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Friday Links: January 30, 2015

January 30, 2015 By Heather Goss

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  • After this week’s drone incident at the White House, DJI – the drone’s manufacturer – has issued a mandatory firmware update disabling the use of their devices in D.C.’s no-fly zone.
  • Sports Illustrated laid off the rest of its photography staff this week. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
  • Sometimes the best moments of Saturday Night Live are the host portrait bumpers. Mary Ellen Matthews, the photographer who’s been doing them since 1999, talks about her work.
  • Vantage recently posted the second in a two-part interview with Karen Mullarky, “one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time.” Part 1, Part 2.
  • “I tried to imagine my life as a mother. I couldn’t think of a single female war photographer who had a stable relationship, much less a husband or a baby.” The New York Times published an excerpt by photojournalist Lynsey Addario from her book “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War,” available February 5.
  • Remote cameras caught a rare glimpse of a Sierra Nevada red fox in Yosemite National Park.
  • Photographer Carrie Schneider’s response to the lack of women in our literary canon.
  • Photographer Jim Magnan followed professional rally driver Ken Block kick up all the dust in southern Utah.
  • This gallery of Supermarket Spaceships shows life-size rockets inspired by 1950s TV-shows that used to tour the country to advertise bread and meat products.
  • While their images of the recent snowstorm had been solicited by the New York Times, Instagrammers only discovered their front-page placement by chance.
  • Meanwhile, here are some old photographs showing the aftermath of a huge snow storm that hit the eastern seaboard in March of 1888.
  • PDN Magazine is looking for “emerging photographers” to feature in their next issue. Is one of them you?
  • Welcome to Oymyakon, Russia – the coldest town on earth. It’s dark for 21 hours a day and, during winter, temperatures average minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Art Shay, now 92 and one of the 20th century’s most prolific photographers, is starting to get the “appreciation from the art world he’s long deserved.”
  • 15-year-old white tiger Omar got a routine medical exam at Wildlife Reserves Singapore; his keepers have trained him to stay calm so the tiger, entering his senior years, won’t have to go through the stress of being sedated.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Art Shay, drone, foxes, jim magnan, karen mullarky, lynsey addario, mary ellen matthews, rockets, russia, saturday night life, snow, space, Sports Illustrated, tigers, war photography, yosemite

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