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Friday Links: November 6, 2015

November 6, 2015 By James Calder

Registration for our first free 2015 photography class with Knowledge Commons DC opens today! Learn tips to take envy-inducing photos of your food with Exposed pal Samer Farha with tasty dishes from Birch & Barley on November 14 (ETA: Class is full! Sign up for the wait list here). Sign up soon because the class will fill up fast! Tomorrow registration opens for our street photography class with Exposed winner Mukul Ranjan, and open for sign ups later this week, we’ve brought back Chris Williams for his super fun class photographing airplanes at Gravelly Point, and talented wedding and art photographer Sarah Hodzic will teach you the art of the Holga (camera and film provided).

Our monthly happy hour is next Tuesday, November 10, at Lena’s, a brand new restaurant and bar across the street from the Braddock Road metro.
Go to a free film developing workshop this Saturday at Artomatic taught by Exposed DC pal Angela Kleis.
The deadline for the Air & Space Magazine photo contest is November 15. The National Geographic deadline is November 16.
The 2015 annual Women Photojournalists of Washington juried photography exhibition debuts at FotoWeekDC today. The show features 26 images on women’s issues from WPOW members, chosen from more than 150 entries, and will travel to universities and galleries across the United States.
Fascinating photos of North Korea’s illicit economy from Reuter’s photographer Damir Sagolj.
“These fearless female visionaries spotlighted identity politics, the body and sexuality.” Dazed profiles 10 woman photographers whose work you should be following.
A Bronx photographer’s images got the charges against him dropped, and the arresting officer prosecuted instead.
Sardonic pictures of fashionistas by Miles Ladin focus on the intersection of celebrity and culture.
It wasn’t a stunt for the opening of the new James Bond movie: Two dudes in jetpacks fly in formation with an Emirates A380 over Dubai.
Skywatchers in Michigan were treated to an incredible aurora earlier this week.
“Manhattan” is the unofficial name for two once-prestigious high-rises in Oderbruch, near Berlin. Stephanie Steinkopf’s images, taken over four years, show the poverty and camaraderie that exists just outside Germany’s capital.
While visiting a port in Amsterdam, Raymond Waltjen stopped to admire a large ship that passed by close to where he was standing. This inspired his series “Destination” which captures the quiet beauty of solitary freight ships.
A reissue of Philippe Halsman’s “Jump Book” displays his famed method for getting his subjects to let down their defenses and offer a glimpse of their personalities.
Victoria Crayhon documents her use of old marquees to display clever, poetic messages.
How sheepdogs are helping to save penguins from foxes in Australia.

Friday Links: June 26, 2015

June 26, 2015 By James Calder

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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.

Friday Links: June 12, 2015

June 12, 2015 By Heather Goss

In the wake of recent bystander recordings seen in the news, the Washington Post has put together a short video primer on what you need to know about recording the police.
“For the few foreign journalists who have had repeated access to the North, the views from the window become vital, offering counterpoints to the cascade of officially arranged scenes.” Six days in North Korea – photographs and video by David Guttenfelder.
Polaroid’s new ZIP instant printer gets high marks, fits in your pocket, and costs $129 on Amazon plus $25 for each pack of 50 photo sheets. Consider mine purchased.
Out of context you might be unsure of exactly what you’re looking at when you first see the images in Roland Fischer’s series “Facades.” They could be tiles or fabric patterns or perhaps optical illusions.
D.C. photographer Andy DelGuidice reminisces about what hooked him on cheap color film.
“Gaining the trust of the young men and women I portrayed in these photos wasn’t an immediate process.” A month in the life of the youth of Khartoum, Sudan, shot by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah.
Professional storm-chasing photographer Kelly DeLay captured a “shot of a lifetime” — a massive supercell storm cloud extending twin tornados to the ground below.
By peering into the homes of strangers, Gail Albert Halaban hopes to bridge the gap of isolation and disconnectedness of living in large cities. And yes, she has the approval of her subjects.
Leading up to the 68th Annual General Meeting of the Magnum Photos cooperative, its 60 active photographers were asked to select “an image that changed everything.”
The Washington Football Team is hiring a photographer.
Can’t a beaver scratch his bum in peace?

Friday Links

May 23, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Bar Nun by James Calder — Bar Nun by our own James Calder

Happy almost long weekend link lovers! This week we have more bad news from the Corcoran, two grants available to photographers, the changes that were needed at Polaroid, and much more.

Politico has a collection of photos by M. Scott Mahaskey of the annual tradition of the Old Guard placing flags on the graves at Arlington Cemetery.
The group Save the Corcoran posted more bad news this week, “All Corcoran staff, including curatorial, except full-time faculty were given 90 day notices on Monday, May 19, 2014.“
ArtFile Magazine is offering a $500 grant to emerging artists. The grant comes with an in-depth interview that will be published in the magazine this fall.
Need a new camera? One that comes with a phone? This Guardian review of new smartphone cameras could help.
Before you use that new smartphone camera, you should read this NPR story on how constantly photographing our lives can alter our memories.
Winners of the 2014 PDN Photo Annual have been announced. Be prepared to get lost in great images for a while.
The Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Some of the grants reach $10,000.
Photographer Eric Lafforgue captured images of North Korea that the government did not want shared.
“With these three traits in mind: visualization, sharing and affordability, Polaroid went out on a venture to find new product categories that would embody the essence of the brand.” Interesting article on how Polaroid made changes to keep the company alive.
A wedding photographer that hates wedding photography? Yup.
Several men are facing charges after a photograph of Rose Cochran, wife of Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, appeared in a political video. Mrs. Cochran has been in a nursing home for 14 years, and is bedridden with dementia.
And finally, the San Diego Zoo has created a new habitat for the six Sumatran tigers that live there. It has “a waterfall and swimming pool for splashing around, heated rocks for sunbathing, green slopes for running, and shaded nooks for cooling down.”