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In Frame: April 18, 2016

April 18, 2016 By Caroline Space

This image by Mark Maguire is another great edition of Museum Fatigue. I love all the characters in the scene–this made me laugh so much.

Friday Links: September 11, 2015

September 11, 2015 By Heather Goss

On Thursday, NASA’s New Horizons mission team published new and spectacular pictures of Pluto taken during its fly-by in July.
National Geographic gives Fox control of its media assets in $725 million deal creating new for-profit business.
Getty Images and Instagram announced three winners of their inaugural $10,000 grant to continue documenting stories from underrepresented communities.
David Maurice Smith’s tells the story of a turning point in the refugee crisis in Hungary when hundreds of men, women and children walked from Keleti station in Budapest to the Austrian border.
“Les Danseurs” is the result of a year that photographer Matthew Brookes spent with professional male ballet dancers in Paris. Brookes asked the dancers to think of falling birds when they posed for him.
Go take your camera out to a ton of local festival and events this weekend, including the DC State Fair, Columbia Heights Day (my favorite capybara petting opportunity of the year), Adams Morgan Day, the 17th Street Festival, the Nation’s Triathlon, and Snallygaster. Also Madonna is playing the Verizon Center on Saturday night, so you might find some spectacular 80s-era gear in line.
On the evening of September 9, 2015 Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history. The BBC presents an image from the archives of the Press Association from every year of her reign.
In his new book “00:00.00” Edgar Martins photographed a BMW car plant in Munich apparently at a complete standstill. The crash test center images are particularly creepy.
It’s the Maryland wedding photographer versus the DJ in #Weddingphotogate.
Wired does a public service reporting on the Adventure Cats of Instagram.

Friday Links: August 7, 2015

August 7, 2015 By James Calder

its a staircase with a skylight at the top by Jill Slater

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for 6pm Tuesday, August 11 when photographers and photography lovers will gather at Right Proper Brewing for our monthly DC Photography Happy Hour.

Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has opened its 3rd annual photo contest. Send them your best military and civilian airplane and spacecraft images and your impressive astrophotography by November 15.
Investigative photojournalist Ruben Espinosa was found shot in Mexico City last week. Free speech advocacy group Article 19 told The Guardian that “the killing of Espinosa marked a new level of violence against journalists in Mexico.”
National Geographic has announced the winners of its 2015 Traveler Photo Contest.
During the almost two decades that Nathan Benn was a staff photographer at National Geographic, he estimates he shot around 1,000 rolls of 35mm film a year. Yet, he probably saw about 10 percent of those photos.
After 85 years, Blacks Photography is closing down across Canada. This radio documentary about the company and the people who worked there is excellent. Meanwhile, Lens Rentals Canada is also calling it quits.
Last year Washington Post staff photojournalist Jahi Chikwendiu spent several days and nights documenting the scenes of protest and face-offs between law enforcement and local residents in Ferguson, MO after the death of Michael Brown. A year later, Washington Post photojournalist Jabin Botsford retraced Chikwendiu’s steps and photographs to document the many ways the community of Ferguson has changed, and, in some cases, stayed the same.
70 years ago this week the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 of its 350,000 citizens. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Photographer Issei Kato has paired archive images of the ruins with how they look today.
Survivors of the atomic bomb attacks in Japan talk about their experiences, and their fears about the government’s plans to reboot the country’s nuclear reactors taken offline after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
As a huge and controversial process of redevelopment sweeps across south London’s Brixton neighborhood, photographer Georgios Makkas captures the railway-arch businesses fearing for their future amid potential rent hikes.
An ambitious new survey of photography in Cuba aims to challenge long-held notions about how the island has been portrayed.
Google and MIT researchers demo an algorithm that lets you take clear photos through reflections. Astonishing.

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.

Friday Links: December 5, 2014

December 5, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

In case you missed it, the ninth annual Exposed DC Photography Contest opened for entries this week; get those entries in before January 7! And don’t forget to stop by Bloombars in Columbia Heights to check out the extended run of our Instant DC Fall Review – it closes December 14. Meanwhile, links are a go:

The Washington City Paper has compiled a gallery of Darrow Montgomery’s photographs of D.C.’s Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry, who died Sunday aged 78.
Cab driver Mike Harvey has been photographing his passengers, and the results are very interesting.
Brian Shul, an SR-71 Blackbird pilot and photographer, describes the day he took his favorite picture.
Richard Koci Hernandez, a prolific Instagram photographer, has decided to delete all of his photos.
The nerve-wracking process of shooting the very last space shuttle launch.
And here’s veteran NASA photographer Bill Ingalls shooting today’s Orion launch. Nice lens, brah!
Photographer Tim Matsui documented the sexual exploitation of children, and painful cycle of drug addiction.
Ten National Geographic photographers give thanks for the photos that changed them.
If you printed every Instagram photo uploaded in a year, the results would reach very, very, very high.
Photographer Stuart Pilkington paired photographers together to see how they would photograph each other. The portraits are an interesting look at the people typically behind the lens.
Brazilian surfer and photographer João Pedro takes still photos with a GoPro either mounted to his surfboard or in hand without a surfboard at all. And they’re phenomenal.
The Boston Globe has started a new photo page which showcases images from their archives called the Globe Collection. The photos span from local to international news, and are a good place to spend some free time perusing images.
Riding along with Norway’s Hells Angels.
This drone video of the area around Chernobyl is haunting.
A major exhibit of the New York Public Library’s vast photo collection is a reminder that photography has always been a social medium.
What do we want? Incredibly detailed photos of brains in jars! When do we want them? Brains!!
Berlin-based photographer Patrick Morarescu captures performance artists right after they finish their shows.
This labrador retriever is an abandoned tiger cub’s new mom.