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Friday Links

March 14, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Exposed 2014 Photography Show poster by ep_jhu

So you’ve bought your Exposed 2014 opening night tickets, right? Ok, then. Your reward is this week’s allotment of alluring links, including fantastic Snowy Owl research photos, local photographer Jim Darling’s upcoming pop-up studio, and the sad story behind Calumet’s demise:

We learned yesterday that Calumet Photo filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Their website is gone, all their twitter feeds have been deleted, and the short update they wrote on facebook about their closing has also been deleted. Calumet took over three Penn Camera stores in the area after they closed down a few years ago. Peta Pixel has an interview with a former employee which details how bad things had gotten at the retailer.
Just how valuable are your Instagram photos? Daniel Arnold made $15K in one day selling prints of his popular Instagram shots.
A Photo Editor wrote his own guide to photography contests.
The Baltimore Police are at it again. They forced Baltimore Sun photo editor Chris Assaf away from the scene of an office involved shooting. We wrote about another similar incident with Baltimore Police last year.
D.C. area photographer Kristi Odom is headed to Bolivia to photograph the illegal animal trade. She is looking for financial backing on the project, and has almost met her goal.
Photographer Meredith Rizzo has some great images in an NPR story on the snowy owl.
Need a good headshot? Local photographer Jim Darling, whose portraits we profiled last year, is hosting a pop-up portrait studio on 3/22.
D.C. based photographer Mathew Ramsey is getting a lot of attention for his burger porn project. The photos look very tasty.
Combat photographer Stacey Pearsall shared stories about working as an Air Force photographer with Photoshelter.
This week PetaPixel wrote about the work Paulo Ordoveza, or @PicPedant, is doing to expose fake or copyrighted photos posted on twitter. You may remember that we interviewed Ordoveza back in January.
General Colin Powell posted a selfie he took 60 years ago to facebook yesterday. He even managed to call out Ellen in the process.
(e)merge art fair will return for their fourth year to D.C. this fall.
“Permitting photography led to constant tension between those who wanted a clear view for their camera and those who wished to look at the paintings.” To ban or not to ban cameras at museums.
An finally, Nepal celebrated some happy news this week when it marked 365 days without a tiger, rhino or elephant being poached.

Friday Links

March 7, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

We have a long list of links this week including shocking news from Getty Images, a collaboration between Magnum Photos and the Smithsonian, where to get your aura photographed and much, much more.

In news that has shocked many this week, Getty Images announced that they will be making their images free to use. The British Journal of Photography is all over the story, including responses from ASMP and NPPA.
Remember what you looked like in 1987? Karl Baden does. He took a photo of himself every day for the last 27 years.
Dog photo booths are much cooler than people photo booths. Photos by Lynn Terry.
The Northern Lights have been putting on a show in the UK. Some of the images look like scenes from Harry Potter.
The LA Times interviewed veteran National Geographic photographer William Albert Allard.
The going rate for getting your aura photographed seems rather reasonable.
Lenscape and Shifra are two new app online photography magazines.
“My photographs are a more useful first draft than my attempted prose was, a richer archive than the pages of my binders.” Casey Cep explores the relationship between photography and writing.
Do you have $50,000 burning a hole in your pocket? If so, you can buy Andy Warhol’s Polaroid camera.
Learn how Time made the panoramic image atop One World Trade Center.
A compilation list of image libraries owned by the federal government.
“Khalid Mohammed, a photographer for the Associated Press, took a picture 10 years ago of two charred American bodies hanging from a bridge and surrounded by a crowd of cheering Iraqis.” Here’s the impact a single image had on the Iraq War.
At the Paris Exposition in 1900, W.E.B. DuBois presented an exhibit about the history and “present condition” of African Americans. The exhibit had many photographs, and 114 years later we can see them online at the Library of Congress website.
Magnum Photos and the Smithsonian have teamed up for an exhibit called Unintended Journeys. The exhibit “provides a glimpse into the lives of humans displaced by global climate change and some of the most devastating natural disasters in the past decade.”
Are your cell phone camera, DSLR, and point and shoot not enough for you? NPR did a story on a tiny camera that clips on your clothes to record everything you see.
And finally, the Land of the Tiger exhibit opens this weekend at the Jacksonville Zoo.

Friday Links

February 28, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

As February comes to a close we wrap up the week with animals taking over an abandoned home, more photojournalists being laid off, scientists going sci-fi, and someone using a tiger as their drinking buddy. Enjoy!

Finnish photographer Kai Fagerström photographed animals taking over an abandoned house, and the results are beautiful.
Interview with David Burnett about photographing his 10th Olympics.
The apocalypsticle? Some interesting commentary on Politico about the obsession with disaster photos that don’t come with more of the story.
More bad news for photojournalists, the Orlando Sentinel is eliminating their photography staff.
Andrew Whtye documented the extensive travels of a very small person with a specialty, adapted tiny camera.
Robert Shults, an Austin based photographer, portrayed scientists in the lab in the format of a sci-fi B-movie.
The Wall Street Journal asks if the change happening at the Corcoran is a symbol of bad non-profit governance happening at many institutions.
Fighting fair use violations can be difficult, which is why several photography associations are banding together to fight for photographer’s rights in court.
Speaking of photographer’s rights, PDN posted a video for photographers on the first amendment and how to deal with police intimidation.
New website The Image delves deeper into the story behind photos.
The long-awaited Garry Winogrand exhibit opens this weekend at the National Gallery.
A New Jersey moving company changed out the stock photos on their website with “real” photos and has seen a dramatic increase in revenue. Remember this study next time a client wants to buy a $2 photo off Shutterstock.
It’s pothole season, but photographers Davide Luciano and Claudia Ficca have re-imagined the possibilities of the bumps in the road.
So, a baby tiger walks into a bar…No, really.

Friday Links

February 21, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Happy Friday everyone! This week we have the not-so-happy breakup of the Corcoran, a video about a National Geographic archivist, the Leica Store DC’s latest winner, and much more. Enjoy!

Local photographer Jim Darling photographed the home of the founders of Sweetgreen for GQ.
A legal dispute over a photo taken by Maxwell Jackson and used by The Color Run was disputed, and finally settled without going to court. Lesson for everyone, have a contract whenever you license your images.
Photography from Ben Shahn & Marion Post Wolcott of African Americans living in Appalachia.
If you haven’t seen the Faces of Olympic Figure Skating yet, some of the looks are priceless.
The Leica Store DC announced their March Oskar Barnak Wall winner.
“Mainardis estimates that Getty lay down some 22 kilometers of ethernet cable so that most of its 37 photographers could be directly wired in.” Gizmodo breaks down the Olympic effort it takes to produce great images at the Games.
Dado Ruvic, a Reuters photographer, captured the abandoned Olympic venues in Sarajevo.
In case you missed it, the Corcoran is being taken over by GWU and the National Gallery of Art. Philip Kennicott is calling it “cultural euthanasia.”
National Geographic just released a very cool mini-documentary about their photograph archivist, Bill Bonner.
Incredible and horrendous images from the protests in the Ukraine. Be warned that many of those photos are not suitable for everyone.
Check out a sampling of astronaut Don Pettit’s photographs from space.
And finally, in tiger news, the Los Angeles Zoo will be hosting Snow Days this weekend. Their Sumatran tiger will have his pen transformed into a winter wonderland.

Friday Links

February 14, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

This is what tiger cubs call "playing" by Caroline Angelo — This is what tiger cubs call “playing” by Caroline Angelo

Happy Valentine’s Day! This week stock photos of women are finally getting some love, a wildlife photographer found the love of a family of foxes in her yard, a photographer looks back on a lifetime of loving his wife, and baby tigers find love in some unusual places.

Don’t forget our snow photo challenge! Tag your best ones from yesterday or any storm in the last year with “snowexposed” and get them into our Flickr pool by Monday for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Exposed DC Photography Show in March.
Stock photos of women are finally getting updated. LeanIn.org and Getty have partnered to show the diverse reality of women’s lives in photographs. “The new library of photos shows professional women as surgeons, painters, bakers, soldiers and hunters. There are girls riding skateboards, women lifting weights and fathers changing babies’ diapers.”
In related news, active female athletes have only appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated five times in the last five years.
The Magazine has a great story on photographer Michael Shindler who is creating tintype portraits in his San Francisco studio.
Wildlife photographer Melissa Groo found work in her own backyard when she discovered a family of foxes made a den in her shed.
Vanity Fair took a look back at Olympic photos from the early days of the Games.
The Baltimore Museum of Art received a major donation of contemporary art photography.
Hassan Hajjaj has captured interesting photographs of women in Moroccan motorbike gangs.
This is what 100,000 gallons of coal look like in a West Virginia river.
Not all babies are human or animal. Davin Haukebo-Bol has created a funny newborn session with his new computer baby.
Gizmodo has images of the world’s largest solar plant, which starting creating energy in California this week.
Photographer Art Shay created a stunning gallery of images from his 67 year marriage to his wife Florence. You might want to grab the tissues.
And finally, Discovery News has a cute Valentine’s Day roundup of unusual animal pairs, including an orphaned Sumatran tiger cub and an orangutan, and several more tiger pairings.

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