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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.

Friday Links: October 24, 2014

October 24, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

You have one more week to see our Exposed DC / InstantDC Fall Review at the Washington School of photography, closing October 31. There are tons of photography-related events going on this weekend, so head to our calendar to find them all. Got an event to add? Let us know. Sign up for our newsletter to keep apprised of upcoming Exposed events (psst: save the date for our next happy hour on Wednesday, November 5, and keep your eyes out for some big fall events we’re working on).

Local photographer Joshua Cogan’s work with D.C. boxer Dusty Hernandez-Harrison is highlighted in the Washingtonian this week.
You can now follow the Women Photojournalists of Washington on Instagram.
Speaking of the WPOW, one of their members and National Geographic photo editor Mallory Benedict was featured on Career Contessa this week.
“How does one give dignity to the image of a woman who has died and is lying on the ground, unattended, uncovered and alone as people walk by or gaze from a distance? But I believe that the world must see the horrible and dehumanizing effects of Ebola. The story must be told; so one moves around with tender care, gingerly, without extreme intrusion.” Story and photos from Washington Post photographer Michel du Cille.
The Washington School of Photography has office space available for photographers.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco opened a show this week featuring the work of Arnold Newman. “The show is the first major exhibition since Newman’s death, and features well-known portraits, as well as early street photography, architectural and still life works.”
Washington birth photographer Emily Goodstein shares what it takes to be part of one of the most intimate moments possible.
Famed Swiss photographer and member of Magnum Photos, René Burri passed away this week at the age of 81. The post on the Magnum Blog contains links to his images.
Images from the winners of the 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, include overall winner Michael Nichols.
And finally, another amazing tiger photo from Steve Winter.

Friday Links: October 17, 2014

October 17, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

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Here’s some helpful video on what not to do with a GoPro and a drone.
Washingtonian has images from the 1927 tornado that touched down in D.C.
“If you were like many kids, you probably spent much of your childhood in a hybrid world where reality and imagination fused into an indistinguishable whole.” Photographer Thomas Dagg pays homage to childhood by inserting Star Wars into real world snapshots.
Portraits by Dmitri Kessel of Henri Matisse working.
PhotoPhilanthropy has opened up their 2014 Activist Awards. “We invite all professional and emerging photographers who have collaborated with a nonprofit organization on a photographic project to participate in the 6th annual awards.”
Joseph Sywenkyj has been awarded this year’s W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his long-term project on family life in Ukraine
AP photos of cemetery overcrowding across the globe.
“The most disappointing thing is that the students at Syracuse have missed that moment to learn about the Ebola crisis, using someone who has been on the ground and seen it up close. But they chose to pander to hysteria.” Pulitzer prize-winning Washington Post photojournalist Michel du Cille was disinvited to a Syracuse University journalism workshop because he had been to Liberia 21 days ago.
The jaw dropping photos by the 2014 Photo Nightscape Winners.
Because of Iran’s strict censorship rules on most art forms, artists in Tehran have gone underground to pursue their passions.
Photographer Jonny Joo has been photographing abandoned farm homes in Ohio, and they are Halloween season spooky.
Pamela Littky’s new book, Vacancy, documents the tight-knit communities of Baker, California and Beatty, Nevada, each of which claims to be the gateway to Death Valley.
Debi Cornwall wanted to see how prisoners and military guards lived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She discovered a surreal “paradise” marked by contrast and contradictions.
And finally, your photo of Putin with a tiger cub, which, well, might now be raiding China for chickens?

Friday Links: September 26, 2014

September 26, 2014 By James Calder

Georgetown Waterfront (Blue) by His Noodly Appendage

The Exposed DC / InstantDC Fall Review, featuring winning images by 45 local photographers, opens next Friday, October 3. Will we see you there? Tune in next Tuesday when we’ll announce the prize winners!

The U.S. Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, almost certainly a constitutional violation.
VICE presents its first photo critique show featuring Bruce Gilden “telling up-and-coming photographers if their work is transcendent, total crap, or somewhere in-between”.
So wrong, and yet so good. Iconic photo portraits recreated with John Malkovich as the subject.
iluvsturgis by Lacey Criswell and Amanda Hankerson explores love and commitment at the notorious Sturgis Motorcycle Rally held annually in Sturgis, South Dakota.
A photographer uses all eight generations of iPhones to take the same picture and compare quality.
This street artist takes photos of people tearing down his art, turns them into posters and slaps them up in place of the art they took down.
Seen on friend-of-Exposed Andrew Wiseman’s blog New Columbia Heights: Whoa: Google Street View cameras go into Red Derby, Looking Glass, Red Rocks.
Toronto-based Meera Sethi’s multimedia art project showcases the often-overlooked “Aunty” couture.
Austrian photographer Reiner Riedler photographs famous film reels, exploring the relationship between the cinematic object and the cinematic experience in his series “The Unseen Seen.”
Dubai photographer Richard Allenby-Pratt captures the impact of development on the desert.
Take a good look at this rare Malayan tiger – it may be one of your last.

Friday Links

August 15, 2014 By James Calder

We hope you’ve been paying attention to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by police last Saturday. There are tons of photos on Twitter, including the police using tear gas on largely-peaceful protestors and an Al Jazeera tv crew (before taking down their equipment) on Wednesday. That same night, police closed a McDonald’s and ushered out all these “dangerous criminals” (they also arrested two reporters, including Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post). The New York Times put together the photos on all our minds, those from Ferguson in 2014 and the Civil Rights Movement half a century ago. Here at home, Howard University students posed for a powerful photo to protest Brown’s killing. Lastly, it’s always worth a reminder, because the authorities often forget: “Citizens have the right to take pictures of anything in plain view in a public space, including police officers and federal buildings.”
“It’s as though we’ve become unsure of our ability to feel, and need to outsource moments to a team, in the hope that collective approval will stand in for meaning.” A Boston Globe op-ed asks if we’re too busy sharing moments to truly experience them.
Photographer Christina De Middel takes spam email she’s received and creates beautifully composed, fictitious portraits of the imaginary senders.
David Waldorf works in both the commercial and fine art worlds, but his cinematic photographs of trailer park residents in Sonoma, California are striking and unsettling in their detail.
“If we’re big enough to fight a war, we should be big enough to look at it.” The fascinating story of The War Photo No One Would Publish.
A survey of photographers who’ve recently had photo books published, listing details of the deals they struck with their respective publishers.
First person account by fashion photographer Rachel Scroggins of a photo she made that ended up being broadly published with neither credit nor permission. Alternative description: Groundhog Day.
Guys on Instagram are now doing their own #MakeupTransformation photos, and it’s priceless.
Crazy images of waves caused by a tidal bore that have created a popular spectator sport in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. These photos make us want to bathe in some…different water, pronto.
The Capital Weather Gang blogged: “Is HDR photography enhancing or defiling how we see weather and nature?“
In 1974, Daniel Sorine photographed a couple of mimes performing in Central Park, only to discover 35 years later that he had captured a then little-known Robin Williams on film.
“The people Stanton photographs are reduced to whatever decontextualized sentence or three he chooses to use along with their photo.” A critique of the popular Humans of New York series.
Lida Moser passed away this week just before her 94th birthday. The highly acclaimed photographer lived in Rockville, Maryland and really hated being pigeonholed.
Two of the women in Garry Winogrand’s iconic 1964 photograph “World’s Fair, New York City” recollect that summer afternoon.
Think you’ve seen some cool cat photos on the interwebs? You ain’t seen nothing ’til you’ve seen Vincent J. Musi’s shots for National Geographic.