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Friday Links: April 24, 2015

April 24, 2015 By James Calder

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This year’s Washington Post Squirrel Week Photo Contest was won by Exposed regular and animal photographer extraordinaire, Angela Napili. Bravo Angela!
Excellent photography non-profit Critical Exposure has launched a Kickstarter to create a mobile digital gallery that will showcase social justice photography created by D.C. youth.
Capital Weather Gang highlighted some striking photos of Monday’s huge lightning storm. Kevin Ambrose stacked 42 different lightning shots into one image that seems to portray the end of days for D.C., while Exposed alum Gary Silverstein used the lightning to frame the Iwo Jima memorial beautifully.
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch photography staff won the Breaking News Photography award for their “powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO”, while New York Times freelancer Daniel Berehulak took Feature Photography “for his gripping, courageous photographs of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”
With this week’s presentation of the World Press photo awards, the New York Times Lens blog presents a conversation with photographers, curators and photo editors on the struggle between photojournalistic ethics and evolving visual storytelling strategies.
The Hubble Space Telescope turned 25 this week. NASA celebrated by releasing a gorgeous image of a 3,000 star cluster. Over at Air & Space magazine, Exposed’s Heather Goss interviewed 10 scientists about the Hubble images they worked with and how each one helped usher in a new age of astronomy. The New York Times also jumped on the bandwagon.
The 27th annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest opened this month with some tremendous prizes up for grabs. Submit your best travel photos in any of four categories, and check back weekly to see galleries of the top entries.
Chile’s Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday without warning. The first imagery to do the rounds was a time-lapse of the eruption. Then came a series of incredible individual photos followed most recently by striking shots of the ash fall.
Davide Monteleone’s “In the Russian East” is a tribute both to Richard Avedon’s “In the American West” and to the lure of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In the remote village of Mawlynnong in northeast India, the Khasi tribe follows a rare tradition of women running the show.
Two friends sent each other selfies every day for a year, and only communicated through those photos (no calls or texts).
Artsy, ad-free social network Ello recently launched its own photography community – @ellophotography
A rare and gorgeous quadruple rainbow was spotted in Long Island.

Friday Links: April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015 By Heather Goss

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Don’t get out of the Jeep on safari, even if you might get a great photo.
LIFE Magazine’s photo essay of a working mother in the 1950s.
Alison Nastasi had published a compilation of photos of famous artists and their cats.
“Through the African American Lens,” culled from a Smithsonian collection, shows how photography — and black photographers — reshaped a people’s image.
NY family loses legal battle against photographer who secretly shot them through the windows of their apartment and then put them in an exhibit.
For three years, photographer Michael Soluri had exclusive access to the astronaut crew, labor force and tools of the shuttle mission that saved and extended the life of the Hubble Space Telescope.
These photos could be better, but the idea and subjects here are interesting: Where did John Wilkes Booth run after he shot Lincoln? Nate Larson shows in his series “Escape Routes” that the path Booth took is a mix of truck stops, suburbs, highways, and back roads.
The Atlantic’s CityLab writes about citizens’ rights to photograph and videotape the police, discussing some of the same cases covered in this National Press Club panel with local officials we reported on in 2013.
“When I photograph my subjects, I do not set out to construct a narrative, though each photograph ends up marking moments and landmarks from my life.” A photo essay by Texan photographer Armando Alvarez.
Local Craigslist ad seeks mustachioed individual to pose with turtles. I hope this is real, and that we get to see the resulting images.
Pete Souza tweets that this is last term in the White House.
It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Grants up to $10,000 are up for grabs.
Imagine yourself decidedly out of town with these Icelandic mountain peaks in blue by Andy Lee.
Sony and the Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand trained the world’s first Octographer because they’re good with animals and cameras but now how words work, I guess.

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.