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Friday Links: November 20, 2015

November 20, 2015 By James Calder

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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]

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: April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015 By Heather Goss

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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.

Know Your Rights as a Photographer

November 6, 2013 By Heather Goss

Last Saturday, Baltimore police arrested Noah Scialom, a contributing photographer to the Baltimore City Paper, while they were breaking up a Halloween party. Scialom, as he reports, had identified himself as press and began photographing the incident. He left the house with the other party goers until he reached the sidewalk, and continued to take pictures, when he was roughly taken to the ground and arrested.

It’s a familiar story to anyone who regularly uses a camera in public, and a source of constant tension between police and the press, between the needs of security and the Constitutional rights of citizens. The National Press Club held a discussion in October on the subject as part of their Free Speech Week, inviting photographers, lawyers, and even a representative from the D.C. Metro Police Department to share their thoughts.

So what rights do you have to record in public? While the answer seems straight-forward to most of us (if it’s in the public realm, we can record it), the courts are only just beginning to define the right through rulings. But this first step is great news for photographers. The nation’s founders probably didn’t predict the prevalence of smartphones in 2013, so having defined rules about how the First Amendment applies to modern-day recording devices benefits everybody. [Read more…]