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Friday Links: November 20, 2015

November 20, 2015 By James Calder

10 minutes of surreal DC weather... by Jeff Reardon
10 minutes of surreal DC weather… by Jeff Reardon

 

Huge thanks to Knowledge Commons DC and to each of our volunteer teachers – Samer Farha, Mukul Ranjan, Chris Williams, and Sarah Hodzic – for putting on our free photography classes this week! We hope to have another session for you soon. And to all of you who signed up for the classes, thank you and well done on nabbing a spot – they were in high demand! If you’re proud of any of the photos you shot during one of the classes, please consider entering them in our 10th annual contest which opens in just a couple of weeks. Now for the links you’ve been waiting for:

  • White House photography editor and photojournalist Rick McKay died this week at his home in Virginia. President Obama offered a tribute to his work.
  • Regular Flickr contributor Tony Quinn‘s photographs from 1983 bear witness to Team America – D.C.’s short-lived, oft-forgotten soccer club.
  • In a curious move, Reuters has banned its photographers from submitting images edited from RAW files, it says, to save time and prevent egregious editing.
  • “Photographing the daily life of Muslims in Paris is a challenge. I discovered this by throwing myself into the project, which rapidly became a story of failed encounters, rejection and disappointment.” Photos and words by Reuters photographer Youssef Boudlal.
  • Police in body armor showed up at an office building in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after someone called 911 to report a gunman holding a machine gun. Turns out it was a photographer holding a tripod.
  • “Over 96 percent of pro photographers surveyed don’t regularly register their copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office despite nearly unanimous (99 percent) agreement with the statement that copyright protection is an important aspect of their careers.”
  • James and Karla Murray’s Store Front photography books capture a disappearing world: New York’s small stores and their unique and precious aesthetics.
  • It’s gift buying season. Maybe someone you know needs one of these books on digital photography for beginners?
  • One of the more complex concepts for photographers, especially beginners, is the relationship between ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. Photoblog Hamburg has a simple but clever infographic explaining how they all work.
  • See Mexican photographer Jesús Jiménez’s images of currency at the Organization of American States through January 15.
  • A small-town farmer traces his lineage to a 19th-century African prince who was enslaved and taken to work in the silver mines of Bolivia.
  • Laura Husar Garcia’s Beyond the Veil examines the rarely asked question about what happens to nuns after they retire.
  • To mark the 20th anniversary of the Dayton agreement, which brought an end to the Bosnian war, photographers Stéphanie Borcard and Nicolas Métraux have captured the divisions, the dark clouds and the young hope there today.
  • Stray cats steal the spotlight from world leaders at the G20 Summit in Turkey. [Video]

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: beginners, Bolivia, books, Bosnia, copyright, G20, infographic, Jesus Jimenez, KCDC, Laura Husar Garcia, Muslim, nuns, OAS, Paris, Photography Classes, police, RAW files, Rick McKay, soccer, stray cats, Team America, Tony Quinn

Friday Links: December 26, 2014

December 26, 2014 By Heather Goss

Christmas Day Kite by John Leszczynski
Christmas Day Kite by John Leszczynski

Welcome to a special post-Christmas/Boxing day/Obama-mas edition of Friday Links – we wanted to squeeze one more in for you under the 2014 wire. Enjoy these while you polish off those leftover cookies and continue thinking about which photos you’re going to enter into our annual contest before the January 7 deadline. (Or go out and take some, it’s a gorgeous day!)

  • Louis Jacobson at the Washington City Paper always does a great yearly photography round-up. Here are his picks for D.C.’s top 10 photography exhibits, and top 5 individual exhibited photographs including fantastic work by former Exposed DC contest winners Christine Pearl and Steve Goldenberg.
  • LensCulture picked their favorite photobooks of the year.
  • PDN reports that an Amazon marketplace dealer is selling copyrighted photos featured in TIME magazine’s top 10 photos of 2014 on iPhone accessories. One would hope Amazon would shut this down quick, but we can also hope there’s not a big market out there for phone cases emblazoned with people dying from Ebola.
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson’s incredible book The Decisive Moment was recently reprinted after 62 years. The Guardian wonders, though: Has the moment passed?
  • Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom’s 20-year long photo project is the ultimate Who Wore it Best?
  • Not incredibly surprising: A U.S. District judge okays police using fake Instagram accounts to befriend people to get access to their images.
  • Y’all didn’t think the selfie stick was new, did you?
  • This “most ambitious crowdsourced timelapse” involved 40 photographers in London, over 35,000 photos, and 40 hours of video.
  • Spend the rest of the day with 500px’s collections of top 10 photos in various categories, including landscapes, journalism, and cats (!).
  • “I would hate to see this tradition interrupted by someone who is not an Ohioan.” A California activist has started a petition to stop Massillion Washington High School’s 44-year-long tradition of bringing live tiger cubs to their football games.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: 500px, copyright, friday links, Hans Eijkelboom, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Instagram, Louis Jacobson, selfies, timelapse

Friday Links: November 7, 2014

November 7, 2014 By James Calder

autumn reflections by Ilona Szczot
autumn reflections by Ilona Szczot

This Sunday from 2-4 p.m., join us at the opening reception for the extended run of our InstantDC Fall Review show! The new venue for these beautiful photographs is BloomBars in Columbia Heights. Keep your eyes peeled for exciting news in the coming days about a new series of Exposed-sponsored photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC! While you’re salivating, here are this week’s links:

  • FotoWeekDC kicks off tonight. Wondering what to pick from the overwhelming array of events and shows? Check our handy-dandy guide for recommendations.
  • Alejandro Almaraz composites images of world leaders to examine how different nations view power.
  • Bryan Adams’ heart-stopping images of wounded British soldiers.
  • WIRED interviews Tatiana Gulenkina, one of our InstantDC Fall Review show selections.
  • In case you needed a new idea for your nightmares: images of inside out teddy bears.
  • Intimate images from the Golden Age of Silicon Valley from this book by photographer Doug Menuez.
  • “I like the negotiation of street photography, which depends on quickly reading people, on trying to understand their house, their ark, their things, with only the slightest of visual clues.”
  • Avid underworld explorer and photographer Brendan Marris has compiled iconic shots of the vast cave systems in the U.K.
  • From outrageous uniforms to shoulder calluses: photographs of life in a marching band by Walter Pickering.
  • A mesmerizing time lapse video of Paris by Yann Muncy.
  • Shorpy has a cool photo from a Congressional baseball game from 1918.
  • Carli Davidson, the photographer who made the dog photo book Shake, has a new book out called Shake Puppies. Cue the squee!
  • A satellite photograph of New Zealand shows an almost perfectly circular park.
  • A new portfolio site was launched in the U.K. to help photographers protect their copyright.
  • An awesome AP photo of 2,000 sheep being led through the streets of Madrid.
  • Point Defiance zoo in Tacoma, Washington has new photos of its rare Sumatran tiger cub triplets. Their three-week-old ears will slay you.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Alejandro Almaraz, Brendan Marris, Bryan Adams, Carli Davidson, caves, composite images, Congressional baseball, copyright, dogs, Doug Menuez, Paris, sheep, Silicon Valley, Tatiana Gulenkina, teddy bears, tiger, time lapse, Walter Pickering, wounded soldiers, Yann Muncy

Exposed Interview: Paulo Ordoveza of @PicPedant

January 28, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Photo by Cameron Davidson/Corbis Images used with permission. This photo was posted by @EarthPics without attribution or payment. It was removed from Twitter after @PicPedant posted the name of the photographer.
Photo by Cameron Davidson/Corbis Images, used with permission. This photograph was posted by @EarthPics on Twitter without attribution or payment. It was removed from Twitter after @PicPedant posted the name of the photographer.

If you use Twitter, you have probably seen one of the dozens of feeds that post photos without giving proper credit to the original photographer. Some accounts, like @HistoryInPics and @Earthpix, have millions of followers who retweet and share the uncredited images thousands of times. Those accounts recently sparked debate after the teenagers who manage them were interviewed by Alexis Madrigal for the Atlantic. While not crediting the photographers is bad enough, sometimes these accounts post historical photos with inaccurate captions, bad science, or images that are photoshopped and passed off as unaltered.

But as the number of accounts sharing uncredited photos grows, so does the backlash. A few Twitter accounts are dedicated to exposing the truth about the images. One of them is run by Paulo Ordoveza, a local who posts as @PicPedant. Ordoveza started his account just five days ago, and already has over 1,300 followers. He responds to tweets from the offending accounts, providing the photographer’s name or the correct scientific or historical information. Ordoveza’s work caught our attention, so we asked him a few questions about his uphill battle exposing uncredited or false images.

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Filed Under: Exposed Interview Tagged With: copyright, credit, Exposed Interview, Paulo Ordoveza, Photographer's Rights, PicPedant, rights, twitter

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