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Friday Links: November 6, 2015

November 6, 2015 By James Calder

Registration for our first free 2015 photography class with Knowledge Commons DC opens today! Learn tips to take envy-inducing photos of your food with Exposed pal Samer Farha with tasty dishes from Birch & Barley on November 14 (ETA: Class is full! Sign up for the wait list here). Sign up soon because the class will fill up fast! Tomorrow registration opens for our street photography class with Exposed winner Mukul Ranjan, and open for sign ups later this week, we’ve brought back Chris Williams for his super fun class photographing airplanes at Gravelly Point, and talented wedding and art photographer Sarah Hodzic will teach you the art of the Holga (camera and film provided).

Our monthly happy hour is next Tuesday, November 10, at Lena’s, a brand new restaurant and bar across the street from the Braddock Road metro.
Go to a free film developing workshop this Saturday at Artomatic taught by Exposed DC pal Angela Kleis.
The deadline for the Air & Space Magazine photo contest is November 15. The National Geographic deadline is November 16.
The 2015 annual Women Photojournalists of Washington juried photography exhibition debuts at FotoWeekDC today. The show features 26 images on women’s issues from WPOW members, chosen from more than 150 entries, and will travel to universities and galleries across the United States.
Fascinating photos of North Korea’s illicit economy from Reuter’s photographer Damir Sagolj.
“These fearless female visionaries spotlighted identity politics, the body and sexuality.” Dazed profiles 10 woman photographers whose work you should be following.
A Bronx photographer’s images got the charges against him dropped, and the arresting officer prosecuted instead.
Sardonic pictures of fashionistas by Miles Ladin focus on the intersection of celebrity and culture.
It wasn’t a stunt for the opening of the new James Bond movie: Two dudes in jetpacks fly in formation with an Emirates A380 over Dubai.
Skywatchers in Michigan were treated to an incredible aurora earlier this week.
“Manhattan” is the unofficial name for two once-prestigious high-rises in Oderbruch, near Berlin. Stephanie Steinkopf’s images, taken over four years, show the poverty and camaraderie that exists just outside Germany’s capital.
While visiting a port in Amsterdam, Raymond Waltjen stopped to admire a large ship that passed by close to where he was standing. This inspired his series “Destination” which captures the quiet beauty of solitary freight ships.
A reissue of Philippe Halsman’s “Jump Book” displays his famed method for getting his subjects to let down their defenses and offer a glimpse of their personalities.
Victoria Crayhon documents her use of old marquees to display clever, poetic messages.
How sheepdogs are helping to save penguins from foxes in Australia.

Friday Links: August 7, 2015

August 7, 2015 By James Calder

its a staircase with a skylight at the top by Jill Slater

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for 6pm Tuesday, August 11 when photographers and photography lovers will gather at Right Proper Brewing for our monthly DC Photography Happy Hour.

Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has opened its 3rd annual photo contest. Send them your best military and civilian airplane and spacecraft images and your impressive astrophotography by November 15.
Investigative photojournalist Ruben Espinosa was found shot in Mexico City last week. Free speech advocacy group Article 19 told The Guardian that “the killing of Espinosa marked a new level of violence against journalists in Mexico.”
National Geographic has announced the winners of its 2015 Traveler Photo Contest.
During the almost two decades that Nathan Benn was a staff photographer at National Geographic, he estimates he shot around 1,000 rolls of 35mm film a year. Yet, he probably saw about 10 percent of those photos.
After 85 years, Blacks Photography is closing down across Canada. This radio documentary about the company and the people who worked there is excellent. Meanwhile, Lens Rentals Canada is also calling it quits.
Last year Washington Post staff photojournalist Jahi Chikwendiu spent several days and nights documenting the scenes of protest and face-offs between law enforcement and local residents in Ferguson, MO after the death of Michael Brown. A year later, Washington Post photojournalist Jabin Botsford retraced Chikwendiu’s steps and photographs to document the many ways the community of Ferguson has changed, and, in some cases, stayed the same.
70 years ago this week the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 of its 350,000 citizens. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Photographer Issei Kato has paired archive images of the ruins with how they look today.
Survivors of the atomic bomb attacks in Japan talk about their experiences, and their fears about the government’s plans to reboot the country’s nuclear reactors taken offline after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
As a huge and controversial process of redevelopment sweeps across south London’s Brixton neighborhood, photographer Georgios Makkas captures the railway-arch businesses fearing for their future amid potential rent hikes.
An ambitious new survey of photography in Cuba aims to challenge long-held notions about how the island has been portrayed.
Google and MIT researchers demo an algorithm that lets you take clear photos through reflections. Astonishing.

Photograph the WW2 Flyover of the National Mall on May 8 with Exposed DC!

March 31, 2015 By Heather Goss

Robb Hohmann - Final Approach — Final Approach – Robb Hohmann. You can see this photo in the Exposed DC Photography Show at Capital Fringe through April 11, 2015.

Update: Our National Parks permit was approved! We’ll have a small tent and rest area, and Exposed magazines available for sale. We’ll have our banners out so we’ll be easy to find!

Living in the nation’s capital affords us some unique opportunities for photography. On May 8, 2015, we’re about to get a doozy. Between 30 and 60 airplanes that flew in World War II are going to do a flyover of the National Mall to celebrate the 70th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) day.

Join Exposed DC for a meetup at the Jefferson Memorial, where we’ll get an incredible view over the water of the airplanes flying at 1,000 feet over Independence Avenue. The first aircraft will fly over the Lincoln Memorial at 12:10 p.m., and the flyover is expected to last between 25 and 40 minutes.

We’ll also have a special guest: Colonel Scott Willey of the U.S. Air Force (retired). Scott Willey is a retired US Air Force colonel who has been around airplanes all his life. He is the senior docent at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center, is a volunteer member of the restoration team that works on all of the museum’s artifacts, and lectures widely on aerospace topics. In addition, he is the principal author of the nearly 1800-page set of docent guides that covers both the Mall and Udvar-Hazy displays.

You can find tons of information about the flyover at Air & Space Magazine, which is the media sponsor for the event (and where your lovely Exposed DC director is an editor), including other viewing sites if you sadly don’t wish to join us, what aircraft will be flying over, and WWII-era spotter cards you can download and print, or view directly on your smartphone.

Stay tuned for more info, including swag from Exposed DC, photography tips from our aircraft spotter experts, and more!

Friday Links

January 31, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Memorial Bridge by Wolfkann — Memorial Bridge by Kevin Wolf

This week we have cat photos from a true animal photography master, electric blue volcano images from Java, the photo inspiration behind a Grammy winning song, and a tiny Batman roaming across Texas.

Everyone with an Instagram account thinks they’re an expert, but here are lessons from Walter Chandoha, an actual cat photography master. This man has been photographing cats for 60 years, and even Grumpy Cat would be pleased with his work.
Air & Space Magazine announced the winners of their first annual photo contest.
Narciso Contreras, the photographer cut by the AP last week, spoke with PDN about what he saw as an unfair process.
Seniors in a German retirement community recreated famous movie scenes. Jack and Rose look as in love as ever.
They’re not tigers, but the newest lion cubs at the National Zoo are still pretty adorable.
Grammy winner Lorde gathered inspiration for her song “Royals” from a picture of from Kansas City Royals star George Brett. The photo originally appeared in a 1976 issue of National Geographic.
Johnson Press, a UK newspaper chain, let go of all of their photographers.
In Focus shared images of the snow storm that shut down the South this week.
The snow also reached the Outer Banks, and the two environments colliding is pretty fantastic.
Photographer Oliver Grunewalld has been capturing pictures of volcanoes that are straight out of a sci-fi flick. The fantastic blue glow comes from the combustion of sulfuric gases.
Hold the Alamo, a tiny batman is making his way across Texas. Photos by Remi Noel.
The New York Public Library held a #shelfie day on twitter, where readers shared photos of their favorite book shelves. #YOLO
Photographer Roger May photographed people in West Virginia dealing with the chemical spill that has destroyed their drinking water.
Head down the photographic rabbit hole with this selection of 22 online photo magazines.
Benjamin Moser is going through the Susan Sontag archives at UCLA, and writing a book about the her life.
In tiger news, a Phoenix man found a young tiger on his neighbors patio. The local news footage and tiger sounds are glorious.