- After this week’s drone incident at the White House, DJI – the drone’s manufacturer – has issued a mandatory firmware update disabling the use of their devices in D.C.’s no-fly zone.
- Sports Illustrated laid off the rest of its photography staff this week. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
- Sometimes the best moments of Saturday Night Live are the host portrait bumpers. Mary Ellen Matthews, the photographer who’s been doing them since 1999, talks about her work.
- Vantage recently posted the second in a two-part interview with Karen Mullarky, “one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time.” Part 1, Part 2.
- “I tried to imagine my life as a mother. I couldn’t think of a single female war photographer who had a stable relationship, much less a husband or a baby.” The New York Times published an excerpt by photojournalist Lynsey Addario from her book “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War,” available February 5.
- Remote cameras caught a rare glimpse of a Sierra Nevada red fox in Yosemite National Park.
- Photographer Carrie Schneider’s response to the lack of women in our literary canon.
- Photographer Jim Magnan followed professional rally driver Ken Block kick up all the dust in southern Utah.
- This gallery of Supermarket Spaceships shows life-size rockets inspired by 1950s TV-shows that used to tour the country to advertise bread and meat products.
- While their images of the recent snowstorm had been solicited by the New York Times, Instagrammers only discovered their front-page placement by chance.
- Meanwhile, here are some old photographs showing the aftermath of a huge snow storm that hit the eastern seaboard in March of 1888.
- PDN Magazine is looking for “emerging photographers” to feature in their next issue. Is one of them you?
- Welcome to Oymyakon, Russia – the coldest town on earth. It’s dark for 21 hours a day and, during winter, temperatures average minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Art Shay, now 92 and one of the 20th century’s most prolific photographers, is starting to get the “appreciation from the art world he’s long deserved.”
- 15-year-old white tiger Omar got a routine medical exam at Wildlife Reserves Singapore; his keepers have trained him to stay calm so the tiger, entering his senior years, won’t have to go through the stress of being sedated.
Friday Links: December 5, 2014
In case you missed it, the ninth annual Exposed DC Photography Contest opened for entries this week; get those entries in before January 7! And don’t forget to stop by Bloombars in Columbia Heights to check out the extended run of our Instant DC Fall Review – it closes December 14. Meanwhile, links are a go:
- The Washington City Paper has compiled a gallery of Darrow Montgomery’s photographs of D.C.’s Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry, who died Sunday aged 78.
- Cab driver Mike Harvey has been photographing his passengers, and the results are very interesting.
- Brian Shul, an SR-71 Blackbird pilot and photographer, describes the day he took his favorite picture.
- Richard Koci Hernandez, a prolific Instagram photographer, has decided to delete all of his photos.
- The nerve-wracking process of shooting the very last space shuttle launch.
- And here’s veteran NASA photographer Bill Ingalls shooting today’s Orion launch. Nice lens, brah!
- Photographer Tim Matsui documented the sexual exploitation of children, and painful cycle of drug addiction.
- Ten National Geographic photographers give thanks for the photos that changed them.
- If you printed every Instagram photo uploaded in a year, the results would reach very, very, very high.
- Photographer Stuart Pilkington paired photographers together to see how they would photograph each other. The portraits are an interesting look at the people typically behind the lens.
- Brazilian surfer and photographer João Pedro takes still photos with a GoPro either mounted to his surfboard or in hand without a surfboard at all. And they’re phenomenal.
- The Boston Globe has started a new photo page which showcases images from their archives called the Globe Collection. The photos span from local to international news, and are a good place to spend some free time perusing images.
- Riding along with Norway’s Hells Angels.
- This drone video of the area around Chernobyl is haunting.
- A major exhibit of the New York Public Library’s vast photo collection is a reminder that photography has always been a social medium.
- What do we want? Incredibly detailed photos of brains in jars! When do we want them? Brains!!
- Berlin-based photographer Patrick Morarescu captures performance artists right after they finish their shows.
- This labrador retriever is an abandoned tiger cub’s new mom.