Thomas Hoepker Archives

Have you signed up for our special Exposed DC sponsored week of free photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC? Most of our classes are waitlisted (you can still sign up and we’ll let you know if a spot opens up) but you can still get a seat to make your own camera obscura next Friday. And be sure to join us for our monthly happy hour — this time with the wonderful KCDC folks — at Iota in Clarendon on Monday, November 17. Find out how you can sign up or get involved with future KCDC sessions, meet the Exposed DC team, or just come have a drink with fellow photography lovers.

This is the last weekend for FotoWeek DC, so be sure to check out our recommendations on what to see. We also have a review of the contest winners written by Caroline Space.
Want tips on how to be a better photo assistant? APA DC is hosting a Photo Assistant workshop next week.
Martin Schoeller discusses a selection of high profile shoots from his new book Portraits, including the story of pro skater Tony Hawk leaping from his kitchen counter at the crack of dawn and Quentin Tarantino apparently blissed out in a sea of doves.
New Zealand freelance photographer Amos Chapple used a drone to photograph the Kremlin. What’s Russian for cojones?
Photos from “Dark Tourism” sites around the world. That ought to bring you down.
Italian “paparazzo” Umberto Pizzi says he photographs to tell stories, not to court celebrities. Alexa Keefe interviewed Pizzi for National Geographic.
From geishas and waterfalls to the Berlin Wall and 9/11: How one photographer captured 60 years of historic images. Thomas Hoepker’s photos are collected in a retrospective called Wanderlust.
The first Hasselblad in space went on the auction block on Thursday. It fetched $275,000!
Speaking of cool space photos, did you see the first ever photo from the surface of a comet?
And finally, add being presented with a white tiger to the list of Presidential perks.

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Don’t forget to register for our initial set of free photography classes through Knowledge Commons DC, including sessions on street photography and street portraits from the accomplished Jim Darling and Gerry Suchy respectively. Stay tuned for a whole new slew of classes coming up in October! And mark your calendars for our Photobook Happy Hour at WeWork Wonder Bread on September 12 from 6 to 8pm. Happy Friday!

Congratulations to STRATA‘s Chris Suspect, whose D.C. hardcore music show images will be among those on display in the Leica Gallery at Photokina in Cologne, Germany.
The APA announced the winners of their 2014 Annual Awards Competition.
Russian Photographer Andrei Stenin was sadly found dead this week in Ukraine.
Oliver Blohm finds out what happens when you put your instant film in the microwave.
The International Space Station got a new 800mm lens, and the photos are pretty great.
Where every dog is a weiner: Photos from the annual Labor Day Weiner Dog Race.
DC Focused is a new blog “Chronicling Life in the District.”
Iceland is erupting, and the photos are so damn cool. It’s also not the only place erupting this week. In case you were wondering what it is like for people living near volcanoes, Eric Lafforgue has been capturing their day to day lives.
“Looking back, working conditions back in the day were a dream. We got great salaries, flew business class and were given the time to do the job right. There were even occasions when the photo editor would say: ‘the images aren’t quite right yet. Travel back there and get some more.’” Interview with long time Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker.
Who do you want to be? Or, more accurately, who could you have been? Czech photographer Dita Pepe takes these musings quite literally, re-imaging (their word) her life in a hundred different scenarios in her series “Self Portraits with Men”
Peng Yangjun has been capturing the beautiful face-kini trend in China.
“Chinese photographer Fan Ho spent the ’50s and ’60s photographing street life in Hong Kong. His work, to be published in his new book “Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir,” reaches back through time and space to connect us to the everyday sights of this bustling metropolis in a way that many of us have never seen before.”
REI is offering local photography classes.
Do you know when you need a model release? The Capital Photography Center breaks it down for you.
It is not the work for which he is most know, but the Met has a large collection of Walker Evan’s locomotive photos.
Indonesian photographer Yudy Sauw’s stunning macro pictures of insects look as though they were taken by a scientist in a lab. Turns out he “likes bugs” and that it’s “just a hobby.”
Photographer Danila Tkachenko won the 2014 World Press Photo contest for his pictures of hermits. Tkachenko spent three years locating and photographing people who live in the wilderness of Russia and Ukraine.
And finally, an Australian Zoo celebrated the first birthday of their two tiger cubs.

Friday Links: November 14, 2014

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