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Friday Links: April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015 By Heather Goss

A photo posted by Messay (@streetamatic) on Apr 16, 2015 at 9:51pm PDT

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  • Don’t get out of the Jeep on safari, even if you might get a great photo.
  • LIFE Magazine’s photo essay of a working mother in the 1950s.
  • Alison Nastasi had published a compilation of photos of famous artists and their cats.
  • “Through the African American Lens,” culled from a Smithsonian collection, shows how photography — and black photographers — reshaped a people’s image.
  • NY family loses legal battle against photographer who secretly shot them through the windows of their apartment and then put them in an exhibit.
  • For three years, photographer Michael Soluri had exclusive access to the astronaut crew, labor force and tools of the shuttle mission that saved and extended the life of the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • These photos could be better, but the idea and subjects here are interesting: Where did John Wilkes Booth run after he shot Lincoln? Nate Larson shows in his series “Escape Routes” that the path Booth took is a mix of truck stops, suburbs, highways, and back roads.
  • The Atlantic’s CityLab writes about citizens’ rights to photograph and videotape the police, discussing some of the same cases covered in this National Press Club panel with local officials we reported on in 2013.
  • “When I photograph my subjects, I do not set out to construct a narrative, though each photograph ends up marking moments and landmarks from my life.” A photo essay by Texan photographer Armando Alvarez.
  • Local Craigslist ad seeks mustachioed individual to pose with turtles. I hope this is real, and that we get to see the resulting images.
  • Pete Souza tweets that this is last term in the White House.
  • It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Grants up to $10,000 are up for grabs.
  • Imagine yourself decidedly out of town with these Icelandic mountain peaks in blue by Andy Lee.
  • Sony and the Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand trained the world’s first Octographer because they’re good with animals and cameras but now how words work, I guess.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: african-american photographers, cats, Hubble, Iceland, Lincoln, lions, octopus, pete souza, Photographer's Rights, police, privacy, safari, Smithsonian, space, turtles

Friday Links: February 13, 2015

February 13, 2015 By Heather Goss

Instant Vintage by Diriki Rice
Instant Vintage by Diriki Rice

Tickets are on sale now for the opening night of our huge 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show! Join us for two floors of D.C. photography, a first look at Capital Fringe HQ, and tasty brews from Bluejacket. See you on March 12!

  • Take note Fairfax County – St. Louis County parks department drops its photography permit requirement.
  • Chris Suspect has announced a second edition of his photobook “Suspect Device” which features images from more than 30 years of D.C.’s hardcore music scene.
  • The Washington Post’s excellent In Sight photo blog has launched Off the Grid – “a new weekly feature spotlighting the work of photographers who document lifestyles a little further and farther afield from the bustle and chaos of modern civilization.” Their first feature: preserving the tradition of reindeer herding in Scandinavia’s Sami culture. You can submit your series for consideration by emailing insight@washpost.com.
  • The Columbus Museum of Art is hosting what may be the largest mobile photo exhibition in a major museum in United States history.
  • Dina Livotsky photographed fashion week events in London, Paris, and New York on assignment. Her mission: Photograph fashion week like it’s never been photographed before.
  • Puerto Rico has the highest prevalence of albinism and HPS in the world. Photographer Adriana Monsalve tries to dispel misconceptions about sufferers in her beautiful series “Clear As Black.”
  • Congrats to Exposed DC alum Brett Davis, this month’s Oskar Barnack Wall winner at the Leica Store DC.
  • Unless you’re a photography buff, you probably have no idea what the people behind some of the most famous photos in the world actually look like. Tim Mantoani, however, aims to fix all that.
  • Mads Nissen’s photograph of two Russian gay men embracing was named the World Press Photo of the Year for 2014. WPP says it disqualifies 20% of its finalists for being manipulated.
  • Sand grains are beautiful.
  • An American scientist is helping the endangered Siberian tiger make a comeback; Smithsonian Magazine’s February cover story features a gorgeous snowy tiger portrait.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Adriana Monsalve, brett davis, Chris Suspect, fashion week, Mads Nissen, mobile photography, Oskar Barnack Wall, Permits, Photographer's Rights, sand grains, tiger, Tim Mantoani, World Press Photo

Friday Links: November 21, 2014

November 21, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

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U & 14th Sts., NW, Washington, D.C. by Chris Suspect
  • A Navy veteran in Missouri said he was fired from his job and called a terrorist for posting pictures to Facebook of Homeland Security vehicles amassing near Ferguson.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released a vast archive of 400,000 (mostly) hi-resolution digital images that you can download and use for non-commercial purposes.
  • Exposed winner Victoria Pickering will have one of her images on display in Times Square.
  • Photographer Bieke Depoorter has been asking strangers if she can spend the night in their homes. “She’s interested in building a relationship, however brief, and learning about the people she’s staying with… If she finds herself trying to make a good picture instead of experiencing and embracing the moment, she stops.”
  • The sale may have ended, but the photos from the Magnum archive are still great.
  • Julia Christe took awesome photos of many dogs and one cat flying mid-jump. The expression on the face of the boxer is priceless.
  • The smog in Beijing is really, really bad and there are photos to prove it. “Zou Yi has been taking photos of the Beijing sky every day and uploading them to his personal Weibo account.“
  • A short but interesting photo essay by photographer Phil Moore of what it’s like to live at the base of Nyiragongo, DR Congo’s very deadly volcano.
  • Before there was a subdivision there was a farm. Photos by Scott Strazzante, who spent 20 years documenting the transition from farm to ticky tacky.
  • Scientists have created artificial intelligence software able to recognize the content of photos and videos with such accuracy that it can sometimes mimic humans.
  • In case you didn’t hear, there was a lot of snow in Buffalo this week. A lot.
  • Remember way, way back in 2007 when Exposed DC (then DCist Exposed!) held the very first annual photography show at Warehouse? Owners Molly and Paul Ruppert are inviting everyone who’s exhibited there over the years to toast a final goodbye to the venue on December 6. (The art gallery has been closed for a few years, but now the Warehouse Theater and Passenger are joining it.)
  • And finally, there was a large cat roaming near Disneyland Paris this week that turned out not to be a tiger. No word yet on if it was a Tigger.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Beijing smog, Bieke Depoorter, Buffalo snow, friday links, Julia Christe, Magnum sale, MOMA, Phil Moore, Photographer's Rights, Scott Strazzante, tiger, Victoria Pickering, Warehouse

Friday Links: September 26, 2014

September 26, 2014 By James Calder

Georgetown Waterfront (Blue) by His Noodly Appendage
Georgetown Waterfront (Blue) by His Noodly Appendage

The Exposed DC / InstantDC Fall Review, featuring winning images by 45 local photographers, opens next Friday, October 3. Will we see you there? Tune in next Tuesday when we’ll announce the prize winners!

  • The U.S. Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, almost certainly a constitutional violation.
  • VICE presents its first photo critique show featuring Bruce Gilden “telling up-and-coming photographers if their work is transcendent, total crap, or somewhere in-between”.
  • So wrong, and yet so good. Iconic photo portraits recreated with John Malkovich as the subject.
  • iluvsturgis by Lacey Criswell and Amanda Hankerson explores love and commitment at the notorious Sturgis Motorcycle Rally held annually in Sturgis, South Dakota.
  • A photographer uses all eight generations of iPhones to take the same picture and compare quality.
  • This street artist takes photos of people tearing down his art, turns them into posters and slaps them up in place of the art they took down.
  • Seen on friend-of-Exposed Andrew Wiseman’s blog New Columbia Heights: Whoa: Google Street View cameras go into Red Derby, Looking Glass, Red Rocks.
  • Toronto-based Meera Sethi’s multimedia art project showcases the often-overlooked “Aunty” couture.
  • Austrian photographer Reiner Riedler photographs famous film reels, exploring the relationship between the cinematic object and the cinematic experience in his series “The Unseen Seen.”
  • Dubai photographer Richard Allenby-Pratt captures the impact of development on the desert.
  • Take a good look at this rare Malayan tiger – it may be one of your last.

 

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Amanda Hankderson, aunty, Bruce Gilden, desert, film reels, first amendment, friday links, Google Street View, iPhone, Lacey Criswell, Malayan tiger, Meera Sethi, motorcycle weddings, Photographer's Rights, Reiner Riedler, Richard Allenby-Pratt, roundup, street art, Sturgis, tiger, US Forest Service, VICE

Friday Links

July 25, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Let 'Em Fly! by Jano Silva
Let ‘Em Fly! by Jano Silva

Happy Friday y’all! Ready for links? Here goes: Frank Underwood as photographer, BuzzFeed reinvents the photographer’s rights wheel, controversy over photoshoot of poor people, and granting prisoners a photographic wish.

  • Ansel Adams wasn’t the only early photographer to explore Yosemite. Carleton Watkins also photographed the area in the late 1800’s.
  • The documentary work by Brenda Ann Kenneally of people living in poverty in Troy, NY caused a barrage of negative internet comments after it was featured in Slate. The New York Times has a good breakdown of the controversy.
  • This week is the 45th anniversary of the moon landing, so check out some of these rare photos of the Apollo 11 mission.
  • The New York Daily News laid off 17 journalists this week, including five photographers.
  • Oh Buzzfeed, this is a tale as old as time. Welcome to D.C., where security guards at Federal buildings enforce rules that don’t exist. “Which ugly Federal building are you?” quiz coming soon.
  • Border Patrol agents hold boy scouts at gunpoint for taking a picture of them. “The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison,” Fox was quoted as saying.
  • A D.C. couple had their first photo as an engaged couple taken by Frank Underwood.
  • The Afghan police officer who killed AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus got the death penalty.
  • Photographer Mark Strandquist asked hundreds of prisoners a straightforward question — if your cell could look out on one scene, what would it be?
  • “He noticed that Chinese customers would often make a day out of it — bringing their tea and snacks, getting some shopping done and then treating themselves to a nice nap.” Kevin Frayer documents the not uncommon practice of IKEA shoppers in China taking naps in display rooms.
  • Wired goes “On the Prowl With Instagram’s Ultimate Street Photographer” Daniel Arnold.
  • Queen Photobombs Hockey Player’s Selfie. Enough said.
  • And finally, CityLab shares a video about the National Wildlife Property Repository, which houses millions of “products” of the illegal wildlife trade. The property includes an abundance of tigers.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Anja Niedringhaus, Apollo 11, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Carleton Watkins, Daniel Arnold, Frank Underwood, friday links, HRH, Kevin Frayer, Mark Strandquist, photographer, Photographer's Rights, Queen Elizabeth II, tigers

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