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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: August 22, 2014

August 22, 2014 By exposeddc

Pool Party 10 by Rob Cannon
Pool Party 10 by Rob Cannon

Another Friday is upon us! September is coming up soon, so save the dates for three great classes we’re sponsoring during Knowledge Commons DC’s fall session. Learn street photography techniques, how to take an impromptu portrait, or tips to catch the airplanes taking-off over Gravelly Point. Registration starts eight-days prior for each class. They’re free but they’ll fill up quickly!

  • Unrest in Ferguson continues, and earlier this week Getty photographer Scott Olsen was arrested while reporting on it…
  • …but the majority of the protests have been peaceful.
  • Gordon Parks’ 1950s photo essay on civil rights-era America is as relevant as ever.
  • On the other side of the globe, Andrew Quilty has created this powerful photo essay about a group of Kurdish soldiers.
  • D.C. Superior Court finalized the Corcoran’s split between GWU and NGA this week, stating that no works can be transferred outside the District without the D.C. attorney general’s approval.
  • Even we were hesitant to click on this photo series about Mystery Meat.
  • Humans of New York becomes Humans of the World and moves to Iraq.
  • Here’s a great piece about E. Brady Robinson’s art desk series (can you spot the card from our Flaunt show in the last photo?)
  • This story reminded some of us why we no longer ride in helicopters over volcanoes.
  • All across America, artists are taking over billboards.
  • Cage-free shark photographer Michael Muller survived Shark Week.
  • Two Swiss photographers remind us why hobbies make life better.
  • We wish we had been invited to these twin tigers’ Piñata Birthday Party!

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: civil rights, Corcoran, Ferguson, Humans of New York, shark week, tigers

Friday Links

August 15, 2014 By James Calder

shakes sundaes cones by damiec
shakes sundaes cones by damiec
  • We hope you’ve been paying attention to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by police last Saturday. There are tons of photos on Twitter, including the police using tear gas on largely-peaceful protestors and an Al Jazeera tv crew (before taking down their equipment) on Wednesday. That same night, police closed a McDonald’s and ushered out all these “dangerous criminals” (they also arrested two reporters, including Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post). The New York Times put together the photos on all our minds, those from Ferguson in 2014 and the Civil Rights Movement half a century ago. Here at home, Howard University students posed for a powerful photo to protest Brown’s killing. Lastly, it’s always worth a reminder, because the authorities often forget: “Citizens have the right to take pictures of anything in plain view in a public space, including police officers and federal buildings.”
  • “It’s as though we’ve become unsure of our ability to feel, and need to outsource moments to a team, in the hope that collective approval will stand in for meaning.” A Boston Globe op-ed asks if we’re too busy sharing moments to truly experience them.
  • Photographer Christina De Middel takes spam email she’s received and creates beautifully composed, fictitious portraits of the imaginary senders.
  • David Waldorf works in both the commercial and fine art worlds, but his cinematic photographs of trailer park residents in Sonoma, California are striking and unsettling in their detail.
  • “If we’re big enough to fight a war, we should be big enough to look at it.” The fascinating story of The War Photo No One Would Publish.
  • A survey of photographers who’ve recently had photo books published, listing details of the deals they struck with their respective publishers.
  • First person account by fashion photographer Rachel Scroggins of a photo she made that ended up being broadly published with neither credit nor permission. Alternative description: Groundhog Day.
  • Guys on Instagram are now doing their own #MakeupTransformation photos, and it’s priceless.
  • Crazy images of waves caused by a tidal bore that have created a popular spectator sport in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. These photos make us want to bathe in some…different water, pronto.
  • The Capital Weather Gang blogged: “Is HDR photography enhancing or defiling how we see weather and nature?“
  • In 1974, Daniel Sorine photographed a couple of mimes performing in Central Park, only to discover 35 years later that he had captured a then little-known Robin Williams on film.
  • “The people Stanton photographs are reduced to whatever decontextualized sentence or three he chooses to use along with their photo.” A critique of the popular Humans of New York series.
  • Lida Moser passed away this week just before her 94th birthday. The highly acclaimed photographer lived in Rockville, Maryland and really hated being pigeonholed.
  • Two of the women in Garry Winogrand’s iconic 1964 photograph “World’s Fair, New York City” recollect that summer afternoon.
  • Think you’ve seen some cool cat photos on the interwebs?  You ain’t seen nothing ’til you’ve seen Vincent J. Musi’s shots for National Geographic.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Boston Globe, Capital Weather Gang, Christina De Middel, civil rights, Daniel Sorine, David Waldorf, Ferguson, first amendment, freedom of speech, friday links, Garry Winogrand, HDR, Howard University, Humans of New York, image theft, Instagram, Lida Moser, MakeupTransformation, Michael Brown, photobook publishing, protests, Rachel Scroggins, recap, Robin Williams, spam, summary, tidal bore, tiger, Vincent J. Musi, war photo

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