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Friday Links: October 24, 2014

October 24, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

You have one more week to see our Exposed DC / InstantDC Fall Review at the Washington School of photography, closing October 31. There are tons of photography-related events going on this weekend, so head to our calendar to find them all. Got an event to add? Let us know. Sign up for our newsletter to keep apprised of upcoming Exposed events (psst: save the date for our next happy hour on Wednesday, November 5, and keep your eyes out for some big fall events we’re working on).

Local photographer Joshua Cogan’s work with D.C. boxer Dusty Hernandez-Harrison is highlighted in the Washingtonian this week.
You can now follow the Women Photojournalists of Washington on Instagram.
Speaking of the WPOW, one of their members and National Geographic photo editor Mallory Benedict was featured on Career Contessa this week.
“How does one give dignity to the image of a woman who has died and is lying on the ground, unattended, uncovered and alone as people walk by or gaze from a distance? But I believe that the world must see the horrible and dehumanizing effects of Ebola. The story must be told; so one moves around with tender care, gingerly, without extreme intrusion.” Story and photos from Washington Post photographer Michel du Cille.
The Washington School of Photography has office space available for photographers.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco opened a show this week featuring the work of Arnold Newman. “The show is the first major exhibition since Newman’s death, and features well-known portraits, as well as early street photography, architectural and still life works.”
Washington birth photographer Emily Goodstein shares what it takes to be part of one of the most intimate moments possible.
Famed Swiss photographer and member of Magnum Photos, René Burri passed away this week at the age of 81. The post on the Magnum Blog contains links to his images.
Images from the winners of the 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, include overall winner Michael Nichols.
And finally, another amazing tiger photo from Steve Winter.

Friday Links

June 20, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Can you believe it’s the end of the week already? If not, here are some Friday Links to help it sink in: there’s a former inmate revisiting his old prison, emotive portraits of Kiev protesters and mourners, the 2013 iPhone award winners, and Neil Armstrong as you’ve never seen him before.

Renowned photo agency Magnum is using Instagram to sell prints for $100 a pop.
Photographer Antoine Bruy has been photographing people living off the grid in Europe.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind took poignant photographs of Kiev protesters and mourners in a makeshift studio next to the barricades on Hrushevskoho Street.
Saturday night is the opening of East Coast Rock and Roll Photography at Hill & Dale Records in Georgetown.
Neil Armstrong is the subject of one the most iconic photos of all time, but you’ve probably never seen him like this. The university has additional photos in the Neil Armstrong archive.
Former inmate Nick Brooks had trouble finding work, so he took up photography. He never felt truly free until he returned with his camera to the now abandoned jail that once held him.
Heading to New York City this summer? Running through the beginning of September, the Met has an exhibit of the photography of concealment.
Photographer Ksenia Yurkova gives us a rare glimpse into Zarechny, one of Russia’s last “closed cities”,
Want to see some great iPhone shots? The 2014 iPhone Photography awards were announced this week.
Zun Lee set out to make images that would break the stereotype of the absent black father, and has done just that.
The deadline for the APA Awards Photo Competition is next week, so get your photos in.
“Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay” documents the gay communities of LA and San Francisco from 1969 to 1973, a pivotal time in gay culture.
Photographer Eilon Paz captured the proud owners of the largest record collections in the world in his photo project “Dust and Grooves”.
And finally, three bengal tigers were born at an animal sanctuary in Maine. Two of the cubs are rare white tigers.

Friday Links

March 7, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

We have a long list of links this week including shocking news from Getty Images, a collaboration between Magnum Photos and the Smithsonian, where to get your aura photographed and much, much more.

In news that has shocked many this week, Getty Images announced that they will be making their images free to use. The British Journal of Photography is all over the story, including responses from ASMP and NPPA.
Remember what you looked like in 1987? Karl Baden does. He took a photo of himself every day for the last 27 years.
Dog photo booths are much cooler than people photo booths. Photos by Lynn Terry.
The Northern Lights have been putting on a show in the UK. Some of the images look like scenes from Harry Potter.
The LA Times interviewed veteran National Geographic photographer William Albert Allard.
The going rate for getting your aura photographed seems rather reasonable.
Lenscape and Shifra are two new app online photography magazines.
“My photographs are a more useful first draft than my attempted prose was, a richer archive than the pages of my binders.” Casey Cep explores the relationship between photography and writing.
Do you have $50,000 burning a hole in your pocket? If so, you can buy Andy Warhol’s Polaroid camera.
Learn how Time made the panoramic image atop One World Trade Center.
A compilation list of image libraries owned by the federal government.
“Khalid Mohammed, a photographer for the Associated Press, took a picture 10 years ago of two charred American bodies hanging from a bridge and surrounded by a crowd of cheering Iraqis.” Here’s the impact a single image had on the Iraq War.
At the Paris Exposition in 1900, W.E.B. DuBois presented an exhibit about the history and “present condition” of African Americans. The exhibit had many photographs, and 114 years later we can see them online at the Library of Congress website.
Magnum Photos and the Smithsonian have teamed up for an exhibit called Unintended Journeys. The exhibit “provides a glimpse into the lives of humans displaced by global climate change and some of the most devastating natural disasters in the past decade.”
Are your cell phone camera, DSLR, and point and shoot not enough for you? NPR did a story on a tiny camera that clips on your clothes to record everything you see.
And finally, the Land of the Tiger exhibit opens this weekend at the Jacksonville Zoo.