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Friday Links: December 12, 2014

December 12, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

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Corner by Betsy Law

Come to the closing reception for our InstantDC Fall Review at BloomBars in Columbia Heights this Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. Buy any of these amazing framed images by local photographers for just $150 as a gift for your favorite art lover, or just yourself. Need more ideas for the photographer in your life? Consult our Exposed DC holiday gift guide. And remember to get your photographs of the D.C. area into our 9th annual photo contest before January 7!

  • We start off this week with very sad news, “Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them, died [from an apparent heart attack] Dec. 11 while on assignment for The Post in Liberia. He was 58.” The Post also has a piece about his long career, and the Guardian has a selection of some of his best images.
  • Photojournalist Luke Somers was killed this week by al-Quada militants in Yemen after a failed rescue attempt by U.S. special forces. Some of Somers work can be seen on the Corbis website.
  • One of the most talked about stories this week is the sale of the $6.5 million photography by Peter Lik. But don’t worry, two Guardian columnists are debating if photography is actually art. Yawn.
  • Time Magazine highlights the most popular Department of the Interior Instagram shots from 2014.
  • When soldiers come home from war: “For many, reintegration is coming to terms with those two halves: the veteran and the civilian made anew.” Photos by Devin Mitchell.
  • Photographer Georgine Benvenuto lost the tip of his nose to a drone inside a TGI Fridays.
  • See the ArtDC show Density open tomorrow night in Hyattsville, and Frank Hallum Day’s show at Addison/Ripley Fine Art tonight.
  • So you’d think Baltimore police would have learned from their very public mistakes in depriving photographers (and videographers) of their constitutional rights. Well you’d be very wrong.
  • Vice interviewed Jim Saah about his work covering the early D.C. hardcore music scene.
  • The AP has announced the summer paid internships, including those for photographers.
  • Editors at PDN, Rangefider, and Emerging Photographer selected the work of eleven photographers they believe are rising in the industry.
  • Victoria Sambunaris has spent more than 15 years taking solo road trips across the United States. Armed with her 5-by-7 wooden field camera, she captures the American landscape in an attempt to understand the world and our place in it.
  • It may not be legal, but many pilots are taking photos in the air and posting them to Instagram.
  • The City Paper explores which pieces of art D.C. galleries brought to two Miami Art Fairs, and it includes plenty of photography.
  • Magnum Photos photographer René Burri died in October. This is a short documentary in which he discusses six of his most iconic images.
  • “Legendary photographer Danny Lyon’s photographs of commuters in the ’60s are on view for the first time at a Brooklyn subway station.”
  • And finally, Phevos the tiger is leaving neglectful conditions in Greece for a better life in California.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Danny Lyon, Devin Mitchell, friday links, Georgine Benvenuto, Jim Saah, Luke Somers, Michel du Cille, Peter Lik, Rene Burri, tiger

Friday Links: October 24, 2014

October 24, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

eclipse sunset by Phil Yabut
eclipse sunset by Phil Yabut

You have one more week to see our Exposed DC / InstantDC Fall Review at the Washington School of photography, closing October 31. There are tons of photography-related events going on this weekend, so head to our calendar to find them all. Got an event to add? Let us know. Sign up for our newsletter to keep apprised of upcoming Exposed events (psst: save the date for our next happy hour on Wednesday, November 5, and keep your eyes out for some big fall events we’re working on).

  • Local photographer Joshua Cogan’s work with D.C. boxer Dusty Hernandez-Harrison is highlighted in the Washingtonian this week.
  • You can now follow the Women Photojournalists of Washington on Instagram.
  • Speaking of the WPOW, one of their members and National Geographic photo editor Mallory Benedict was featured on Career Contessa this week.
  • “How does one give dignity to the image of a woman who has died and is lying on the ground, unattended, uncovered and alone as people walk by or gaze from a distance? But I believe that the world must see the horrible and dehumanizing effects of Ebola. The story must be told; so one moves around with tender care, gingerly, without extreme intrusion.” Story and photos from Washington Post photographer Michel du Cille.
  • The Washington School of Photography has office space available for photographers.
  • The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco opened a show this week featuring the work of Arnold Newman. “The show is the first major exhibition since Newman’s death, and features well-known portraits, as well as early street photography, architectural and still life works.”
  • Washington birth photographer Emily Goodstein shares what it takes to be part of one of the most intimate moments possible.
  • Famed Swiss photographer and member of Magnum Photos, René Burri passed away this week at the age of 81. The post on the Magnum Blog contains links to his images.
  • Images from the winners of the 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, include overall winner Michael Nichols.
  • And finally, another amazing tiger photo from Steve Winter.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Emily Goodstein, Joshua Cogan, Magnum Photos, Michael NIchols, Michel du Cille, Rene Burri, Steve Winter, tiger, Women Photojournalists of Washington

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