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Swimming at Blue Hole During Look3

June 21, 2015 By Heather Goss

It’s become a bit of a tradition to grab your closest photographer friends and make the short trip to Charlottesville for the Look3 festival. They don’t hold it every year, but it’s definitely worth going at least once, for the famous photographer sightings (James Natchwey strolled by me in a little shop the year I went), the often phenomenal exhibits, and actually, just hanging around the beautiful countryside surrounding UVa.

This year Chris Suspect headed down to the festival with some of our favorite local photogs, and he sent us this slideshow of their downtime swimming at Blue Hole. Photos by Suspect, Tatiana Gulenkina, Louisa Marie Summer, John Ulaszek, Kate Warren, and Bill Bramble. We could use one of those swimming holes in D.C. right about now.

Friday Links: November 7, 2014

November 7, 2014 By James Calder

This Sunday from 2-4 p.m., join us at the opening reception for the extended run of our InstantDC Fall Review show! The new venue for these beautiful photographs is BloomBars in Columbia Heights. Keep your eyes peeled for exciting news in the coming days about a new series of Exposed-sponsored photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC! While you’re salivating, here are this week’s links:

FotoWeekDC kicks off tonight. Wondering what to pick from the overwhelming array of events and shows? Check our handy-dandy guide for recommendations.
Alejandro Almaraz composites images of world leaders to examine how different nations view power.
Bryan Adams’ heart-stopping images of wounded British soldiers.
WIRED interviews Tatiana Gulenkina, one of our InstantDC Fall Review show selections.
In case you needed a new idea for your nightmares: images of inside out teddy bears.
Intimate images from the Golden Age of Silicon Valley from this book by photographer Doug Menuez.
“I like the negotiation of street photography, which depends on quickly reading people, on trying to understand their house, their ark, their things, with only the slightest of visual clues.”
Avid underworld explorer and photographer Brendan Marris has compiled iconic shots of the vast cave systems in the U.K.
From outrageous uniforms to shoulder calluses: photographs of life in a marching band by Walter Pickering.
A mesmerizing time lapse video of Paris by Yann Muncy.
Shorpy has a cool photo from a Congressional baseball game from 1918.
Carli Davidson, the photographer who made the dog photo book Shake, has a new book out called Shake Puppies. Cue the squee!
A satellite photograph of New Zealand shows an almost perfectly circular park.
A new portfolio site was launched in the U.K. to help photographers protect their copyright.
An awesome AP photo of 2,000 sheep being led through the streets of Madrid.
Point Defiance zoo in Tacoma, Washington has new photos of its rare Sumatran tiger cub triplets. Their three-week-old ears will slay you.

How Was This Year’s FotoWeekDC Festival?

November 14, 2013 By Heather Goss

FotoWeekDC just closed its sixth annual international photography festival last weekend. Like any large event that tries to be inclusive of an entire community, it has both lovers and haters. One common complaint – that it didn’t focus enough on local photography – was addressed this year with FotoNOMA, which hosted work from a number of D.C. groups like InstantDC and the STRATA Collective. No one can get to all the exhibits, lectures, and workshops that FotoWeekDC offers each year, so we asked some of you what your favorite – and least favorite – parts were:

Jeff Norman:

I loved the whole FotoNOMA exhibition, but I think the women from WPOW had many strong images the invoked a lot emotion. And the Private Moon in America series from photographer Leonid Tishkov was brilliant! I also loved the images from the photographers from Strata Collective.

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