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Friday Links

October 25, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

From the Super Smog in China, to photographs of women in Nepal, to new species in the Amazon, and finally some happy tiger news, we have a little bit of everything this week. Dive right in.

Pay the photographer. Baltimore photographer and Strobist guru David Hobby experienced an all too common request for free photography. But when that request came from the multi-million dollar National Association of Realtors, he took to his blog to share his thoughts.
Lovely images that a father captured of his young, autistic son.
The photos of the Super Smog is China this week are terrifying. They sadly reminded us of the Edward Burtynsky film Manufactured Landscapes, which you can watch on Netflix.
Photographer Marie Dorigny documented the victimization of women in Nepal. Her work was funded by the International Photo Reporter Festival, which is using a new model of private and community money to sponsor photojournalism.
iPad photography may be gaining more acceptance, but that doesn’t make people look less ridiculous when they are doing it.
In related iPad photography news, Canon has “cut its annual profit forecast and predicted its first drop in sales of models with an interchangeable lens as consumers switch to smartphones to take photos.“
Photographer Lisa Shires, whose work from Cuba we featured in August, has new work on her website from Nicaragua.
The prints, collages, and bleached polaroids of artist Robert Rauschenberg will be at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York at the beginning of November. While the artist may be known for the many types of art he produced, his photography was a central part of his career.
Over 400 new species of animals have been discovered in the Amazon rain forest since 2010. The Guardian has a gallery of pictures of these “new” members of the planet. Look at them now, because their habitat is so endangered, many may not be around long.
Photographer Richard Renaldi and the Aperture Foundation raised money for his series, Touching Strangers. The work has been getting some press attention, for good reason.
Fotoweek DC is right around the corner. Check out our preview of must see exhibits and events.
And finally, to counterbalance last week’s terrible tiger news, the Australia zoo released photos and video of their twin Sumatran Tiger cubs.

Friday Links

October 11, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Photographer Daniel Patrick Lilley is capturing the UK’s disappearing wrestling culture and his work was featured on NPR’s the picture show.
Our friends at the STRATA Collective are offering a street photography workshop. Discounts are available if you sign up before October 20.
Also STRATA related, member Joshua Yospyn was interviewed about his work. “The challenge is to photograph the commonplace in such a way that’s provocative, revealing and being mindful of what’s considered ‘contemporary.’ It often involves taking risks.”
NASA’s satellite images may be inaccessible during the government shutdown, but the European Space Agency has plenty of beautiful images of the Earth.
PDN’s PhotoPlus Expo & Conference is around the corner. This year is the 30th Anniversary, and there will be a large variety of exhibitors this year.
Félix Tournachon, also known as Nadar, was the world’s first aerial photographer and not all of his attempts to be airborne were successful.
Washington School of Photography is offering discounts on four upcoming workshops.
The Copyright office maybe closed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn about how to protect your images. The Columbia Visuals website, from the Columbia Journalism School is a great resource.
Oy. It’s bad enough when a photographer steals an image, but now we have to worry about some big names plagiarizing their social media updates. Life lessons people, don’t steal.
The graytones in this photograph from Dayanita Singh are beautiful.
Photographer Ben Marcin is documenting lone standing row houses that have outlasted their neighbors. The images are best seen while humming “The Cheese Stands Alone.” Well, maybe not, but I can’t stop.
Great interview with Ami Vitale and Elizabeth Dalziel about staying safe while shooting abroad.
A handy map from Casey Trees to find the best places in the District for fall foliage. Plan your photo shoots accordingly.
We can’t get enough of the images that merge the past and the present, and neither can the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. They have merged many historic images with current photos that you can explore in their app as you walk around the city.
And finally, the most important question of the day, do two lions make a tiger? If so, Steve Winter explains how he captured a photo of a Mountain Lion in LA’s Griffith Park. And the most ferocious lion roar you will ever hear.

Friday Links

October 4, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

There are so many great links this week, let’s just jump right in.

Halloween is around the corner, so these images of petrified animals are appropriate and terrifying.
The National Gallery may be closed, but the NPR story on Charles Marville’s photographs of 19th Century Paris is online.
Yosemite National Park celebrated its 123rd birthday this week also by closing because of the government shutdown. In Focus ran a nice collection of historic images from the park.
After the battle between investors has been settled, the affordable art site 20×200 is returning.
The controversy surrounding the winning image of the World Press Photo Awards last year has prompted the photojournalism competition to change their rules about post processing.
Google street view can get personal. A man found a picture of his grandmother hanging out on her front porch, reading the newspaper. His grandmother died not long after that photo was taken.
A new photography blog launched this week, called FUSEVISUAL.
Need to learn how to network with other photographers? Start by being a nice person.
Having your work go viral can be a great experience for some, but a frightening experience for others. Read three very different perspectives on this modern phenomenon.
An unnamed woman in a photo from post-war New York, and what she can teach us about perception, race and class in mid-century and modern American culture.
No matter how much we love them it is a really terrible idea to keep tigers in your house.
Photo software giant Adobe was hacked last month, but revealed it this week. 2.9 million customers had their data exposed.
Edward Burtynsky’s new work is a series called Water, and documents how we are creating our own demise. So it’s light.
On an actual light note, photographer Elliott Erwitt is releasing some of his color work from his back catalog in a book appropriately named Kolor.
Photographer Jordan Matter has followed up his popular Dancers Among Us series with images of Athletes Among Us. No word yet on how many groups may be living among us.
An image of the mass burial of Titanic victims has been (please forgive me) brought back from the dead.
Let’s pretend we are the Daily Show for a minute, because this photo of Ted Cruz from photographer Jason Reed deserves a Moment of Zen.

Plenty of links for your consumption this week. We have tragic photos from the massacre in Kenya, a photographer named a genius, a Leica store contest, animals loving humans, animals behaving like humans, and humans behaving like animals.

Tyler Hicks of the New York Times entered the Westgate Mall in Nairobi after the shooting started last week. His interview and incredibly sad and terrifying images from that day are on the Times’ Lens blog. Warning, some of the images are graphic.
“I don’t think of myself as a female photojournalist. I’m a photojournalist… an individual. Part of what I bring to the table is how I interact with my subjects and obviously being a woman may impact people’s responses to me.” Women Photojournalists of Washington President, Jacquelyn Martin’s interview on the NPPA blog.
Fascinating animal photos from Mary Ellen Mark, they are part of a book that will be coming out next spring.
The Washington, D.C. Leica store has announced a monthly photo contest, so if you shoot with a Leica go join their flickr pool. I’m hoping the Leica fairy brings me an M9.
You can be a photography genius. Carrie Mae Weems has spent her long career exploring class, racism, gender roles and sexism. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship this week.
When you are a grumpy old baseball fan you don’t care why someone is getting in the way of your view, you just want them to move. You may even go to great lengths, like flipping the bird in someone’s proposal photo.
Exposed HQ is buzzing with the news that Steve Winters will be speaking at National Geographic in November to share images from his new book Tigers Forever. #Tigers4EVA
If you are heading to Charlottesville, the Fralin Museum of Art at UVA is hosting two landscape photography exhibits. One is original work of Ansel Adams, the other is work from contemporary landscape photographers.
Isn’t this part of the photographer ten commandments? Thou shall not steal another photographer’s photo and enter it in a contest. Yes, it is, right after thou shall not use HDR.
The D.C. State Fair has announced the finalists in their photography contest. Winners will be announced at the fair tomorrow.
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners have been announced. The images are beautiful, and a sad reminder that light pollution is taking away the night sky for those of us living in urban areas.
And finally, historic photographs of animals doing funny things, including a chimp feeding a baby.

Gaston Lacombe’s Captive

September 26, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Not all zoos are created equal. Admiring beautiful creatures from the animal kingdom can come at a painful cost to many animals in captivity. D.C. based photographer Gaston Lacombe has traveled to 21 zoos on five continents to put together a body of work detailing the sad, horrible conditions for many animals that are Captive.

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