- The City Paper has a short review on the photo exhibit at the U.S. Botanical Gardens.
- Copyright law is complicated and confusing, especially when Wikipedia argues that since this endangered crested black macaque took the photo himself, the photographer has no rights to it. But if David Slater doesn’t have the copyright, who does? (Hint: Not the monkey.)
- Photographer Jonathan French will be honored next week at the Third Annual East of the River Distinguished Artist Awards Reception.
- “The winners of the Popcap 14 prize for contemporary African photography cover everything from fictional set ups of tribal rituals to the impact of mining on forgotten communities.” You can see some of the winners over on The Guardian.
- This is the kind of “baby” photo session we can get behind: one with a dog.
- At the Leica Store, this month’s Oskar Barnack Wall winning photograph was shot by Kashif Javaid.
- Notorious Russian “rooftoppers” Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov take death-defying photos from high atop skyscrapers around the world. Their latest destination: Hong Kong.
- The yet to open National Museum of African American History and Culture made an acquisition of rare photographs of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Smile for the cameras! Every attendee at two concerts last year in Boston were photographed by the city. “We’re not talking about old school black and white surveillance cameras. More like technology that analyzes every passerby for height, clothing, and skin color.” Yikes.
- A shrinking salt lake leaves an extinct volcano’s cone exposed in the Iranian desert, as seen in this amazing photo from the ISS.
- Dear Leader really, really, really likes lubricant.
- German photographer Herlinde Koelbl has published Targets, a photo documentary book featuring shooting targets from 30 countries used during military training.
- This is the last week to catch the Magnum exhibit Unintended Journeys at the Natural History Museum.
- “Troy Holden didn’t carry around a camera when he first moved to San Francisco in 1996. Now, he wishes he had. Since then, his adopted city has changed quite a bit.”
- Care for the Wild International is asking tourists to stop taking selfies with tigers while traveling abroad, as the money they spend funds animal abuse.
