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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!

Friday Links: February 27, 2015

February 27, 2015 By Heather Goss

Have you gotten tickets to our Exposed DC Photography Show opening yet? Pick yours up before they’re all gone!

RIP the great Leonard Nimoy, who died this morning. Known to most of us as Spock, Nimoy was also a lifelong photographer.
When “photoshop” became a verb: The interesting history of software manipulation.
An interview with Ronald K. Fierstein, author of the new book, “A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War.”
Why your photograph in a National Park may be illegal.
Hollywood food stylists explain how they get that Cubano sandwich picture perfect.
“I want to introduce white America to people who they might never have met, and I want them to fall in love too.” An interview with photographer Ruddy Roye.
Photos of, and by, America’s first lady photojournalist.
Portraits of men with their cats. Real men.
From ending violence to commemorating the past, Holly Falconer documents the reasons women march.
French photographer Aurélien Chauvaud documents the eccentric riders of Shanghai’s motorcycle sidecar subculture.
It takes more than just an Instagram filter to recreate that eighties high school portrait style.
“I’ve come to learn that photographing a person looking away from the lens can convey thoughtfulness, even deep emotion.” New York Times staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno finds herself shooting instinctively from her subjects’ point of view.
Eduardo Leal ventured to El Alto to better understand the sisterhood behind the spectacle of Bolivia’s famous cholitas luchadoras.
A pair of squirrels with insanely adorable ears “build” a snowman together. Some creative prop-work by Russian photographer Vadim Trunov.
Indonesian man sleeps, eats, plays and even fights with his best buddy, a seven-year-old, 400 pound Bengal tiger.

Kristen Finn’s Food Photography

October 24, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Food photography is often a highly stylized affair, with elaborate lighting setups, heavy image manipulation, and a final product that is not suitable for human consumption. There are, however, photographers like Kristen Finn, whose work showcases food in its natural state, the culture surrounding it, and how it reaches the table.

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