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Friday Links: May 14, 2021

May 14, 2021 By Ron Keith

Register for Photoworks’ Coffee and Critique this Sunday at 10:00 a.m. to share and discuss your current work with fellow artists.
Truth in Photography takes on looking for truth in a digital age, democratization of the camera, and citizen journalism with online exhibitions and remarks.
Foreground launches as a new umbrella entity to serve as a comprehensive, one-stop photography marketplace with backing from ShootProof, Collage, and PSG, a growth equity firm.
Join the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for the “Our City, Ourselves: Women Photograph Washington” closing event and community celebration on May 20 at 6:00 p.m. Local photography groups including Exposed DC look forward to being part of the event and discussion!
From 2014 to 2019, Kristin Bedford spent more than 100 hours documenting the lowrider scene of Los Angeles, photographing and collecting oral histories.
The Washington County Arts Council is celebrating 50 years of the C&O Canal, since the National Park Service took over, with a photography exhibit in Hagerstown.
If you find yourself in New Orleans, here are some rules of photographing second lines, according to a club member, a lawyer, and photographers.
Photographer Wolfgang Fröhling captures the half-renovated houses of a former mining region in Germany, a result of workers’ apartments being sold off but with new owners only purchasing half of the building as miners maintained a lifelong right of residence to their quarters.

Friday Links: May 7, 2021

May 7, 2021 By Ron Keith

Focus on the Story will be awarding a $2,000 grant and a Fujifilm XT-4 gear package to a single photographer to help them begin and complete a community-driven project that tells a compelling and impactful visual story. Proposals are being accepted through June 18.
Sign up for the community celebration closing event on May 20 for “Our City, Ourselves: Women Photograph Washington,” an online exhibit organized by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities. You can also participate by posting pictures from across the District on social media with the hashtag #OurCityCAH; a slideshow will be shared during the closing event.
On the B&H Photography Podcast, Gulnara Samoilova discusses street photography and the new book she edited that profiles one hundred women street photographers from around the world.
The Portrait Gallery is hosting an online presentation, “Enduring Images: Enslaved People and Photography in the Antebellum South” on May 11 at 5 p.m., free with registration required.
Peek inside Italy’s ghost villages and abandoned houses believed to number in the thousands.
PetaPixel rounds up the best smartphones for photography in 2021, broken down into six categories.
This year’s Nikon surf photo of the year award goes to Stu Gibson for his image featuring surfer Tyler Hollmer Cross taking on Shipsterns in south-east Tasmania.
A mirrored ceiling and tile floor turn a bookstore into an immersive M.C. Escher-style illusion.

Friday Links: April 30, 2021

April 30, 2021 By Ron Keith

*Lincoln droplet reflection* by Kevin Wolf

Exposed alum Chris Chen’s Floating World solo exhibit opened this week and will be up through June 1 in the alley by Ellē in Mount Pleasant. Swing by to see the show and come back in June for our annual photography show in the same spot!
A collection of 71 salt prints by William Henry Fox Talbot sold for $1,956,000 at Sotheby’s April 21 sale.
The “anonymous” South African artist known as Xopher Wallace turns dreams into reality through photography and AR.
Dawoud Bey retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art documents and explores various projects by the artist and how they came to be.
Exposed alum Geoff Livingston shares how photography became part of his creative means to find balance, particularly amidst the pandemic, in his TEDxAtlanta talk.
1854 & British Journal of Photography announced the winners of the inaugural Decade of Change award that aims to harness the universal power of art and imagery to galvanise climate action.
Steven Kovacs has spent the last eight years on blackwater dives about 730 feet off the eastern coast of Florida photographing sea creatures in a process that “entails drifting near the surface at night from 0 to 100 feet over very deep water.”
The Apostrophe Protection Society invites people to submit photographic examples of the misuse of apostrophes in the wild. A tribute to the founder who died earlier this year can be found here.

Friday Links: April 23, 2021

April 23, 2021 By Noe Todorovich

Today is the last day to submit work to Stop Motion’s call for entries for Vol 10; photos must have been taken in D.C., Maryland, or Virginia during 2020.
The 2021 World Press Photo category winners were announced last week; you can view the complete collection of photos and stories here.
The Photoworks Slam returns June 6, when photographers will vie for spots in an exhibition in the Photoworks 2022 Gallery. If you’d like to participate, submit your work by May 31.
The Royal Horticultural Society announced the winners of its 2021 Photographic Competition.
On April 29 at 6 p.m., AIA | DC is hosting a webinar with historian and Dutch native Henriette Rahusen that will explore the historical context of the noteworthy presence of architecture in Dutch art using paintings, drawings, prints, cartography, and old city descriptions to show how the built world influenced artistic expression.
The annual Sony World Photography Awards announced winners of the 2021 competition, with two top prizes going to photographers reexamining biases in how culture and history is portrayed.
The Professional Photographers of America (PPA) announced subsidies for photography exhibitors for their Imaging USA conference slated for next January at the National Harbor.
May 3-7, instructors will be providing practical training during The Lightroom Virtual Summit. Tickets are free, with additional benefits available for VIP Access Pass holders ($99 through May 3).

Friday Links: April 9, 2021

April 9, 2021 By Ron Keith

Critical Exposure is searching for a Program Director to lead youth organizing programs that train DC youth of color ages 14-24 in community organizing, photography, storytelling, and action planning. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis with a deadline of April 26.
The “Telling Your Story” virtual exhibit opened earlier this week on Photoworks’s site, featuring 8 artists’ photo projects from a class they took with Ernesto Bazan.
The BBC announced The Great British Photography Challenge is due to air this summer, with photography luminaries Rankin and Chris Packham at the center of the broadcast.
Sigma Photo and Cardinal Camera invite you to a virtual session on the basics of photographing birds, from your bird feeder to the beach to the prime locations and destinations with photographer and Sigma tech rep, Brett Wells, on April 24 at 11:00 a.m.
Speaking of birds, European starlings flock in mesmerizing swarms of thousands, but why is still somewhat of a mystery.
PHmuseum’s curated awards guide provides info on grants and other photography applications currently open for submissions.
Eric Pfrunder, who inherited Karl Lagerfeld’s photograph collection, plans to register the catalog on the Lukso blockchain, as well as releasing the photos over time through exhibits and books.
Indian photographer Sutapa Roy’s “Wish My Butterfly Would Live Forever” tells the story of a young girl concerned about the health of the environment across the globe. It also shows a mother seeing her daughter mature and find her place in the world.