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Friday Links: September 26, 2014

September 26, 2014 By James Calder

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.

Friday Links

September 20, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Our links this week include images from the world under a microscope, the raising of the Costa Concordia, and two examples of old becoming new again.

One incredibly sad image from the Navy Yard tragedy this week spread quickly on social media. First it was deemed related to the shooting, then it was discredited, and finally it has been shown to be one of the victims of the horrible tragedy.
The world is really creepy at the microscopic level and these photos can show you just how much. Steel and shark skin look very tough, and marijuana appears exactly like you would imagine.
National Geographic launched a new photo blog this week called PROOF. If this collaborative video interview with 44 photographers is any indication, there will be a lot to look forward to on the new blog.
If you’ve ever wondered about the history of your neighborhood, the reality is that sometimes you may not want to know. Photographer and historian Marc Hermann has taken crime scene images from the NY Daily news archive and merged them with photographs of the locations as they are now. Warning, there are very graphic images on this link.
What is old is still new. Photographer Martin Parr has a new book out, but it is loaded with images from his early career in rural England.
The Costa Concordia was finally raised this week, and the images of the 19-hour ordeal are fascinating.
“The tiger shares 96% of its genes with the house cat.” Cuddling with your kitten may never be the same.

Friday Links

September 13, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

9th St NW by Noe Todorovich — “9th St NW” by Noe Todorovich

A frog aiming for the moon, famous photographs and the way their prints started out before manipulation, photos of the massive flooding in Colorado, and wonderful events happening around town and more, are all ready for your Friday Link digestion.

We have to start off the links this week with a tribute to the frog that has gone where no frog has gone before. Perhaps Kermit didn’t want Miss Piggy and the rest of the Pigs in Space to be there alone. RIP little Rocket Frog.
“No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.” Can you trust anything you see in a photograph?
While not a photography exhibit, this installation from James Turrell can teach photographers a thing or two about the way color and light react with one another.
If you ever thought that images were not manipulated in the days of film, think again. These notes on the prints from Magnum’s master printer Pablo Inirio show the lengths he went to to make images shine. Handy tip: you can add notes like that to an image with a Photoshop layer, ensuring you make all the adjustments you need.
The Denver Post shared a large collection of photographs showing the damage from flooding in areas Colorado.
Some great events coming up this month. The Washington School of photography is hosting a used equipment sale on the 21st. Photographer Sandesh Kadur is sharing his work from the Himalayas with the International League of Conservation Photographers on the 25th. Former Washington Post photographer Andrea Bruce will be speaking at the Corcoran on the 26th. These events, and many other photography-related happenings can be found on our Calendar page.
Film or digital? You don’t have to pick just one. One photographer is forced to rethink the way she shoots after damaging her digital camera, and the results surprised her.
Don Bartletti made beautiful shots of an experimental airship called the Aeroscraft. We hope this ends better than the Hindenburg.
The Banham Zoo recently named their two tiger cubs, and the pictures are just as adorable as you would imagine.

Friday Links

September 6, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

"Ag Fair" by Chris McDaniel — “Ag Fair” by Chris McDaniel

It may have been a short work week, but we have lots of great links for you today. We have the work of two war photographers, discounted Adobe products, exploration of a Virginia island by a pair of local photographers, technological photography advances from the early 1900’s, and a possible step backwards technologically. We will let you decide that one.

Famed war photographer Don McCullin shared some of his thoughts and images with The Telegraph.
You will never get this reaction with via instant replay. Probably one of the funniest foul ball photos of all time.
Adobe announced a discounted introduction to their new Creative Cloud for photographers for only $9.99 per month. Users who buy in before the end of the year will be able to lock in that price.
Kodak is officially no longer a consumer photography company. We imagine Paul Simon is crying in a corner somewhere with his last box of Kodachrome.
The view inside the Maryland Statehouse dome is rarely seen by the public, so a Baltimore Sun photographer documented it for everyone’s benefit.
The Washington Post shared the story of another war photographer, Goran Tomasevic, about his recent work in Syria.
In Focus has a collection of the winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest. This snowboarding photo particularly caught our attention, but they are all jaw dropping.
Guns and Fine Art Dog Photography. With a title like that, who needs an explanation.
Do you rent photo equipment from Calumet? If so, you can take an image of your gear in action, share it on Instagram, and possibly win $250 in free rental gear.
Ghosts of DC has a photo of Blagden Alley from 1923. The alley is located behind the current location of Long View Gallery, where we have held our Exposed photo exhibit for the last few years.
A nice collection of images from regular contributors John Ulaszek and Chris Suspect of Tangier Island, VA.
No kids, this is not a joke. Someone is trying to fund a project that would make a smartphone photo enlarger. No comment.
Interested in real technological advancement? Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was making color images of the Russian Empire one hundred years ago.
If you don’t want to be seen looking like the village idiot, don’t smile like the village idiot. In what is being called censorship, Agence France Presse killed a photo of French President Francois Hollande making a silly face to French schoolchildren.
Ayu, a two year old Sumatran tiger has returned to her home at a zoo in Indonesia after surviving a poisoning attack. Another tiger and two lions were not as lucky, and died from the poisoning.

Friday Links

August 16, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Photo by Pablo Raw — “Brooklyn, NY” by Pablo Raw

This week we have a gallery call for local photographers, a beautiful piece on a South African dance studio, and some thought provoking images of violence and hate.

Honfluer Gallery placed out a call for artists to create a photography exhibit in the downtown offices of a law firm. They are looking for “Photographers who currently live in DC, VA, MD. All levels of photographers are eligible to apply. Photographers who have limited exhibition experience are especially encouraged to apply.”
Positive Exposures, who who we interviewed in June, released their final work for Dance For All. Go watch the multimedia piece on their blog, it is worth your time.
Brilliant recycled Onion piece about a teenager getting into photography. I hope there were lots of brick walls and train tracks on that roll.
Photographer Anthony Karen earned the trust of members of the KKK and created a moving photo series. You can read his interview with FotoEvidence or download his book made for the iPad in the iTunes store.
In other weird photo KKK news, the city of Tulsa kept a street name the same, but changed it from honoring a Klan member to honoring photographer Matthew Brady.
A Reuters photographer was shot in the foot this week covering the events in Cairo.
Freelance photographer Mosa’ab Elshamy shared his very disturbing images from the aftermath of the violence in Egypt. Warning that these images may not be suitable for everyone.
In big cat news, Saturn has a tiger moon.
The Massachusetts State Police Photographer who released the photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture is back at work after a suspension.