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Swimming at Blue Hole During Look3

June 21, 2015 By Heather Goss

It’s become a bit of a tradition to grab your closest photographer friends and make the short trip to Charlottesville for the Look3 festival. They don’t hold it every year, but it’s definitely worth going at least once, for the famous photographer sightings (James Natchwey strolled by me in a little shop the year I went), the often phenomenal exhibits, and actually, just hanging around the beautiful countryside surrounding UVa.

This year Chris Suspect headed down to the festival with some of our favorite local photogs, and he sent us this slideshow of their downtime swimming at Blue Hole. Photos by Suspect, Tatiana Gulenkina, Louisa Marie Summer, John Ulaszek, Kate Warren, and Bill Bramble. We could use one of those swimming holes in D.C. right about now.

Friday Links: March 6, 2015

March 6, 2015 By James Calder

Adaptation by Noe Todorovich of her winning "Morning Paper" image — Adaptation by Noe Todorovich of her winning photograph “Morning Paper“

The snow has had its last hurrah (right?), the sun is out, and the forecast for Thursday’s Exposed DC Photography Show opening is sunny and mild! So get your tickets now and get ready to enjoy your free Bluejacket beer in the courtyard at 1358 NE! After you’ve done that, treat yourself to this week’s pile of links:

Suspect Device opens tonight at Leica Store DC. We’re pretty excited about it after getting a sneak peak at the show’s video earlier this week.
Hamiltonian is extending its call for artists for its fellowship program to March 14.
Four Chicago Sun-Times photographers were among 15 staffers who took buyouts last Friday. They had been rehired in March this year after being laid off in 2013 along with the rest of the Sun-Times photography department.
World Press Photo announced that, based on new evidence, they’ve revoked a controversial First Place award.
We’ve been forced to endure our share of slush around here lately, but these photos of “Slurpee waves” off Nantucket are beautiful.
“Mediocre forces good out of the market place and great all but disappears” – Kenneth Jarecke opines on the demise of photojournalism as art.
Ukrainian photojournalist Serhiy Nikolayev was killed in shelling in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. His newspaper says he wasn’t there on assignment.
Peter Lik’s artistic merits may be debatable, but the supercilious photographer – who claims to have sold the world’s most expensive photograph last year – has built a terrifyingly successful market for his work.
A weasel catches a ride on the back of woodpecker and a photographer catches it. No, really.
An octopus has figured out how to work a camera. We advise sheltering in place during the great cephalopod uprising.
The final episode of Invisible Photograph video series explains how particle physicists are using photography at the Large Hadron Collider.
Smithsonian Magazine just announced the finalists of its 12th annual photo contest. Readers can vote for their favorite
Meanwhile Smithsonian tells visitors they’re still welcome to take selfies but “leave the sticks in your bags“.
Chilean volcano Villarrica erupted beautifully on Tuesday.
Serious Eats has put together an excellent beginners guide to food photography.
The Financial Times writes at length on “Why photobooks are booming in digital age“.
Along the tiger’s trail: where are the cats found and why? Field surveys are performed on foot for months across vast areas of India. New word alert: pugmark!

Sneak Preview of Suspect Device Exhibition Video

March 4, 2015 By James Calder

“Suspect Device” opens this Friday, March 6, at Leica Store DC’s gallery with 20 photographs by Exposed alum Chris Suspect. The images in the exhibit are part of Suspect’s eponymous photobook which documents the last four years of D.C.’s longstanding hardcore music scene.

Chris kindly shared this video with us, telling us it will appear in-store at the gallery, except without the accompanying music. We asked him to tell us how the video came about:

I wanted it to represent the photography but also to put the work into context for people wondering what the images are about by using parts of Alec MacKaye’s foreword from the book. Alec really nailed the feelings and thoughts I wanted to impart with the photographs with his words. He did a great job and I think he deserves a lot of recognition for the effort he put forth as well. The song in the video is “Graveyard” by The Suspects, a band I played in during the early to late 90’s. Grave Mistake records will be re-releasing our first record we put out over 20 years ago this year.

Friday Links: February 13, 2015

February 13, 2015 By Heather Goss

Tickets are on sale now for the opening night of our huge 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show! Join us for two floors of D.C. photography, a first look at Capital Fringe HQ, and tasty brews from Bluejacket. See you on March 12!

Take note Fairfax County – St. Louis County parks department drops its photography permit requirement.
Chris Suspect has announced a second edition of his photobook “Suspect Device” which features images from more than 30 years of D.C.’s hardcore music scene.
The Washington Post’s excellent In Sight photo blog has launched Off the Grid – “a new weekly feature spotlighting the work of photographers who document lifestyles a little further and farther afield from the bustle and chaos of modern civilization.” Their first feature: preserving the tradition of reindeer herding in Scandinavia’s Sami culture. You can submit your series for consideration by emailing insight@washpost.com.
The Columbus Museum of Art is hosting what may be the largest mobile photo exhibition in a major museum in United States history.
Dina Livotsky photographed fashion week events in London, Paris, and New York on assignment. Her mission: Photograph fashion week like it’s never been photographed before.
Puerto Rico has the highest prevalence of albinism and HPS in the world. Photographer Adriana Monsalve tries to dispel misconceptions about sufferers in her beautiful series “Clear As Black.”
Congrats to Exposed DC alum Brett Davis, this month’s Oskar Barnack Wall winner at the Leica Store DC.
Unless you’re a photography buff, you probably have no idea what the people behind some of the most famous photos in the world actually look like. Tim Mantoani, however, aims to fix all that.
Mads Nissen’s photograph of two Russian gay men embracing was named the World Press Photo of the Year for 2014. WPP says it disqualifies 20% of its finalists for being manipulated.
Sand grains are beautiful.
An American scientist is helping the endangered Siberian tiger make a comeback; Smithsonian Magazine’s February cover story features a gorgeous snowy tiger portrait.

Friday Links: October 10, 2014

October 10, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

If you didn’t make it to last Friday’s opening reception for the Exposed DC / InstantDC Fall Review, you’re in luck! There’s another one tonight at Washington ArtWorks / Washington School of Photography (we’re not throwing it, but our gallery will be open for viewing) Meanwhile, submitted for your approval, this week’s links:

Did you know National Geographic has a tumblr that features unpublished photos from their archives?
Nicholas Nixon has been photographing his wife and her three sisters every year for the last forty years.
Andy DelGuidice on photographing street festivals in D.C.
Nature photographer Alex Wild is hanging up his lens after spending years fighting copyright infringement.
The City Paper spoke to D.C. photographer Chris Suspect about his concert photography being featured at Photokina. “I didn’t know photography was like heroin,” he says with a laugh. “It opened up a whole world for me, and I have become addicted.”
The National Park Service acquired a rare photograph of Selina Norris Gray, a slave owned by Robert E. Lee.
Marc Asnin has a new project recruiting photographers to speak out against the death penalty. “Through crowd-funding and social media, he has initiated a campaign in conjunction with the VII association against the death penalty in which he asks photographers to upload self-portraits to a website with a caption of 140 characters or fewer describing why they oppose capital punishment.”
The Guardian has guest photographers posting on their Instagram feed.
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture recently added over 4,000 photos from photographer Henry Clay Anderson to their collection’s search center.
Photographer Sebastián Liste has been photographing the Brazilian elite, and the result is fascinating.
“A dentist, a bus driver, and a surgeon pop open a manhole cover and shimmy into the opening, abseiling into the depths of London’s sewer system.” No joke.
And finally, when you find a tiger on the side of the road make sure it is real before you call the police.