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Friday Links: September 19, 2014

September 19, 2014 By Heather Goss

The Washington Post has launched a new photo blog.
These photos of the fire in the Sierra are intense.
At Photokina, Panasonic has announced a new pocket-sized camera featuring an f/2.8 Leica lens, with 28mm equivalent field of view, and a 1 inch sensor. Oh, did we mention it’s also an Android phone?
Faceplants and apples: A Visual History of Kids Being Unimpressed with President Obama.
Eric Kim experienced the Magnum Workshop in Provincetown, since you couldn’t be there.
Australian photographer Ashley Gilbertson photographs dead soldiers’ rooms to highlight the costs of war.
Andrew Ward takes photos of discarded couches around Los Angeles.
Long-lost photographs depict the first black people to ever be photographed in Britain. The portraits of the African Choir, a South African musical group that toured the U.K. between 1891 and 1893, were last seen in a London newspaper in 1891.
Newsha Tavakolian returned a 50,000-Euro prize rather than see her work about contemporary Iran be controlled — distorted, she says — by the financier whose foundation selected her.
And how about some more volcano photos? The eruption of Mount Mayon is causing the evacuation of thousands of people in the Philippines.
The Royal Observatory just announced their annual photo winners.
This is how photographers capture those slick photos of military jets.
And finally, photographer Lara Hawker can help you find the tiger in yourself.

Friday Links: September 12, 2014

September 12, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Water Dreams, Yards Park by Chris McDaniel

Our last free photography class through Knowledge Commons DC opened for registration today. Sign up now to learn street photography techniques from professional instructor Gerry Suchy next Saturday, September 20 at 10 a.m. Gerry will have one more class on September 27. UPDATE: The Sept 20 class is full! You can still sign up for the waitlist. Get ready early NEXT FRIDAY when registration opens for the Sept. 27 class.

Join us TONIGHT for our Photobook Happy Hour at WeWork Wonder Bread less than a block from the Shaw metro, 6 to 8 p.m. The event is free, and you can browse great books by Chris Suspect, Mambu Badu, Adam Ryder, Michael Andrade, and Keith Campbell — and talk to the artists about how they went about publishing their work. Everitt Clark will also be there with his soon-to-be-published prints and the 4″x5″ large format camera he uses.

Printing your mobile photos just got a lot easier with Mpix Tap To Print app.
The deadline for the DC State Fair annual photo contest is approaching fast. Get your photos in by Sept 15. (There’s not much submitted right now, so your chances of winning are pretty good!)
“I would love for people to care about young talented photographers before they are killed.” The New York Times takes a look at the dangers facing photojournalists.
The Library of Congress opened a new online photo archive that contains thousands of images of life during the Great Depression.
If you have an extra $26,000 lying around, the new Mamiya Leaf looks pretty amazing.
Scientists from the University of Surrey explain how to take a decent selfie. Among their tips, taking a photo from arm’s length can make portraits look “bulbous” with a “big nose and vanishing ears,” like the famous “monkey selfie.”
Faceplanting into the couch is so much more fun in the Oval Office.
The latest D.C. arts commission public art project seems to be neither local, nor remaining public art very long.
China has the best photo trends, and this one is no exception. Nothing says ‘I Love You’ like posing together in expensive clothes while swimming underwater.
Photographer Angela Castillo caught all the sad dads at a One Direction concert.
Cool photos of people playing with clouds and forced perspective.
Washington Photo Safari is offering a photo class at Mount Vernon this fall.
Opening tonight at Vivid Solutions is Jared Soares photo series of a basketball court at Barry Farms.
And finally, baby tigers getting along with Bluejays? Anything is possible.

Friday Links

September 5, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

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Don’t forget to register for our initial set of free photography classes through Knowledge Commons DC, including sessions on street photography and street portraits from the accomplished Jim Darling and Gerry Suchy respectively. Stay tuned for a whole new slew of classes coming up in October! And mark your calendars for our Photobook Happy Hour at WeWork Wonder Bread on September 12 from 6 to 8pm. Happy Friday!

Congratulations to STRATA‘s Chris Suspect, whose D.C. hardcore music show images will be among those on display in the Leica Gallery at Photokina in Cologne, Germany.
The APA announced the winners of their 2014 Annual Awards Competition.
Russian Photographer Andrei Stenin was sadly found dead this week in Ukraine.
Oliver Blohm finds out what happens when you put your instant film in the microwave.
The International Space Station got a new 800mm lens, and the photos are pretty great.
Where every dog is a weiner: Photos from the annual Labor Day Weiner Dog Race.
DC Focused is a new blog “Chronicling Life in the District.”
Iceland is erupting, and the photos are so damn cool. It’s also not the only place erupting this week. In case you were wondering what it is like for people living near volcanoes, Eric Lafforgue has been capturing their day to day lives.
“Looking back, working conditions back in the day were a dream. We got great salaries, flew business class and were given the time to do the job right. There were even occasions when the photo editor would say: ‘the images aren’t quite right yet. Travel back there and get some more.’” Interview with long time Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker.
Who do you want to be? Or, more accurately, who could you have been? Czech photographer Dita Pepe takes these musings quite literally, re-imaging (their word) her life in a hundred different scenarios in her series “Self Portraits with Men”
Peng Yangjun has been capturing the beautiful face-kini trend in China.
“Chinese photographer Fan Ho spent the ’50s and ’60s photographing street life in Hong Kong. His work, to be published in his new book “Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir,” reaches back through time and space to connect us to the everyday sights of this bustling metropolis in a way that many of us have never seen before.”
REI is offering local photography classes.
Do you know when you need a model release? The Capital Photography Center breaks it down for you.
It is not the work for which he is most know, but the Met has a large collection of Walker Evan’s locomotive photos.
Indonesian photographer Yudy Sauw’s stunning macro pictures of insects look as though they were taken by a scientist in a lab. Turns out he “likes bugs” and that it’s “just a hobby.”
Photographer Danila Tkachenko won the 2014 World Press Photo contest for his pictures of hermits. Tkachenko spent three years locating and photographing people who live in the wilderness of Russia and Ukraine.
And finally, an Australian Zoo celebrated the first birthday of their two tiger cubs.

Friday Links

August 29, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Registration is open for our first set of free photography classes through Knowledge Commons DC! Take some fantastic images like this one by Robb Hohmann at Gravelly Point next Tuesday, September 2, or Saturday, September 6, with our talented teacher Chris Williams. Our classes on street photography and impromptu portraiture will open soon.

Read this editorial from John Naughton on why he loves his Leica.
One of the great things about photography is how you can do so much with so little. Martin Kimbell takes stunning photos using a hula hoop and LED lights.
“This week, Mr. Adelman will become, in essence, a photographer in residence at the Library of Congress, a position created to draw attention to the importance of the medium in American life.” Adelman’s work is full of interesting social commentary.
You will think this is amazing or creepy as can be, photographs from a doll hospital in Syndney. The steaming baby head is particularly amazing.
If you like your food to color coordinate, you will like the work of Emily Blincoe.
Patricia Lay-Dorsey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1988, and has been documenting her life in photographs for the last six years.
Getty looks back at the work of Stanley Green, who won their award in 2011 for his documentary work on toxic electronic waste.
A crazy cat lady/nurse in Peru cares 175 cats with feline leukemia; there are photos by Martin Mejia.
To raise money for tigers, a group last week streaked the London zoo some in painted on tiger costumes.

Friday Links

August 15, 2014 By James Calder

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.