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Friday Links: November 13, 2015

November 13, 2015 By Heather Goss

You can still sign up to be on the waitlist for our four awesome free photography classes next week. Thanks to Knowledge Commons DC for partnering us to offer these fun sessions. We’ll let you know when our next one starts!

Carson Davis Brown creates works of art in big box stores without getting permission, photographs the results, and then leaves them “to be experienced by passersby and ultimately eroded by the locations staff.”
A photographer was standing on Bombay Beach in California when the mysterious flame (which turned out to be a Navy missile test) lit up the sky last Saturday night.
Life inside America’s secret nuclear past. Pictures of Oak Ridge, Tennessee show what it was like to live in a town built to accommodate the workers who helped create the nuclear bomb.
For the Kayaw people of the remote village of Htay Kho – and millions from other ethnic groups that pepper Myanmar’s fringes – the November 8 general election is about more than just a fragile peace process.
“Meet face to face with the talented people who make Artomatic shine.” This Saturday from 7-10pm is Artists Night at Artomatic.
In a remote corner of the Russian Urals region of Sverdlovsk, tiny villages are shadows of their former selves. For the few local residents, a narrow-gauge railway is their lifeline.
Mei Xiang watched as her cub, Bei Bei, took his first wobbly steps on Monday. [Video]
Her name is “Grizzly 399,” she’s 19 years old, weighs 400 pounds and she’ll soon be slumbering for five months as she hibernates in the mountains of northwest Wyoming. Her many human fans will be anxiously awaiting her reappearance.

Friday Links: April 24, 2015

April 24, 2015 By James Calder

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This year’s Washington Post Squirrel Week Photo Contest was won by Exposed regular and animal photographer extraordinaire, Angela Napili. Bravo Angela!
Excellent photography non-profit Critical Exposure has launched a Kickstarter to create a mobile digital gallery that will showcase social justice photography created by D.C. youth.
Capital Weather Gang highlighted some striking photos of Monday’s huge lightning storm. Kevin Ambrose stacked 42 different lightning shots into one image that seems to portray the end of days for D.C., while Exposed alum Gary Silverstein used the lightning to frame the Iwo Jima memorial beautifully.
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch photography staff won the Breaking News Photography award for their “powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO”, while New York Times freelancer Daniel Berehulak took Feature Photography “for his gripping, courageous photographs of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”
With this week’s presentation of the World Press photo awards, the New York Times Lens blog presents a conversation with photographers, curators and photo editors on the struggle between photojournalistic ethics and evolving visual storytelling strategies.
The Hubble Space Telescope turned 25 this week. NASA celebrated by releasing a gorgeous image of a 3,000 star cluster. Over at Air & Space magazine, Exposed’s Heather Goss interviewed 10 scientists about the Hubble images they worked with and how each one helped usher in a new age of astronomy. The New York Times also jumped on the bandwagon.
The 27th annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest opened this month with some tremendous prizes up for grabs. Submit your best travel photos in any of four categories, and check back weekly to see galleries of the top entries.
Chile’s Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday without warning. The first imagery to do the rounds was a time-lapse of the eruption. Then came a series of incredible individual photos followed most recently by striking shots of the ash fall.
Davide Monteleone’s “In the Russian East” is a tribute both to Richard Avedon’s “In the American West” and to the lure of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In the remote village of Mawlynnong in northeast India, the Khasi tribe follows a rare tradition of women running the show.
Two friends sent each other selfies every day for a year, and only communicated through those photos (no calls or texts).
Artsy, ad-free social network Ello recently launched its own photography community – @ellophotography
A rare and gorgeous quadruple rainbow was spotted in Long Island.

Friday Links: January 30, 2015

January 30, 2015 By Heather Goss

After this week’s drone incident at the White House, DJI – the drone’s manufacturer – has issued a mandatory firmware update disabling the use of their devices in D.C.’s no-fly zone.
Sports Illustrated laid off the rest of its photography staff this week. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
Sometimes the best moments of Saturday Night Live are the host portrait bumpers. Mary Ellen Matthews, the photographer who’s been doing them since 1999, talks about her work.
Vantage recently posted the second in a two-part interview with Karen Mullarky, “one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time.” Part 1, Part 2.
“I tried to imagine my life as a mother. I couldn’t think of a single female war photographer who had a stable relationship, much less a husband or a baby.” The New York Times published an excerpt by photojournalist Lynsey Addario from her book “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War,” available February 5.
Remote cameras caught a rare glimpse of a Sierra Nevada red fox in Yosemite National Park.
Photographer Carrie Schneider’s response to the lack of women in our literary canon.
Photographer Jim Magnan followed professional rally driver Ken Block kick up all the dust in southern Utah.
This gallery of Supermarket Spaceships shows life-size rockets inspired by 1950s TV-shows that used to tour the country to advertise bread and meat products.
While their images of the recent snowstorm had been solicited by the New York Times, Instagrammers only discovered their front-page placement by chance.
Meanwhile, here are some old photographs showing the aftermath of a huge snow storm that hit the eastern seaboard in March of 1888.
PDN Magazine is looking for “emerging photographers” to feature in their next issue. Is one of them you?
Welcome to Oymyakon, Russia – the coldest town on earth. It’s dark for 21 hours a day and, during winter, temperatures average minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit.
Art Shay, now 92 and one of the 20th century’s most prolific photographers, is starting to get the “appreciation from the art world he’s long deserved.”
15-year-old white tiger Omar got a routine medical exam at Wildlife Reserves Singapore; his keepers have trained him to stay calm so the tiger, entering his senior years, won’t have to go through the stress of being sedated.