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Fairfax County to Meet Wednesday, Jan. 21, to Hear Comments on New Photographer Permit Fees (UPDATED 1/22)

January 15, 2015 By exposeddc

Stealth wedding photography by Caroline Angelo
Stealth wedding photography by Caroline Angelo

UPDATE (1/22/2015): Kat has posted a detailed report on her website of what transpired at the meeting last night. In short, it was very positive for photographers! The largest turn out ever seen at a Parks Authority Meeting made their views heard prompting an acknowledgement from Board members that “the process requires immediate change.” The Board thanked the group for educating them about the industry and how the current fee system affects their livelihood.

Next comes the requisite comment period and subsequent committee to decide what actions to recommend. Any changes or adjustments would come into effect April 1, 2015, but Kat is hopeful that the Board will suspend the permit and fee until a decision has been made, and that the final decision will be to completely remove them both.


This is a guest post by Kat Forder; she owns a portrait studio outside of Baltimore, Md.

Next Wednesday, the Fairfax County Park Authority Board will meet to hear public opinion on photography permit fees. These fees are uniquely applied to photographers in public parks – no other businesses or individuals using public parks are charged a special fee – and Fairfax is the only Virginia county to implement such a fee.

This is the last meeting they will hold before voting whether or not to continue requiring photographers to pay permit fees in all Fairfax County Parks. The rate is currently $100 per use in any public park, but the county has new proposed fees which have not yet been made public.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News & Opinion Tagged With: fairfax county, family photography, fees, Kat Forder, parks, Permits, private parks, public parks, small businesses, updated, virginia, wedding photography

A Nasty Case of Photographer’s Block

September 9, 2014 By Kerrin Nishimura

Piazza Dante, Naples, Italy - photo by Kerrin Nishimura
Piazza Dante, Naples, Italy – photo by Kerrin Nishimura

Just over one month ago I moved back to the D.C. area after living in Naples, Italy for two years. I know. Italy! Land of pizza and pasta! How could I move back? Didn’t I want to stay forever?!? Naples is a great city. It’s gritty and dirty but filled with some great people and even greater food. It’s also extremely photogenic. Naples was founded by Greeks over 2,000 years ago. The historic part of town follows the ancient Roman city plan. Under one church you can walk down Roman roads and peek inside a Roman market. Above ground there are hundreds of years of history in the buildings, streets, markets, shops, and families that call this crazy, wonderful city home.

How does any of this relate to photography? [Read more…]

Filed Under: News & Opinion Tagged With: help, Italy, nomad, photographer's block, problem solving, USA

Following the 2014 Winter Olympics in Photos

February 11, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Ice Skates by Noe Todorovich
Ice Skates by Noe Todorovich

If your evening dose of Bob Costas or 3 a.m. livestreaming isn’t satisfying your Olympics fix, there are plenty of other ways to keep track of the Games. Many photographers and athletes in Sochi posting to social media, so we decided to put together a compilation of lists we have found.

Photographer Melissa Lyttle created a Twitter list of photographers at the Games.

Huffington Post Canada compiled a list of Canadian athletes posting to Instagram.

Buzzfeed has their own list of athletes sharing on Instagram.

The New York Times has a list of Russian journalists covering the games and posting to Instagram. It also has a stream of Olympics photos they’re calling the Sochi Photo Firehose; since they disappear after a few moments, it’s like a steady flow of (safe-for-work) Snapchats.

Olympians on Instagram, as compiled by Gizmodo.

And finally, People Magazine published a list of athletes and journalists to follow on Twitter, with a few bonus Instagram-ers.

Filed Under: News & Opinion Tagged With: 2014, Instagram, Olympics, photojournalism, sochi, Sports, twitter, winter

Know Your Rights as a Photographer

November 6, 2013 By Heather Goss

Image by James Calder
Image by James Calder

Last Saturday, Baltimore police arrested Noah Scialom, a contributing photographer to the Baltimore City Paper, while they were breaking up a Halloween party. Scialom, as he reports, had identified himself as press and began photographing the incident. He left the house with the other party goers until he reached the sidewalk, and continued to take pictures, when he was roughly taken to the ground and arrested.

It’s a familiar story to anyone who regularly uses a camera in public, and a source of constant tension between police and the press, between the needs of security and the Constitutional rights of citizens. The National Press Club held a discussion in October on the subject as part of their Free Speech Week, inviting photographers, lawyers, and even a representative from the D.C. Metro Police Department to share their thoughts.

So what rights do you have to record in public? While the answer seems straight-forward to most of us (if it’s in the public realm, we can record it), the courts are only just beginning to define the right through rulings. But this first step is great news for photographers. The nation’s founders probably didn’t predict the prevalence of smartphones in 2013, so having defined rules about how the First Amendment applies to modern-day recording devices benefits everybody. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News & Opinion Tagged With: arrest, authorities, constitutional rights, first amendment, free speech, history, law, law enforcement, legal, photographer, police, rights

News and Notes

October 8, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Shutdown by Brett Davis
Shutdown by Brett Davis
  • Our calendar is bursting with events over the next few weeks. Make sure to check for changes to any venues due to the government shutdown. A talk this Thursday with Gabriela Bulisova hosted by Photoworks has moved due to the closure of Glen Echo Park. While the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian are also closed, the Corcoran is still open and David Levinthal’s War Games is on display until October 27.
  • Speaking of events, FotoWeek is just around the corner. Most exhibits and FotoWeek central do not open until November 1, but now is the time to sign up for workshops or portfolio reviews.
  • Thank you all for your great feedback on our Local Resource Guides. We have updated our Studio Rental Guide with three new locations, thanks to your help. If you know of a printing location we can add to our Printing Services Guide, please let us know.
  • Our Flickr pool now has over 1600 photos! If you would like to be part of our amazing pool of local photographers please join our Flickr Group.
  • We are looking for contributors! If you would like to write for Exposed DC, whether to do exhibit reviews, artist interviews, news updates, or all of the above, please get in touch with us.

Filed Under: News & Opinion Tagged With: calendar, Flickr pool, FotoWeek, News and Notes, Shutdown

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