- Save the date for our next session of free photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC this November! Take lessons in food photography, street photography, Holga photography, and photographing airplanes from Gravelly Point. Learn more about it at our next monthly happy hour on November 10. Keep up with all our upcoming events (including the impending 10th anniversary photo contest and exhibition) with our newsletter.
- Artomatic 2015 opens tonight with a huge building full of photography and other art. This year’s location is in Hyattsville, a short walk from the New Carrollton metro stop.
- FotoWeekDC starts November 7. See the whole events calendar here.
- Dog photobombs couple’s engagement shoot in the best way possible: “He’s a show stopper.”
- Before her death at just 22 years old, Francesca Woodman became one of the most seductive and haunting photographers of all time.
- “But [Mayor Bowser’s] first major arts decision, and perhaps the one that will most profoundly affect culture in the District for years to come — is bizarre and unaccountable.”
- Magnum Photos has partnered with UN Women to present images on the 15th anniversary of the UN Security Council resolution that recognized the critical importance of women’s participation in peacemaking and peacebuilding.
- Carlos Barria photographed a person born in each year China’s one-child policy was in existence, from a man born in 1979 to baby Jin Yanxi born in 2014.
- The crazy world of flavorings, colorings, sweetners, preservatives, and thickeners — some of modern America’s favorite foods taken apart in a series of still-life images.
- The Atacama desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth, is awash in pink flowers after crazy El Nino rains.
- There’s a pumpkin in every pot for zoo animals this time of year.
Friday Links: February 6, 2015
Don’t forget to head over to Right Proper Brewing in Shaw this coming Tuesday for our February happy hour/meetup. We hope to see not only the usual Exposed DC crowd, but also our friends from IGDC, APA|DC, ASMPDC, and the Leica Store!
- Tomorrow four D.C. photographers – Clarissa Villondo, Alex Schelldorf, Matthew Brazier and Michael Andrade – will stage the the 9:30 Club’s first pop-up music photography exhibit.
- Photographers are complaining about a little yellow car ruining their photos of the picturesque English village of Bibury.
- Brad Wilson takes studio portraits of wild animals, and here PetaPixel publishes a ton of his owl portraits. And they are intense.
- Andrew Fladeboe will see Brad’s owl portraits and raise you his stunning series about working dogs called “The Shepherd’s Realm.”
- Arlington Arts Center was awarded a grant to operate for the next two years.
- Colossal has a 10-minute documentary about photographer Michael Paul Smith, whose “broad life experiences lead him to the creation of Elgin Park, a fictional 20th century town filled with miniature 1/24th-scale models of cars and buildings. Smith mixes his carefully crafted model sets with die-cut automobiles and real-life backdrops, taking advantage of an optical illusion known as forced perspective.”
- In narcissistic self-cannibalism news, the selfie toaster – eat your own face, on a slice of toast!
- A pilot crashed his plane, killing himself and a passenger, because they were distracted taking selfies in the cockpit.
- The F-35 Lightning II fighter gets ice in its beard during extreme weather testing at a U.S. Air Force laboratory.
- “Last week, Commander Chris Hadfield (of International Space Station fame) tweeted this image, asking what could have caused such strange columns to form in rocks.” So Erik Klemetti answered.
- Nikon will reportedly announce a special version of the D810 full frame DSLR next week that’s designed specifically for astrophotography.
- A look inside the first book illustrated exclusively with photographs. Biologist Anna Atkins used sunprints inside her 1843 book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. Beautiful.
- Photographer Manu Brabo has been embedded in Ukraine covering the conflict in and around Donetsk for several weeks.
- Tiger camera traps in India have captured way fewer than they’d hoped.