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In Frame: December 28, 2016

December 28, 2016 By Caroline Space

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This is clearly not D.C., but it’s taken by, Bo Tan, a Chinese photographer currently based in the district. As a person and a photographer, I have particular interests: the colors green, blue, and orange, mountains, gas stations, and mid-afternoon sunlight that softens hues a little while still creating odd shadows. Bo’s image has all of that in a wonderfully framed scene.

I love that Exposed DC has the ability to illuminate places that local photographers travel and document. I’m excited to see my peers’ adventures on my screen, vicariously living through your pictures. Keep making clever frames my D.C. metro friends!

(And don’t forget to enter your photographs — of D.C. by D.C. photographers — in our annual contest before January 11.)

Friday Links: October 30, 2015

October 30, 2015 By Heather Goss

Halloween decor, Mount Pleasant, Washington 2014 by brunofish

Save the date for our next session of free photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC this November! Take lessons in food photography, street photography, Holga photography, and photographing airplanes from Gravelly Point. Learn more about it at our next monthly happy hour on November 10. Keep up with all our upcoming events (including the impending 10th anniversary photo contest and exhibition) with our newsletter.
Artomatic 2015 opens tonight with a huge building full of photography and other art. This year’s location is in Hyattsville, a short walk from the New Carrollton metro stop.
FotoWeekDC starts November 7. See the whole events calendar here.
Dog photobombs couple’s engagement shoot in the best way possible: “He’s a show stopper.”
Before her death at just 22 years old, Francesca Woodman became one of the most seductive and haunting photographers of all time.
“But [Mayor Bowser’s] first major arts decision, and perhaps the one that will most profoundly affect culture in the District for years to come — is bizarre and unaccountable.”
Magnum Photos has partnered with UN Women to present images on the 15th anniversary of the UN Security Council resolution that recognized the critical importance of women’s participation in peacemaking and peacebuilding.
Carlos Barria photographed a person born in each year China’s one-child policy was in existence, from a man born in 1979 to baby Jin Yanxi born in 2014.
The crazy world of flavorings, colorings, sweetners, preservatives, and thickeners — some of modern America’s favorite foods taken apart in a series of still-life images.
The Atacama desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth, is awash in pink flowers after crazy El Nino rains.
There’s a pumpkin in every pot for zoo animals this time of year.

Friday Links: August 14, 2015

August 14, 2015 By Heather Goss

Iced Coffee Popsicles by Caroline Angelo

Italian photographer Stefano Cerio documents Chinese amusement parks in hibernation in his upcoming book “Chinese Fun.”
See Wayne Levin’s gorgeous pictures of schools of Hawaiian fish in hypnotizing shapes at D.C.’s National Academy of Sciences.
Outside magazine has a slideshow of awful scenes from the wildfires raging in California.
For decades, nobody had explored the vast photo archives of Metronome Magazine, which closed in 1961, until Pierre Vudrag decided to take a look. His selections from the archives are now featured in a traveling exhibition, “The Metronome Jazz Photo Collection.”
Members of Uganda’s persecuted LGBT community celebrated Gay Pride this week in an undisclosed location near the capital Kampala.
There are a few galleries out there of the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked on Thursday, but this one by the Guardian is quite nice.
Lachryphagy is the practice of drinking tears for nutrients. It’s what these butterflies are doing to a pair of turtles in Ecuador.
In the mid-1970s a young engineer invented the digital photographic process. Some of his bosses were not impressed. His employer? Eastman Kodak.
96 million black polythene “shade balls” fill a reservoir in drought-hit Los Angeles to protect against evaporation.
Envious of the endless barrage of friends’ gorgeous vacation photos on social media? Guardian readers share their soggy British holiday pictures.
A fox decided to take a nap and be adorable on this second story window in London.

Friday Links: January 16, 2015

January 16, 2015 By Meaghan Gay

We announced the winners of our 9th annual Exposed DC photo contest this week.
Photographer Zhang Xiao explored 9,000 miles of China’s coastline and the photos are fantastic.
Did you know that the work of Robert Frank lives right in our backyard? “The Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery of Art is the largest repository of materials related to renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank“
The FAA will permit drones for journalism, starting with CNN.
The Library of Congress is celebrating the 7th birthday of their Flickr Commons account with a virtual game that let’s you explore it.
“In deeply conservative Kabul, dozens of Afghans flock to the Oqab Paintball Club each week to to take their mind off decades of war.” Photos by Omar Sobhani.
Photographer Danielle Guenther creates scenes depicting the beautiful chaos of parenting.
The Women Photojournalists of Washington will be holding the Fourth Annual Photo Seminar and Portfolio Review On Valentine’s Day. Tickets are available now.
An Autochrome exhibit at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa shows the early years of color photography.
The movie Finding Vivian Maier was nominated for an Oscar in best documentary feature.
After a lifetime of taking photos while dodging bullets, James Natchwey is going to receive the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Dan Bannino has made amazing photos of shelter dogs dressed as writers. The writers span hundreds of years of history, but Bannino sadly only managed to find two women writers to emulate.
Local photographer Keith Lane recently had his book Canals added to the bookstore at the International Center for Photography.
The New York Times is trying to learn the history behind this Gordon Parks photograph of the Jim Crow South.
The ultra-orthadox Israeli newspaper Hamevaser took out Angela Merkel and Anne Hidalgo from a photo of the march in Paris last week. “Binyamin Lipkin, editor of Hamevaser, said the newspaper is a family publication that must be suitable for all audiences, including young children.” Phew, we can imagine how the sight of the type of human that gave birth to you would be traumatizing for a child.
“Karen Mullarkey is one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time.” This two part interview is from last year, but well worth the read.
AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot and injured covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest in Pakistan.
For all of the film lovers out there, Barbara Flueckiger, professor at the Institute of Cinema Studies, University of Zurich has put together a Timeline of Historical Film Colors.
Andrea Bruce has a wonderful series in the New York Times called Revealing a Slowly Changing Cuba.
And finally, two filmmakers captured high speed footage of a Siberian tiger being released to the wild.