail.
“If we’re big enough to fight a war, we should be big enough to look at it.” The fascinating story of The War Photo No One Would Publish.
A survey of photographers who’ve recently had photo books published, listing details of the deals they struck with their respective publishers.
First person account by fashion photographer Rachel Scroggins of a photo she made that ended up being broadly published with neither credit nor permission. Alternative description: Groundhog Day.
Guys on Instagram are now doing their own #MakeupTransformation photos, and it’s priceless.
Crazy images of waves caused by a tidal bore that have created a popular spectator sport in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. These photos make us want to bathe in some…different water, pronto.
The Capital Weather Gang blogged: “Is HDR photography enhancing or defiling how we see weather and nature?“
In 1974, Daniel Sorine photographed a couple of mimes performing in Central Park, only to discover 35 years later that he had captured a then little-known Robin Williams on film.
“The people Stanton photographs are reduced to whatever decontextualized sentence or three he chooses to use along with their photo.” A critique of the popular Humans of New York series.
Lida Moser passed away this week just before her 94th birthday. The highly acclaimed photographer lived in Rockville, Maryland and really hated being pigeonholed.
Two of the women in Garry Winogrand’s iconic 1964 photograph “World’s Fair, New York City” recollect that summer afternoon.
Think you’ve seen some cool cat photos on the interwebs? You ain’t seen nothing ’til you’ve seen Vincent J. Musi’s shots for National Geographic.

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August 8, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

The City Paper has a short review on the photo exhibit at the U.S. Botanical Gardens.
Copyright law is complicated and confusing, especially when Wikipedia argues that since this endangered crested black macaque took the photo himself, the photographer has no rights to it. But if David Slater doesn’t have the copyright, who does? (Hint: Not the monkey.)
Photographer Jonathan French will be honored next week at the Third Annual East of the River Distinguished Artist Awards Reception.
“The winners of the Popcap 14 prize for contemporary African photography cover everything from fictional set ups of tribal rituals to the impact of mining on forgotten communities.” You can see some of the winners over on The Guardian.
This is the kind of “baby” photo session we can get behind: one with a dog.
At the Leica Store, this month’s Oskar Barnack Wall winning photograph was shot by Kashif Javaid.
Notorious Russian “rooftoppers” Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov take death-defying photos from high atop skyscrapers around the world. Their latest destination: Hong Kong.
The yet to open National Museum of African American History and Culture made an acquisition of rare photographs of Martin Luther King Jr.
Smile for the cameras! Every attendee at two concerts last year in Boston were photographed by the city. “We’re not talking about old school black and white surveillance cameras. More like technology that analyzes every passerby for height, clothing, and skin color.” Yikes.
A shrinking salt lake leaves an extinct volcano’s cone exposed in the Iranian desert, as seen in this amazing photo from the ISS.
Dear Leader really, really, really likes lubricant.
German photographer Herlinde Koelbl has published Targets, a photo documentary book featuring shooting targets from 30 countries used during military training.
This is the last week to catch the Magnum exhibit Unintended Journeys at the Natural History Museum.
“Troy Holden didn’t carry around a camera when he first moved to San Francisco in 1996. Now, he wishes he had. Since then, his adopted city has changed quite a bit.”
Care for the Wild International is asking tourists to stop taking selfies with tigers while traveling abroad, as the money they spend funds animal abuse.

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August 1, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Roll up! Roll up for the magical Friday Links tour! This week, be amazed at the announcement of a new art space at American University, be shocked at photos of hate today that look a lot like photos of hate 50 years ago, and say “huh?” to the news of Flickr’s new licensing option. Step right up!

The STRATA Collective is having a show titled “Faith” at the Leica Gallery that opens next Saturday night, August 9. Fingers crossed for some George Michael dancing rear photos.
The Broken Light Collective is an online gallery providing a supportive environment for photographers affected by mental illness. The group just opened its first show “From Darkness to Light” at the Fountain Gallery in New York City. More in the New York Times.
Some great news for DC artists: The Alper Initiative for Washington Art is starting at AU’s Katzen Arts Center. “The initiative will dedicate space for displaying the work of Washington artists, including more tightly focused, historical shows; development of space for archives of Washington art (available for both members of the public and AU students); an endowment to support more programming of events, gatherings, lectures and films; and digitization of AU’s growing collection of Washington art.”
When an unusual wedding photo went viral, the internet made up some crazy, racist story, but not surprisingly none if it was true. The Post tracked down the bride to get the real story, which was much more interesting.
The National Press Photographers Association announced the opening of the 2014 Short Grants entry period, including the news that grant awards have been doubled to $6,000.
PhotoPhilanthropy has some great mobile photography tips from @Koci.
The Dallas Morning News printed a photo of people protesting immigrants, and got “six or seven” letters saying how much it reminded them of the Arkansas school integration photos. LIFE has a good collection of photos of the Little Rock Nine, which shows exactly how much history repeats itself.
After three years as photo editor of local blog We Love DC, Brian Mosley has stepped down.
A chance conversation at a Beijing bar led Tomoko Kikuchi to explore the world of drag queens in a society where attitudes have slowly changed.
Local photographer Dan Hendrickson’s photos of Spaceport America in New Mexico were published in Air & Space this week.
Want to know how much editorial clients are paying? There is a wiki for that.
“Directors like Judd Apatow and Quentin Tarantino are pushing movie studios to commit to buying a certain amount of film from Kodak for the next several years” to save the company.
Flickr has a new “licensing experience” they are calling Curated Connections. The program is very short on details.
National Geographic Traveler announced the winners of their 2014 photo contest this week.
And finally, Tuesday was International Tiger Day so we should celebrate with one of the funniest tiger photos ever.

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July 25, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

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Happy Friday y’all! Ready for links? Here goes: Frank Underwood as photographer, BuzzFeed reinvents the photographer’s rights wheel, controversy over photoshoot of poor people, and granting prisoners a photographic wish.

Ansel Adams wasn’t the only early photographer to explore Yosemite. Carleton Watkins also photographed the area in the late 1800’s.
The documentary work by Brenda Ann Kenneally of people living in poverty in Troy, NY caused a barrage of negative internet comments after it was featured in Slate. The New York Times has a good breakdown of the controversy.
This week is the 45th anniversary of the moon landing, so check out some of these rare photos of the Apollo 11 mission.
The New York Daily News laid off 17 journalists this week, including five photographers.
Oh Buzzfeed, this is a tale as old as time. Welcome to D.C., where security guards at Federal buildings enforce rules that don’t exist. “Which ugly Federal building are you?” quiz coming soon.
Border Patrol agents hold boy scouts at gunpoint for taking a picture of them. “The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison,” Fox was quoted as saying.
A D.C. couple had their first photo as an engaged couple taken by Frank Underwood.
The Afghan police officer who killed AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus got the death penalty.
Photographer Mark Strandquist asked hundreds of prisoners a straightforward question — if your cell could look out on one scene, what would it be?
“He noticed that Chinese customers would often make a day out of it — bringing their tea and snacks, getting some shopping done and then treating themselves to a nice nap.” Kevin Frayer documents the not uncommon practice of IKEA shoppers in China taking naps in display rooms.
Wired goes “On the Prowl With Instagram’s Ultimate Street Photographer” Daniel Arnold.
Queen Photobombs Hockey Player’s Selfie. Enough said.
And finally, CityLab shares a video about the National Wildlife Property Repository, which houses millions of “products” of the illegal wildlife trade. The property includes an abundance of tigers.