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Friday Links: August 7, 2015

August 7, 2015 By James Calder

its a staircase with a skylight at the top by Jill Slater
its a staircase with a skylight at the top by Jill Slater

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for 6pm Tuesday, August 11 when photographers and photography lovers will gather at Right Proper Brewing for our monthly DC Photography Happy Hour.

  • Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has opened its 3rd annual photo contest. Send them your best military and civilian airplane and spacecraft images and your impressive astrophotography by November 15.
  • Investigative photojournalist Ruben Espinosa was found shot in Mexico City last week. Free speech advocacy group Article 19 told The Guardian that “the killing of Espinosa marked a new level of violence against journalists in Mexico.”
  • National Geographic has announced the winners of its 2015 Traveler Photo Contest.
  • During the almost two decades that Nathan Benn was a staff photographer at National Geographic, he estimates he shot around 1,000 rolls of 35mm film a year. Yet, he probably saw about 10 percent of those photos.
  • After 85 years, Blacks Photography is closing down across Canada. This radio documentary about the company and the people who worked there is excellent. Meanwhile, Lens Rentals Canada is also calling it quits.
  • Last year Washington Post staff photojournalist Jahi Chikwendiu spent several days and nights documenting the scenes of protest and face-offs between law enforcement and local residents in Ferguson, MO after the death of Michael Brown. A year later, Washington Post photojournalist Jabin Botsford retraced Chikwendiu’s steps and photographs to document the many ways the community of Ferguson has changed, and, in some cases, stayed the same.
  • 70 years ago this week the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 of its 350,000 citizens. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Photographer Issei Kato has paired archive images of the ruins with how they look today.
  • Survivors of the atomic bomb attacks in Japan talk about their experiences, and their fears about the government’s plans to reboot the country’s nuclear reactors taken offline after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
  • As a huge and controversial process of redevelopment sweeps across south London’s Brixton neighborhood, photographer Georgios Makkas captures the railway-arch businesses fearing for their future amid potential rent hikes.
  • An ambitious new survey of photography in Cuba aims to challenge long-held notions about how the island has been portrayed.
  • Google and MIT researchers demo an algorithm that lets you take clear photos through reflections. Astonishing.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Air & Space Magazine, atomic bomb, Blacks Photography, Brixton, Cuba, Ferguson, Fukushima, Japan, Nathan Benn, National Geographic, Ruben Espinosa, technology

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.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Adobe, censorship, Chris Suspect, dogs, Don McCullin, Goran Tomasevic, John Ulaszek, links, roundup, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, technology, tiger, war, weekly

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