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Friday Links: November 20, 2015

November 20, 2015 By James Calder

10 minutes of surreal DC weather... by Jeff Reardon
10 minutes of surreal DC weather… by Jeff Reardon

 

Huge thanks to Knowledge Commons DC and to each of our volunteer teachers – Samer Farha, Mukul Ranjan, Chris Williams, and Sarah Hodzic – for putting on our free photography classes this week! We hope to have another session for you soon. And to all of you who signed up for the classes, thank you and well done on nabbing a spot – they were in high demand! If you’re proud of any of the photos you shot during one of the classes, please consider entering them in our 10th annual contest which opens in just a couple of weeks. Now for the links you’ve been waiting for:

  • White House photography editor and photojournalist Rick McKay died this week at his home in Virginia. President Obama offered a tribute to his work.
  • Regular Flickr contributor Tony Quinn‘s photographs from 1983 bear witness to Team America – D.C.’s short-lived, oft-forgotten soccer club.
  • In a curious move, Reuters has banned its photographers from submitting images edited from RAW files, it says, to save time and prevent egregious editing.
  • “Photographing the daily life of Muslims in Paris is a challenge. I discovered this by throwing myself into the project, which rapidly became a story of failed encounters, rejection and disappointment.” Photos and words by Reuters photographer Youssef Boudlal.
  • Police in body armor showed up at an office building in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after someone called 911 to report a gunman holding a machine gun. Turns out it was a photographer holding a tripod.
  • “Over 96 percent of pro photographers surveyed don’t regularly register their copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office despite nearly unanimous (99 percent) agreement with the statement that copyright protection is an important aspect of their careers.”
  • James and Karla Murray’s Store Front photography books capture a disappearing world: New York’s small stores and their unique and precious aesthetics.
  • It’s gift buying season. Maybe someone you know needs one of these books on digital photography for beginners?
  • One of the more complex concepts for photographers, especially beginners, is the relationship between ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. Photoblog Hamburg has a simple but clever infographic explaining how they all work.
  • See Mexican photographer Jesús Jiménez’s images of currency at the Organization of American States through January 15.
  • A small-town farmer traces his lineage to a 19th-century African prince who was enslaved and taken to work in the silver mines of Bolivia.
  • Laura Husar Garcia’s Beyond the Veil examines the rarely asked question about what happens to nuns after they retire.
  • To mark the 20th anniversary of the Dayton agreement, which brought an end to the Bosnian war, photographers Stéphanie Borcard and Nicolas Métraux have captured the divisions, the dark clouds and the young hope there today.
  • Stray cats steal the spotlight from world leaders at the G20 Summit in Turkey. [Video]

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: beginners, Bolivia, books, Bosnia, copyright, G20, infographic, Jesus Jimenez, KCDC, Laura Husar Garcia, Muslim, nuns, OAS, Paris, Photography Classes, police, RAW files, Rick McKay, soccer, stray cats, Team America, Tony Quinn

Friday Links: September 4, 2015

September 3, 2015 By James Calder

Peach by Jeffrey Morris
Peach by Jeffrey Morris

Thursday, September 10, 6pm-8pm, head over to the Leica Store for our first ever combination Happy Hour + Fire Sale! Need more art for your walls? How about some early holiday gift shopping? We’re offloading all the leftover framed prints from Exposed shows past, along with a set from Jim Darling. All pieces are priced at an unbeatable $50! Oh, and there’ll be free beer and wine (while supplies last). We’ll see you there!

  • After 35 years of photographing presidential primaries, Jim Cole talks about how to get the shot.
  • Photographer Meike Nixdorf hacks Google Earth to create stunning mountain shots.
  • Mapbox shares high- to ultra-high-res aerial photography of New Zealand that’s so good you can see the individual colors of vegetables in a farmers market bin.
  • “Occupied Pleasures,” a photobook featuring everyday images of joy of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, didn’t make it to the book launch party because they were detained at customs in the Tel Aviv airport.
  • It’s ‘National Treasure’ in real life: How photography is used to reveal secrets of the past.
  • Eager to change the narrative of what he considered “insincere” press coverage of the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, photographer William Sands spent several months in the Gilmor Homes housing complex in Baltimore where Gray once lived. Sands also spent an extensive period of time with close friends of Gray to more closely examine the protests and their lives and community in the wake of Gray’s death.
  • Next stop, Siberia! The strange and beautiful world of Soviet bus stops.
  • The beautiful old signs of Paris are as elegant as the city itself. Louise Fili documents them for posterity’s sake in her upcoming book.
  • From 5,000 feet, Australia’s magnificent salt fields reflected in a maze of ethereal blues.
  • Images of Tokyo’s much-loved Hotel Okura over the years, whose main building will soon be torn down for redevelopment.
  • Wrestling komodo dragons and thirsty squirrels are among the creatures captured on camera by the 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalists.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: 2015 wildlife finalists, aerial, bus stops, Freddie Gray, google hack, hotel, Israel, mountains, Palestine, Paris, primaries, salt fields, ultra-high-res, William Sands

Friday Links: November 7, 2014

November 7, 2014 By James Calder

autumn reflections by Ilona Szczot
autumn reflections by Ilona Szczot

This Sunday from 2-4 p.m., join us at the opening reception for the extended run of our InstantDC Fall Review show! The new venue for these beautiful photographs is BloomBars in Columbia Heights. Keep your eyes peeled for exciting news in the coming days about a new series of Exposed-sponsored photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC! While you’re salivating, here are this week’s links:

  • FotoWeekDC kicks off tonight. Wondering what to pick from the overwhelming array of events and shows? Check our handy-dandy guide for recommendations.
  • Alejandro Almaraz composites images of world leaders to examine how different nations view power.
  • Bryan Adams’ heart-stopping images of wounded British soldiers.
  • WIRED interviews Tatiana Gulenkina, one of our InstantDC Fall Review show selections.
  • In case you needed a new idea for your nightmares: images of inside out teddy bears.
  • Intimate images from the Golden Age of Silicon Valley from this book by photographer Doug Menuez.
  • “I like the negotiation of street photography, which depends on quickly reading people, on trying to understand their house, their ark, their things, with only the slightest of visual clues.”
  • Avid underworld explorer and photographer Brendan Marris has compiled iconic shots of the vast cave systems in the U.K.
  • From outrageous uniforms to shoulder calluses: photographs of life in a marching band by Walter Pickering.
  • A mesmerizing time lapse video of Paris by Yann Muncy.
  • Shorpy has a cool photo from a Congressional baseball game from 1918.
  • Carli Davidson, the photographer who made the dog photo book Shake, has a new book out called Shake Puppies. Cue the squee!
  • A satellite photograph of New Zealand shows an almost perfectly circular park.
  • A new portfolio site was launched in the U.K. to help photographers protect their copyright.
  • An awesome AP photo of 2,000 sheep being led through the streets of Madrid.
  • Point Defiance zoo in Tacoma, Washington has new photos of its rare Sumatran tiger cub triplets. Their three-week-old ears will slay you.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Alejandro Almaraz, Brendan Marris, Bryan Adams, Carli Davidson, caves, composite images, Congressional baseball, copyright, dogs, Doug Menuez, Paris, sheep, Silicon Valley, Tatiana Gulenkina, teddy bears, tiger, time lapse, Walter Pickering, wounded soldiers, Yann Muncy

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