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Friday Links: October 16, 2015

October 16, 2015 By James Calder

DC Fish Market by John Sonderman
DC Fish Market by John Sonderman

 

  • The Washington City Paper profiles one of our favorite local photographers, Chris Suspect.
  • Last call for Artomatic 2015 – claim your spot now!
  • After a recent survey showed a significance number of photographers admitted to staging pictures, the New York Times Lens Blog asked several editors and photographers to address the issue.
  • Sail across the Indian Ocean in this stunning, online exhibition by the National Museum of African Art of the earliest photographic history of the Swahili Coast. It’s the Smithsonian’s first major online project, cost $1.8 million and took three years to put together.
  • Jonathan Ernst documents Morgan Tolley, a third generation crab processor working on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay who worries that his industry may be under threat as more and more young people shun the traditional family-oriented trade.
  • The geography of poverty – a journey through forgotten America. Photographs by Matt Black, words by Trymaine Lee.
  • Away from Che, cigars and colorful Cadillacs, Havana’s “Jesus Maria” barrio is too dangerous for the tourist trail. Photographer Matt Wilson has delved into its streets to show the laughter, despair and hair-curlers of a crumbling labyrinth.
  • Urban growth, sporting events, financial crashes and political turmoil have left a trail of city airports and airfields deserted around the globe. While some lie abandoned or face redevelopment, others are being creatively reused.
  • Fans from all over the world attending the ongoing 2015 Rugby World Cup in England and Wales.
  • The winners of this year’s wildlife photographer of the year contest have been announced at London’s Natural History Museum. Warning: the overall winner’s image is a bit gory.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, abandoned, airports, Artomatic, Chris Suspect, crab industry, Cuba, fans, NMAA, photojournalism ethics, poverty, rugby, Smithsonian

Friday Links: August 7, 2015

August 7, 2015 By James Calder

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

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Air & Space Magazine, atomic bomb, Blacks Photography, Brixton, Cuba, Ferguson, Fukushima, Japan, Nathan Benn, National Geographic, Ruben Espinosa, technology

Friday Links: July 10, 2015

July 10, 2015 By James Calder

Food? by Rob Cannon
Food? by Rob Cannon
  • Artomatic has found a 90,000 square foot space in Prince George’s County for this fall. Get a preview of the space tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
  • NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is about to give humanity our first up-close look at Pluto when it whizzes by next Tuesday, July 14, after nearly 10 years in space. The first high-res images will reach Earth around 9:30pm Eastern that night, but for now we can enjoy this spectacular view of Pluto and its moon Charon taken on July 8.
  • You can now view a large collection of OCR scanned Leica Photography magazines on Google Drive; nearly 70 are available, back to 1949.
  • Humans of New York has 10 times more followers on Facebook than the most-followed newspaper has on all social media combined. But when does the personal touch that makes him so popular reveal an uncomfortable lack of accountability that a real photojournalist would have?
  • Enter Sustainable DC’s “DC Climate Photo Contest” by July 12.
  • Stunning images of the survival techniques and defensive adaptations of caterpillars by New England-based naturalist and photographer Samuel Jaffe.
  • Russian Photographer Ralph Mirebs discovered the sad ruins of the Soviet space shuttle program at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
  • And if sad images of abandoned places are your thing, but you like an added touch of creepiness, these photos of abandoned amusement parks should be just your cup of tea.
  • Decked out in natty suits and flowing dresses, locals and visitors from across Central and South America travelled to attend the 9th International Festival Danzon in Havana, Cuba.
  • Across five years, five countries and 11 music festivals, Australian photographer Nic Bezzina has documented one constant – the raw emotion expressed by festival-goers.
  • Dronestagram’s photo contest winners soar to “change the way we see the world.”
  • Your Instagram photos are now being stored at a higher resolution.
  • Selfie-stick + lightning = Darwin Awards nominee?

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: abandoned, amusement parks, Artomatic, astronomy, caterpillars, Cuba, dance, drones, ethics, Humans of New York, Instagram, leica, music festivals, new horizons, pluto, selfie stick, Soviet space shuttle, Sustainable DC

Lisa Shires’ Cuba

August 27, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Havana, CubaEarlier this year Lisa Shires traveled to Cuba with fellow photographer Alison Harbaugh to complete a photography project she’d planned for months. Once there, she realized that the logistical challenges of working in a developing country were too much for her original plan, so did what many photographers are forced to do: make something happen. The result is a beautiful series of images of the people she met in Havana. Shires presents her subjects in a vibrant, personal way.

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Filed Under: Artist Spotlight Tagged With: artist spotlight, Cuba, Havana, Lisa Shires, portraits

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