Happy almost long weekend link lovers! This week we have more bad news from the Corcoran, two grants available to photographers, the changes that were needed at Polaroid, and much more.
- Politico has a collection of photos by M. Scott Mahaskey of the annual tradition of the Old Guard placing flags on the graves at Arlington Cemetery.
- The group Save the Corcoran posted more bad news this week, “All Corcoran staff, including curatorial, except full-time faculty were given 90 day notices on Monday, May 19, 2014.“
- ArtFile Magazine is offering a $500 grant to emerging artists. The grant comes with an in-depth interview that will be published in the magazine this fall.
- Need a new camera? One that comes with a phone? This Guardian review of new smartphone cameras could help.
- Before you use that new smartphone camera, you should read this NPR story on how constantly photographing our lives can alter our memories.
- Winners of the 2014 PDN Photo Annual have been announced. Be prepared to get lost in great images for a while.
- The Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Some of the grants reach $10,000.
- Photographer Eric Lafforgue captured images of North Korea that the government did not want shared.
- “With these three traits in mind: visualization, sharing and affordability, Polaroid went out on a venture to find new product categories that would embody the essence of the brand.” Interesting article on how Polaroid made changes to keep the company alive.
- A wedding photographer that hates wedding photography? Yup.
- Several men are facing charges after a photograph of Rose Cochran, wife of Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, appeared in a political video. Mrs. Cochran has been in a nursing home for 14 years, and is bedridden with dementia.
- And finally, the San Diego Zoo has created a new habitat for the six Sumatran tigers that live there. It has “a waterfall and swimming pool for splashing around, heated rocks for sunbathing, green slopes for running, and shaded nooks for cooling down.”