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Friday Links: July 8, 2016

July 8, 2016 By exposeddc

You Know Who by brunofish
Photo by brunofish

It’s been a terrible week for the black community and the country in general, with the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minneapolis. A week capped off when snipers shot 12 police officers, killing five, during an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas last night.

There are lots of things going on here, but this is Exposed DC, so let’s talk about cameras. Black people didn’t just start getting shot by police during routine traffic stops this week, or last year. What’s changed is that the public has the ability to make a record of it, to give the deceased a last word in what happened to them. It was back in 1991, when bystanders took video footage of Rodney King being beaten by the Los Angeles police that showed the power that the public’s access to cameras can have. As the Washington Post writes, “it was no coincidence” that Alton Sterling’s shooting was filmed. A group called Stop the Killing has been listening to police scanners for potentially violent interactions and rushing to the scene with cameras in hand. How big would the news of Sterling’s death had been if it had happened in a parking lot empty except for Sterling and the officers? Would you know his name? Diamond Reynolds had to make the agonizing decision to grab her cell phone and start recording on Facebook Live while her boyfriend bled out in the driver’s seat and her daughter watched. She had to, or she knew Castile’s side would not be heard.

Here in the nation’s capital, where federal buildings loom on every corner, photographers are hassled unjustly all the time. We have always advocated that photographers know and speak up for their rights, and it’s not because we need another cool shot of the Washington Monument. It’s because this, this ability to bear witness, is the end-product of what these rights are for.

Photographers: know your rights, and what to do when you’re stopped by police. Speak up when authorities prevent you from filming anyway. Do not vote for legislators who would take this right away from you. Advocate for police cameras. Keep reminding authorities that police cams are good for police too, if their interest is in defending officers who do good work and appropriately disciplining those who don’t. Here’s a U.S. map that shows what laws curbing police violence, including police cams, have been proposed or enacted in your area. D.C. recently implemented one of the best police cam programs in the country. How can we do better? Read Aura Bogado on access to smartphones and media justice. Here are some apps you can use that will restore photos if police make you delete them.

We can do so much to end this. Bearing witness is just the start.

Finally, let’s get to some Friday Links about what else is happening in photography this week.

  • Serenity now: Hear a talk by local photographer Stephen Voss at the Japanese Information and Cultural Center about his images of bonsai trees, along with Jack Sustic, the chief curator of the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, who will be doing a live demonstration. Free, but RSVP.
  • Mark your calendar for some July photography events at the National Museum for Women in the Arts. On Saturday, July 16, learn how to be quick and creative with your smartphone camera at this workshop, for $25. On July 27, join an artist discussion with Tanya Habjouqa about her work featured in the ongoing exhibit, She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, $25.
  • Go see an exhibit by the homeless photographers who work for Street Sense at Hillyer Art Space next Tuesday, July 12, 6:30pm. Free but RSVP here.
  • Next time you pass through the NoMa-Galludet station, stop to view photographs taken by Kevin Sutherland, the 24-year-old stabbed to death on the red line last year.
  • Instagram has become a safe space for people embracing diets and other food-restrictive lifestyles.
  • Parched land. Farmer suicides. Forced migration. Photojournalist Vivek Singh on the drought that’s crippling rural India.
  • Mosha and Motola are fitted for new prosthetic legs at the Asian Elephant Foundation hospital in Thailand.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Photographer's Rights

Friday Links: November 6, 2015

November 6, 2015 By James Calder

Interception by Tony Quinn
Interception by Tony Quinn

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.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Air & Space Magazine, Artomatic, aurora, contests, jetpacks, Miles Ladin, Nat Geo, North Korea, Philippe Halsman, Photographer's Rights, Raymond Waltjen, sheepdogs and penguins, Stephanie Steinkopf, Victoria Crayhon, women photographers, WPOW

Friday Links: August 28, 2015

August 28, 2015 By Heather Goss

Pigs Squared by wainscotte
Pigs Squared by wainscotte

County fair time is my favorite, both for attending and for all the great photo opportunities. Keep ’em coming. Save the date for September 10, our next happy hour, which will be a fire sale of prints leftover from 10 years of Exposed DC photography shows, held at the Leica Store.

  • No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news about the Roanoke, Virginia CBS reporter Alison Parker, and cameraman, videographer, and photographer Adam Ward, who were shot to death by a disgruntled former station employee on Wednesday.
  • Meanwhile, police forced BBC reporters to delete footage and threatened to confiscate their cameras as they covered the Virginia shootings.
  • Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, Carlos Barria used the prints of photos he took in 2005 to find the same locations he documented at the time. Barria overlaid the prints to contrast the inundated New Orleans then with the city today.
  • The Baltimore Sun put together a great photo set about the Cotopaxi eruption in Ecuador.
  • Stunning images of athletes in motion at this year’s IAAF World Championships competition in Beijing.
  • CNNMoney has published Mary Ellen Mark’s last assignment, Picture This: New Orleans, before she died last May.
  • Rudi Meisel was one of the very few West German photographers allowed to cross the Berlin Wall into East Germany. Despite the best efforts of censors, he captured authentic street life in the GDR. A new exhibition reveals that East and West Germans weren’t so different after all.
  • As Gustavo Jononovich documented, the bounty of natural resources in Latin America can sustain a community, but also destroy it through pollution and overdevelopment.
  • Time Magazine pontificates on The Next Revolution in Photography.
  • Diverting your attention from Mei Xiang’s mixed news this week, it turns out baby pandas get even cuter when you put them in baskets.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: beijing, carlos barria, dustavo jonovich, germany, katrina, latin america, mary ellen mark, new orleans, pandas, Photographer's Rights, rudi meisel

Friday Links: June 12, 2015

June 12, 2015 By Heather Goss

Ducks by Victoria Pickering
Ducks by Victoria Pickering
  • 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?

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: albert halaban, Magnum, North Korea, Photographer's Rights, Polaroid, police, roland fischer, storm chasing, sudan, tornados

Friday Links: May 1, 2015

May 1, 2015 By Heather Goss

A Tale of Heads by Diriki Rice
A Tale of Heads by Diriki Rice
  • There are lots of images from the protests and riots over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore, but you can start with, of course, the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore City Paper.
  • A photographer for Reuters was detained and another for the Baltimore City Paper was thrown to the ground by police last Friday.
  • Time magazine used an amateur photographer’s Instagram image for its cover on the Baltimore protests.
  • This short video from Getty Images, shares how photographer, Carleton E.  Watkins saved Yosemite Park.
  • These satellite photos of seaweed farms in South Korea are gorgeous.
  • Thank you photoshop and this guy from Australia who likes cats. Behold: Brides throwing cats.
  • It’s been a rough week for people around the world. The LA Times has images from Nepal, where an earthquake has killed more than 5,000 people.
  • It’s spring, get out of the house! The Funk Parade is a can’t miss for photographers (and anyone else), or bring your camera and the family to celebrations at Glen Echo Park or Heurich House or fire up the action with Mexican wrestlers at the DC Fairgrounds.
  • Forty years ago this week, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the war.
  • Award winning photographer Marcus Bleasdale talks about how photography can affect change.
  • So you know the selfie stick? Well, the “Selfie Arm” takes the concept to a whole new level. A truly disturbing new level.
  • Wired has a photo gallery on the “shrinking community” living at Ummannaq, a remote village in Greenland.
  • Let’s zen out with these photos of color gradients in food by Brittany Wright.
  • Who needs a tiger link? You need a tiger link.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: baltimore, greenland, mexican wrestling, nepal, Photographer's Rights, portfolio, saigon, seaweed, selfie arm, south korea, tigers, yosemite

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