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Friday Links

June 6, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Today marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, and the Atlantic has many amazing then and now photos from that day and current times.
“Whether or not your compositions are compelling depends not on some magic recipe, but rather on a thorough understanding of lens choice, point of view, elements of design, and final arrangement, or composition.” Great post by Brian F. Peterson on the Capital Photography Center blog on perspective.
Our friends at the Leica Store DC are hosting a street photography workshop this weekend.
Photos of abandoned buildings and some creepy dude in an owl costume. Really.
Photographer Jacob Riis captured many of the people living in the slums of New York City during the Gilded Age.
PDN reviewed the new Nikon D4S.
If you haven’t seen it yet, this weekend is your last chance to see the Gary Winogrand exhibit at the National Gallery of Art.
The Women Photojournalists of Washington are launching a new website next week, and are hosting a party to celebrate on June 10.
Instagram is rolling out new photo editing tools. Could this be the end of terrible filters? Please?
And finally, online dating profile pics with tigers are all the rage and an excellent way to automatically know who you should never, ever go on a date with.

Friday Links

May 23, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Bar Nun by James Calder — Bar Nun by our own James Calder

Happy almost long weekend link lovers! This week we have more bad news from the Corcoran, two grants available to photographers, the changes that were needed at Polaroid, and much more.

Politico has a collection of photos by M. Scott Mahaskey of the annual tradition of the Old Guard placing flags on the graves at Arlington Cemetery.
The group Save the Corcoran posted more bad news this week, “All Corcoran staff, including curatorial, except full-time faculty were given 90 day notices on Monday, May 19, 2014.“
ArtFile Magazine is offering a $500 grant to emerging artists. The grant comes with an in-depth interview that will be published in the magazine this fall.
Need a new camera? One that comes with a phone? This Guardian review of new smartphone cameras could help.
Before you use that new smartphone camera, you should read this NPR story on how constantly photographing our lives can alter our memories.
Winners of the 2014 PDN Photo Annual have been announced. Be prepared to get lost in great images for a while.
The Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Some of the grants reach $10,000.
Photographer Eric Lafforgue captured images of North Korea that the government did not want shared.
“With these three traits in mind: visualization, sharing and affordability, Polaroid went out on a venture to find new product categories that would embody the essence of the brand.” Interesting article on how Polaroid made changes to keep the company alive.
A wedding photographer that hates wedding photography? Yup.
Several men are facing charges after a photograph of Rose Cochran, wife of Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, appeared in a political video. Mrs. Cochran has been in a nursing home for 14 years, and is bedridden with dementia.
And finally, the San Diego Zoo has created a new habitat for the six Sumatran tigers that live there. It has “a waterfall and swimming pool for splashing around, heated rocks for sunbathing, green slopes for running, and shaded nooks for cooling down.”

Friday Links

May 16, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

This week we have lots of great local events, news about the Corcoran merger, and amazing photos of the things you can carry on a motorbike.

26-year-old French photojournalist Camille Lepage was killed in the Central African Republic while covering fighting near the border of Cameroon. Lepage had been sharing photos on Instagram, but hadn’t posted since May 6.
The final details of the Corcoran, National Gallery of Art, and George Washington University Deal have been announced, and it looks like many Corcoran adjunct professors and university staffers will lose their jobs.
The Los Angeles Times has some stunning and frightening images of the fires raging near San Diego.
This weekend is the Worldwide Instameet, and there are several local events you can attend to celebrate.
Jill Abramson, who was fired from the New York Times this week, broke her silence with a photo. A pretty badass photo at that.
The Guardian examines Walker Evan’s little known magazine contributions. “His work for magazines adds another layer of understanding in terms of how an already great artist saw the world.”
Tomorrow the Pulitzer Center is hosting a talk at NPR headquarters called “Beyond Witness.” Three members of VII photo agency will be on the panel.
We are a little late to this party, but AFP has been posting photos on Pinterest.
Photographer Hans Kemp has been photographing all of the shocking things that fit on Vietnamese motorbikes. The dead shark is particularly alarming.
Here is a little nostalgia, with photos from a Game Boy camera.
“When he first posted his pictures online, he was called in front of the council of elders and forced to delete the images off his Flickr account in front of them.” Photographer Kelly Hofer photographed life inside his closed Hutterite community.
Jim Cummins’ rock ‘n roll photography was recently re-discovered. Hear both Cummins’ and curator Chris Murray’s perspective in this NPR story.
The DC F-Stop Group is holding a meeting Monday night to explore Outdoor and Indoor photo challenges.
And finally, just because your name is Tyga it doesn’t mean you should own a tiger.

Lots of local happenings this week – an interview with Rebecca Drobis, a photo exhibit at the Newseum, Slideluck DC is looking for submissions, the Leica Store DC announced their monthly photo winner, and much more – dig in!

Larissa Leclair, from the local Indie Photobook Library is going to teach master photobook making classes. There is no sign up yet, but you can join the IPL mailing list for more details (bottom of the page).
A photo from the world’s largest pinhole camera went on display this week at National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center. The massive print is a “gelatin silver photograph that measures 31 feet high and 107 feet wide.”
Will Calumet be returning? An announcement from C&A Marketing, the company which purchased all of their assets, leaves some hope open.
While this tumblr may be a little old, the advice still remains valid. Shit My Photography Professor Says has such gems as, “Don’t take pictures in graveyards. What are you even doing there? Life takes place somewhere between the beach and the graveyard.”
Local photographer Rebecca Drobis was interviewed by The Image, Deconstructed about her work on the Blackfeet Reservation in Heart Butte, Montana.
Slideluck DC is looking for new submissions for their 9th show, which will be held on June 21. The theme of the show is Solstice, and work should be submitted by May 22.
“The photojournalism world makes such a song and dance about ‘giving people a voice’, not least poor and war ravaged women and black people but what does that really mean if the industry is so ambivalent to passive sexism/racism?” Interesting comments on conflicts of interest and diversity in the World Press Photo awards.
Narrative is holding a story telling contest that includes photo essays.
Leica Store DC’s latest Oskar Barnack Wall winner is Lawrence Solum with his photograph titled “The Wash House.”
The Telegraph has a beautiful collection of David Yarrow’s wildlife work.
The Newseum will be hosting some of the winners of the Pictures of the Year International contest. The images will be on exhibit until September 1.
Women Photojournalists of Washington will hold their monthly Happy Hour next Thursday.
The Buenos Aires Zoo is showing off its latest brood of white tigers – Bengal triplets with piercing blue eyes and a playful attitude.

Friday Links

April 25, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Charlottesville V by His Noodly Appendage

Happy Friday! Our links this week include more awards for Tyler Hicks, the National Zoo trying to help Sumatran Tigers, great photos of local food, and a possible ban on overly photoshopped images.

This week Lytro announced the Illum, a new light-field camera. Light-field (or plenoptic) cameras capture all of the light in a given scene, allowing you to make significant changes to photos, like choosing different focus points and even perspective, after you’ve taken them.
Local photographer, and two-time Exposed winner, Rey Lopez has mouth-watering images of chef Matt Adler making gnocchi on Eater DC.
After years of clarifying that she was Indian, and not Native American, photographer Annu Palakunnathu Matthew uses the diptych to compare and contrast her Indian cultural heritage to Native American Indians.
Zoey and Jasper – a rescue dog and her little boy. Because adorable.
Terry Richardson was accused again this week of sexual harassment, after a model shared a message he allegedly sent offering a Vogue photo shoot in exchange for sex. This is not the first time someone has stepped forward with accusations against Richardson, with some of those including sexual assault. Can the photo world agree to be done with this predator already?
Photographer Aline Smithson has made all of your doll nightmares a reality.
Tyler Hicks won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award this week for his story on the 2013 attack on a Nairobi mall. Hicks also won the Pulitzer Prize for the story, and shared behind the scenes information about it with NPR.
Photographer Rohan Anderson photographed a band for a publication, and the band subsequently used his photo without permission. The band did not like his request for payment, and responded like whiney five-year olds. After the story went viral, the band paid up. No word on if they apologized for posting the photo using a pseudo HDR filter.
Photographer Zahir Batin has revealed the private lives of Storm Troopers. This of course includes waiting at the AT-AT stop and feeding baby chickens.
We can agree that excessive photoshopping is terrible, but do we need a law banning it? And if we are banning things, can we at least start with selective color images?
The Smithsonian has created the Endangered Song project to raise money for the 400 remaining Sumatran Tigers, who are at risk of going extinct. They printed 400 lathe-cut records of a song by the band Portugal. The Man, which will degrade over time and ‘go extinct’ unless it’s digitally reproduced. You can see more tiger photos on the Zoo’s Instagram page.