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Friday Links: June 26, 2015

June 26, 2015 By James Calder

Guitar Man by Zach Kalman
Guitar Man by Zach Kalman

Be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter to keep updated on our exhibits, happy hours, and other events. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for photo news, share your photos in our Flickr group, and tag your photos #exposeddc to get featured on Instagram and our website.

  • Enter this Phillips Collection contest by submitting your own “American Moment” and you could win a camera from the Leica Store DC, or another great prize. The deadline is 5 p.m., July 21.
  • Head over to the DC Arts Center July 8-10 to claim your space for their popular, annual 1460 Wallmountables exhibit. They’ve been doing this show since 1989!
  • Mega-photo-op alert! Watch this 10,000-square-foot ball pit being constructed at the National Building Museum on their livecam, and visit the installation starting July 4.
  • The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, an intensive training program for writers, radio producers and photographers that has operated in Maine for 42 years, is shutting its doors in September.
  • Concert photographer Jason Sheldon calls out Taylor Swift for her “hypocritical” open letter to Apple.
  • Instagram appears to be back to normal in North Korea after a week of warnings on user accounts saying the popular photo-sharing app had been blacklisted for harmful content.
  • Have fears about privacy, terrorism, and pedophilia ruined street photography?
  • Ellie Davies merges images of stars and galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope with landscapes from English forests. She starts by creating the photographs of the landscape, looking for compositions that could accommodate other shapes, and then looks for a suitable starscape to fill the space. The results are dreamlike.
  • Another photographer combining images is Stephen McMennamy whose #combophoto project may look like surreal photo-manipulations created using Photoshop, but are actually the result of a much simpler process, cleverly arranging two photos side-by-side to create imaginative and amusing new scenes.
  • Danish photographer Ken Hermann tries to capture the person behind the mask in his series on Los Angeles street performers, many of whom dress as famous Hollywood characters.
  • Watch this tiger be released into the Russian wild where he’ll have a gal pal and lots to feast on.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Apple, ball-pit, Chris Suspect, DCAC, Ellie Davies, Instagram, Ken Hermann, North Korea, Phillips Collection, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Stephen McMennamy, street photography, Taylor Swift, the BEACH, tiger

Friday Links: March 27, 2015

March 26, 2015 By James Calder

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

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Chuck Kelton, clouds, Fox Grom, friday links, guardiancities, Hubble, James Jackson, Ken Hermann, kodak, Lasse Bak Mejlvang, Lawrence Schwartzwald, Lily Bushelle, National Geographic, Pivot, Siberian Huskies, Steve McCurry, Vincent Laforet

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