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Friday Links

March 21, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Viewers take in Best in Show winner "Carnival Giraffe" by Erika Nizborski.

The Exposed DC team, left to right: Meaghan Gay, James Calder, Jennifer Wade, Sanjay Suchak, Heather Goss, and Megan Fogarty.

Checking out Richard Barnhill's "Lincoln Memorial Twilight."

Armando Gallardo's mystery couple in "1+1" proved to be a hit.

Founding Farmers brought soft pretzels and onion dip, spiced nuts, and bacon lollies for guests to enjoy.

District Doughnut brought a selection of their handmade mini-doughnuts for the first couple hundred guests in the door.

Exposed photographer Alex Wong models with the latest in exhibition programs.

Our volunteers help Bluejacket Brewer, Boxwood Winery, Cavanagh Family Imports and A&M Imports at the bar.

The team from Bluejacket Brewery kept the taps flowing.

Exposed photographer Mark Alan Andre with his entourage.

Exposed winner Emily Reid and James Campbell.

No pictures! Pablo Benavente calls off the paparazzi.

Exposed DC director Heather Goss and volunteer Keith Lane at the exhibition program table.

Katie Cavanagh from Cavanagh Family Imports poured their South African wines with volunteers Jennifer Wade and Alex Howe.

John Sonderman poses with friends by his winning photo, "Marine One Arrival."

Baby's first photography show! Exposed winner Philip Yabut brought his family to celebrate the night.

Exposed winner Patrick Onofre and Noe Todorovich.

Guests wait in a light rain to get in the door.

Executive chef Dimo Kolouas puts finishing touches on one of Tel'Veh Wine Bar's Mediterranean dishes.

v:shal kanwar and DJ Sequoia kept the room charged.

Founding Farmers handed out mouthwatering bacon lollies (left) while Dr. Baruch Ben Yehudah and Exposed DC staff member Meg Fogarty dished out delicious soul food from Everlasting Life Cafe.

Jaime Fearer poses next to her winning photo, "Art in the Alley – Trinidad, DC."

Faithful Exposed volunteers Sriram Gopal, Kelly Elmore, and Kelly Rand keep the drinks moving at the bar.

We steamed up the windows late into the evening.

The gallery above features Jim Darling‘s wonderful coverage of our Exposed DC opening reception on Wednesday evening. You can visit the show at Long View Gallery this weekend for free; Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 12 to 5 p.m., and during regular gallery hours through April 6. Meanwhile, the linkage must go on! This week we have a local contest opening, some tough-to-look-at sports photos, and some pioneering Detroit street photography.

Washington Post Express shared an excellent feature on 2014 Exposed DC Photography Show.
Leica Store DC has announced the call for entries for their 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition.
A puppy store in Chantilly is hiring a pet photographer. Who knew there were still puppy stores? Why are there still puppy stores?
Washington Post photographer Andrea Bruce accompanied to the US a recent Iraqi immigrant with whom she had worked in 2003 when she was covering the Iraq war, as he and his 15-year-old son drove from D.C. to Portland, Oregon.
CNN has a nice roundup of sports photos. Some of the shots are cringe inducing.
Kevin Grall, a Maryland photographer, was interviewed by the Baltimore Sun about his work.
London police officers are gaining popularity on Twitter for their aerial photos of the city, taken from helicopters.
“I wanted to photograph Detroit, even though it wasn’t Paris and it wasn’t Versaille. There were different kinds of photographs in Detroit, different subject matter. So I had to shoot what I could find in Detroit. And what I found there was something special that set it apart from New York…” The words and work of 95-year-old Detroit street photographer Bill Rauhauser.
Paul Taylor from Columbia, Maryland was browsing photos on Flickr in January and thinks he may have identified a lost photo of President Lincoln’s funeral procession. The photo was part of the Mathew Brady collection at the National Archives.
Tweets with photos are 94% more likely to be retweeted.
“Nobody knows exactly how many exotic animals now live in captivity in the United States, though it’s estimated that there are at least 5,000 tigers—more than exist in the wild.” National Geographic contemplates if wildlife sanctuaries are good for animal, and includes some beautiful tiger photos.

Friday Links

February 21, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Happy Friday everyone! This week we have the not-so-happy breakup of the Corcoran, a video about a National Geographic archivist, the Leica Store DC’s latest winner, and much more. Enjoy!

Local photographer Jim Darling photographed the home of the founders of Sweetgreen for GQ.
A legal dispute over a photo taken by Maxwell Jackson and used by The Color Run was disputed, and finally settled without going to court. Lesson for everyone, have a contract whenever you license your images.
Photography from Ben Shahn & Marion Post Wolcott of African Americans living in Appalachia.
If you haven’t seen the Faces of Olympic Figure Skating yet, some of the looks are priceless.
The Leica Store DC announced their March Oskar Barnak Wall winner.
“Mainardis estimates that Getty lay down some 22 kilometers of ethernet cable so that most of its 37 photographers could be directly wired in.” Gizmodo breaks down the Olympic effort it takes to produce great images at the Games.
Dado Ruvic, a Reuters photographer, captured the abandoned Olympic venues in Sarajevo.
In case you missed it, the Corcoran is being taken over by GWU and the National Gallery of Art. Philip Kennicott is calling it “cultural euthanasia.”
National Geographic just released a very cool mini-documentary about their photograph archivist, Bill Bonner.
Incredible and horrendous images from the protests in the Ukraine. Be warned that many of those photos are not suitable for everyone.
Check out a sampling of astronaut Don Pettit’s photographs from space.
And finally, in tiger news, the Los Angeles Zoo will be hosting Snow Days this weekend. Their Sumatran tiger will have his pen transformed into a winter wonderland.

Friday Links

January 17, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Our links this week include a kitten photo shoot, Robert Capa’s color photographs, magical Edward Hopper inspired images, an opportunity to meet Bao Bao, and the Leica Store DC’s monthly photo winner. Dive right in, the water’s lovely!

Want to get up close and personal with giant panda cub Bao Bao? The National Zoo is hosting an Instameet, and you need to sign up by January 21.
The butterfly arm tattoo was his initial nomination, but when this guy took his kitten in for a formal portrait at J.C. Penney he won the hipster for life award.
D.C.’s own Pat Padua reviewed Brandon Stanton’s photo book Humans of New York.
The International Center of Photography in New York will be hosting an exhibit of Robert Capa’s color photographs.
Interesting interview with NASA’s chief photographer Bill Ingalls.
Giant grocery store wanted to welcome back Howard University students, but upset many with the photograph they chose. Perhaps if they went with a local photographer instead of stock this wouldn’t have happened.
The New York Portfolio Review is coming back for a second year.
If you are an Android fan, Lifehacker breaks down the best photo apps.
Ghosts of D.C. shared an old photo of a slave auction house in Alexandria this week. Additionally, the Library of Congress hosts a large collection of photographs of African Americans during the Civil War.
Speaking of old photos, the website WhatWasThere.com overlays photographs with the location where they were taken. You can even see the current street view with the old photo sliding in front of it.
Dreamy photographs inspired by Edward Hopper paintings, by Richard Tuschman.
Flak Photo, the online photo publication, is looking for submissions.
Photoshopping an image of Martin Luther King always seems like a bad idea, but using it to promote your twerking event is particularly bad. The event was cancelled.
The New York Times included large, lovely images with their list of “52 Places to Go in 2014”. The best news is that you can scroll down instead of clicking through.
The Leica Store DC announced the January winner for their Oskar Barnack Wall.
Slate shared Eugene Ellenberg’s series “In My Father’s House.” The work “deals with the concept of Ellenberg’s memory of his family and his method for trying to better understand their relationships, as well as attempting to understand exactly who they all are.”
The League of Reston Artists has a call for photographs, for a show at the Reston Chamber of Commerce.
Wired shared the story of Tama Dezso’s photography project in Romania. He has been documenting the crumbling infrastructure left behind after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Steve Winter’s book of tiger images, Tigers Forever, is being used to promote tiger conservation. There are shockingly only approximately 3,000 tigers left in the wild.

Friday Links

November 22, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

From White House press photographers objecting to their lack of access in the Obama White House, to AFP and Getty stealing photos, to photos of indigenous cultures, and Tom Turkey fighting for his life, we have a bit of everything for you this week. Enjoy.

The aerial photos of the tornado destruction in the mid-west are incredible.
A book of 1500 mugshots from the early 20th Century sold at auction for $10,000. The images are fascinating.
A mysterious woman at a grave site is one of many recently rediscovered images from the Jordan Valley.
“But anyone who has followed the case can have no doubt: the behaviour of AFP and Getty has been both willful and reckless, not to mention thuggish and comically incompetent.” Add Getty and AFP to the long list of of people, agencies, and companies stealing photos.
Leica Store DC has announced their second Oskar Barnack Wall winning photograph by Dick Pitini.
Nine Inch Nails dedicated a song to ailing photographer and fan, Andrew Youssef.
Photographer Jimmy Nelson has spent the last several years photographing indigenous cultures. The results are stunning.
The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria is holding a workshop for photographers looking to show their work.
Sorry luddites, Fujifilm is discontinuing their 3×4 Instant black and white film.
The newest edition of the local magazine Worn is online. It’s filled with images by local photographers, so check it out.
PROOF interviewed Maggie Steber and Lynn Johnson about how being women has impacted their photography career, in both positive and negative ways.
Photographer Francois Brunelle created portraits of unrelated people who look nearly identical. We promise they look more alike than Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
Old photos from the 1930s & 40s of turkeys getting ready to be a Thanksgiving meal. Let’s hope the turkey wearing a protest sign made it.
Balthazar Korab was working for Eero Saarinen when he created these stunning images of the architect’s work including shots of Dulles Airport under construction.
Cecil Stoughton was the official White House photographer working during the Kennedy assassination. Stoughton took the iconic photographs of Johnson being sworn in on Air Force One.
Speaking of White House photographers, Pete Souza’s images sure are pretty, but they aren’t proper news coverage. Journalists have been protesting what they believe is the White House creating their own Soviet-style news service, by barring journalists from Presidential events. The White House this morning provided this photographic retort.
And finally, we will end on a happy note the Little Rock Zoo announced the birth of two new tiger cubs.