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Friday Links: March 27, 2015

March 26, 2015 By James Calder

Early Bloomers at the Washington Monument on 3/24/2015 by John Sonderman

You still have a couple of opportunities to visit the Exposed DC Photography Show at Capital Fringe, the next being tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. Your final chance is our closing reception on Saturday, April 11, 4 to 8 p.m. If you’d like to buy any of the photos in the show, they’re all available in our online marketplace. You can also get the 2015 exhibition magazine for $10, including a free downloadable version.

We now present this week’s linkage:

The Guardian has highlighted some of their favorite urban Instagram photographers in the US. Their selections include a couple of our fair city taken by InstantDC 2014 winner James Jackson. The Guardian’s @guardiancities Instagram feed showcases urban photography from around the world — tag your photographs #guardiancities to be considered.
Photos of 5-year-old Lily Bushelle dressed up as heroines of African-American history have gone viral. Her family is finding new icons to continue their series.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet took nighttime aerial photos of San Francisco, “a city that never seems to end.”
Danish photographer Ken Hermann makes starkly stunning portraits of individual vendors in the Malik Ghat Flower Market in Kolkata, India for his series “Flower Man.”
Photographer Laura Novak, CEO of Little Nest Portraits, saw giving up equity as a negative. Now she sees it as a strategic move for business growth.
Nine composition tips featuring examples by “Afghan Girl” photographer Steve McCurry.
How NASA colorizes Hubble photographs, with bonus National Geographic video. Eat your heart out Ted Turner.
After digital technology upended Kodak’s analog film world, employees ponder how the once-iconic company can prosper and remain technologically relevant.
Paper Magazine complied 16 images from an unofficial Tumblr “Vintage National Geographic.”
Master printer Chuck Kelton says most printers can get 90 percent of an image right. But that final 10 percent is where a printer’s darkroom skills will draw out the photo’s magnificence.
The newly launched Pivot app uses your device’s camera and location to offer you a look at a particular spot “from a specific vantage point through the tunnel of time.”
A couple of incredible cloud photos: an example of the wonderfully named Undulatus Asperatus and this lonely cloud that could.
Lawrence Schwartzwald offers photographic proof that New Yorkers will read books absolutely anywhere.
Danish photojournalist Lasse Bak Mejlvang traveled to Sisimiut, Greenland in 2014 to document the rise in the number of young people there. The town represents the economic hope of this country of just 56,000 people.
Russian photographer Fox Grom photographs adorable Siberian Huskies playing around on frozen lakes and in snow banks. D’awwww.

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 6, 2015

February 5, 2015 By James Calder

Don’t forget to head over to Right Proper Brewing in Shaw this coming Tuesday for our February happy hour/meetup. We hope to see not only the usual Exposed DC crowd, but also our friends from IGDC, APA|DC, ASMPDC, and the Leica Store!

Tomorrow four D.C. photographers – Clarissa Villondo, Alex Schelldorf, Matthew Brazier and Michael Andrade – will stage the the 9:30 Club’s first pop-up music photography exhibit.
Photographers are complaining about a little yellow car ruining their photos of the picturesque English village of Bibury.
Brad Wilson takes studio portraits of wild animals, and here PetaPixel publishes a ton of his owl portraits. And they are intense.
Andrew Fladeboe will see Brad’s owl portraits and raise you his stunning series about working dogs called “The Shepherd’s Realm.”
Arlington Arts Center was awarded a grant to operate for the next two years.
Colossal has a 10-minute documentary about photographer Michael Paul Smith, whose “broad life experiences lead him to the creation of Elgin Park, a fictional 20th century town filled with miniature 1/24th-scale models of cars and buildings. Smith mixes his carefully crafted model sets with die-cut automobiles and real-life backdrops, taking advantage of an optical illusion known as forced perspective.”
In narcissistic self-cannibalism news, the selfie toaster – eat your own face, on a slice of toast!
A pilot crashed his plane, killing himself and a passenger, because they were distracted taking selfies in the cockpit.
The F-35 Lightning II fighter gets ice in its beard during extreme weather testing at a U.S. Air Force laboratory.
“Last week, Commander Chris Hadfield (of International Space Station fame) tweeted this image, asking what could have caused such strange columns to form in rocks.” So Erik Klemetti answered.
Nikon will reportedly announce a special version of the D810 full frame DSLR next week that’s designed specifically for astrophotography.
A look inside the first book illustrated exclusively with photographs. Biologist Anna Atkins used sunprints inside her 1843 book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. Beautiful.
Photographer Manu Brabo has been embedded in Ukraine covering the conflict in and around Donetsk for several weeks.
Tiger camera traps in India have captured way fewer than they’d hoped.

Friday Links: January 23, 2015

January 23, 2015 By Meaghan Gay

Dogs on the Beach by Cliff Burns — Dogs on the Beach by Clif Burns

Today is the last day to enter your photos in the Anacostia River photography contest.
Women in Ecuador are fighting to protect the Amazon, and Felipe Jacome has been taking their portraits.
Baltimore photographer Jonathan Hanson “began photographing androgynous people, wanting viewers to let go of the usual filters and question our traditional standards of beauty — and identity.”
Photographer Marcus Lyon has created composite photos that are anxiety-inducing. This 3-part series, BRICs, Exodus, and Timeout, is kind of post-apocalyptic feeling.
Local company Momenta Workshops made Photoshelter’s list of the 50 Fantastic Photo Workshops Happening in 2015.
“An instrument on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured its 100 millionth image of the sun. The instrument is the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, which uses four telescopes working parallel to gather eight images of the sun – cycling through 10 different wavelengths — every 12 seconds.” To celebrate their five years of photographing the sun, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center chose some of their favorite images and posted them on Flickr.
Michelle Frankfurter has been documenting the journeys of Central Americans as they climb on trains to reach the U.S. border.
Brent Stirton photographed the powerful story of two rural blind children in India who regained their sight.
Simon Menner‘s Camouflage series depicts German army snipers hidden in various landscapes.
A recent storm damaged a chain link fence bisecting Tijuana and San Diego, letting people jump back and forth between nations. Roc Morin documented kids playfully crossing the border.
RIP local art listing: D.C. galleries are reporting getting an email from the Washington Post saying that it’s eliminated the galleries listing from the printed Weekend section. Now’s a good time for a reminder that for photography exhibit info you can subscribe to our calendar (link at bottom of page) and submit your events to us.
And finally, some good news for tigers: India’s tiger population increased by 30%.

Friday Links: January 16, 2015

January 16, 2015 By Meaghan Gay

We announced the winners of our 9th annual Exposed DC photo contest this week.
Photographer Zhang Xiao explored 9,000 miles of China’s coastline and the photos are fantastic.
Did you know that the work of Robert Frank lives right in our backyard? “The Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery of Art is the largest repository of materials related to renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank“
The FAA will permit drones for journalism, starting with CNN.
The Library of Congress is celebrating the 7th birthday of their Flickr Commons account with a virtual game that let’s you explore it.
“In deeply conservative Kabul, dozens of Afghans flock to the Oqab Paintball Club each week to to take their mind off decades of war.” Photos by Omar Sobhani.
Photographer Danielle Guenther creates scenes depicting the beautiful chaos of parenting.
The Women Photojournalists of Washington will be holding the Fourth Annual Photo Seminar and Portfolio Review On Valentine’s Day. Tickets are available now.
An Autochrome exhibit at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa shows the early years of color photography.
The movie Finding Vivian Maier was nominated for an Oscar in best documentary feature.
After a lifetime of taking photos while dodging bullets, James Natchwey is going to receive the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Dan Bannino has made amazing photos of shelter dogs dressed as writers. The writers span hundreds of years of history, but Bannino sadly only managed to find two women writers to emulate.
Local photographer Keith Lane recently had his book Canals added to the bookstore at the International Center for Photography.
The New York Times is trying to learn the history behind this Gordon Parks photograph of the Jim Crow South.
The ultra-orthadox Israeli newspaper Hamevaser took out Angela Merkel and Anne Hidalgo from a photo of the march in Paris last week. “Binyamin Lipkin, editor of Hamevaser, said the newspaper is a family publication that must be suitable for all audiences, including young children.” Phew, we can imagine how the sight of the type of human that gave birth to you would be traumatizing for a child.
“Karen Mullarkey is one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time.” This two part interview is from last year, but well worth the read.
AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot and injured covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest in Pakistan.
For all of the film lovers out there, Barbara Flueckiger, professor at the Institute of Cinema Studies, University of Zurich has put together a Timeline of Historical Film Colors.
Andrea Bruce has a wonderful series in the New York Times called Revealing a Slowly Changing Cuba.
And finally, two filmmakers captured high speed footage of a Siberian tiger being released to the wild.