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Friday Links: May 1, 2015

May 1, 2015 By Heather Goss

There are lots of images from the protests and riots over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore, but you can start with, of course, the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore City Paper.
A photographer for Reuters was detained and another for the Baltimore City Paper was thrown to the ground by police last Friday.
Time magazine used an amateur photographer’s Instagram image for its cover on the Baltimore protests.
This short video from Getty Images, shares how photographer, Carleton E. Watkins saved Yosemite Park.
These satellite photos of seaweed farms in South Korea are gorgeous.
Thank you photoshop and this guy from Australia who likes cats. Behold: Brides throwing cats.
It’s been a rough week for people around the world. The LA Times has images from Nepal, where an earthquake has killed more than 5,000 people.
It’s spring, get out of the house! The Funk Parade is a can’t miss for photographers (and anyone else), or bring your camera and the family to celebrations at Glen Echo Park or Heurich House or fire up the action with Mexican wrestlers at the DC Fairgrounds.
Forty years ago this week, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the war.
Award winning photographer Marcus Bleasdale talks about how photography can affect change.
So you know the selfie stick? Well, the “Selfie Arm” takes the concept to a whole new level. A truly disturbing new level.
Wired has a photo gallery on the “shrinking community” living at Ummannaq, a remote village in Greenland.
Let’s zen out with these photos of color gradients in food by Brittany Wright.
Who needs a tiger link? You need a tiger link.

Friday Links: January 30, 2015

January 30, 2015 By Heather Goss

After this week’s drone incident at the White House, DJI – the drone’s manufacturer – has issued a mandatory firmware update disabling the use of their devices in D.C.’s no-fly zone.
Sports Illustrated laid off the rest of its photography staff this week. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
Sometimes the best moments of Saturday Night Live are the host portrait bumpers. Mary Ellen Matthews, the photographer who’s been doing them since 1999, talks about her work.
Vantage recently posted the second in a two-part interview with Karen Mullarky, “one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time.” Part 1, Part 2.
“I tried to imagine my life as a mother. I couldn’t think of a single female war photographer who had a stable relationship, much less a husband or a baby.” The New York Times published an excerpt by photojournalist Lynsey Addario from her book “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War,” available February 5.
Remote cameras caught a rare glimpse of a Sierra Nevada red fox in Yosemite National Park.
Photographer Carrie Schneider’s response to the lack of women in our literary canon.
Photographer Jim Magnan followed professional rally driver Ken Block kick up all the dust in southern Utah.
This gallery of Supermarket Spaceships shows life-size rockets inspired by 1950s TV-shows that used to tour the country to advertise bread and meat products.
While their images of the recent snowstorm had been solicited by the New York Times, Instagrammers only discovered their front-page placement by chance.
Meanwhile, here are some old photographs showing the aftermath of a huge snow storm that hit the eastern seaboard in March of 1888.
PDN Magazine is looking for “emerging photographers” to feature in their next issue. Is one of them you?
Welcome to Oymyakon, Russia – the coldest town on earth. It’s dark for 21 hours a day and, during winter, temperatures average minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit.
Art Shay, now 92 and one of the 20th century’s most prolific photographers, is starting to get the “appreciation from the art world he’s long deserved.”
15-year-old white tiger Omar got a routine medical exam at Wildlife Reserves Singapore; his keepers have trained him to stay calm so the tiger, entering his senior years, won’t have to go through the stress of being sedated.

Friday Links: January 16, 2015

January 16, 2015 By Meaghan Gay

We announced the winners of our 9th annual Exposed DC photo contest this week.
Photographer Zhang Xiao explored 9,000 miles of China’s coastline and the photos are fantastic.
Did you know that the work of Robert Frank lives right in our backyard? “The Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery of Art is the largest repository of materials related to renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank“
The FAA will permit drones for journalism, starting with CNN.
The Library of Congress is celebrating the 7th birthday of their Flickr Commons account with a virtual game that let’s you explore it.
“In deeply conservative Kabul, dozens of Afghans flock to the Oqab Paintball Club each week to to take their mind off decades of war.” Photos by Omar Sobhani.
Photographer Danielle Guenther creates scenes depicting the beautiful chaos of parenting.
The Women Photojournalists of Washington will be holding the Fourth Annual Photo Seminar and Portfolio Review On Valentine’s Day. Tickets are available now.
An Autochrome exhibit at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa shows the early years of color photography.
The movie Finding Vivian Maier was nominated for an Oscar in best documentary feature.
After a lifetime of taking photos while dodging bullets, James Natchwey is going to receive the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Dan Bannino has made amazing photos of shelter dogs dressed as writers. The writers span hundreds of years of history, but Bannino sadly only managed to find two women writers to emulate.
Local photographer Keith Lane recently had his book Canals added to the bookstore at the International Center for Photography.
The New York Times is trying to learn the history behind this Gordon Parks photograph of the Jim Crow South.
The ultra-orthadox Israeli newspaper Hamevaser took out Angela Merkel and Anne Hidalgo from a photo of the march in Paris last week. “Binyamin Lipkin, editor of Hamevaser, said the newspaper is a family publication that must be suitable for all audiences, including young children.” Phew, we can imagine how the sight of the type of human that gave birth to you would be traumatizing for a child.
“Karen Mullarkey is one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time.” This two part interview is from last year, but well worth the read.
AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot and injured covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest in Pakistan.
For all of the film lovers out there, Barbara Flueckiger, professor at the Institute of Cinema Studies, University of Zurich has put together a Timeline of Historical Film Colors.
Andrea Bruce has a wonderful series in the New York Times called Revealing a Slowly Changing Cuba.
And finally, two filmmakers captured high speed footage of a Siberian tiger being released to the wild.

Friday Links: January 9, 2015

January 9, 2015 By Meaghan Gay

16228803622_8b66e680ee_b — D.C. Streets on Film by Tim Fulmer

Local photographer and curator Cynthia Connolly’s series Letters on Top of Buildings has been acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum. A print of one of these images will be part of the WPA Art Auction and Gala at one of the last exhibits at Artisphere, opening January 29.
Photographer Andrea Lee caught this epic battle between a seal and an octopus off Huntington Beach, California. There is no good outcome to this battle.
Washington City Paper announced the winners of their second annual photography contest.
The Leica Store DC will be hosting a book signing with Barbara Klemm before her gallery opening at the Goethe-Institut on January 14.
The Women Photojournalists of Washington are hosting their first of three business of photography events on Monday January 12. Photographer and author John Harrington will discuss pricing, contracts and negotiations.
Photographer Camilo Vergara shows how a street in Harlem has changed over 37 years.
The long beloved Atlantic In Focus blog has changed to The Atlantic Photo. The expanded photo section will allow for larger photos, shorter posts with one or two photos, and will continue to cover larger photo stories.
PDN has a great roundup of all the camera gear news and roll-outs happening at the Consumer Electronics Show. There are plenty of drones, cameras, and gadgets to interest everyone.
The so called “Ansel Adams Act” has been introduced in Congress and has the huge goal of restoring the rights of photographers on public lands. We have our fingers crossed for a good outcome.
ASMPDC will be hosting an 8×10 next week on Tuesday January 13. Eight local photographers will spend ten minutes each discussing their work.
The annual National Western Stock Show hit the streets of Denver this week, and The Denver Post has some great photos. We wish there were more cattle traffic slowdowns in D.C. At least it would be more interesting than a Metro meltdown.
Stanley Greene created moving images of the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan.
The London Zoo took stock of their animals at the turn of the new year, and the Post has some epic tiger shots in their animal gallery.

It’s a new year, so we got a new website design! How do you like our new digs?? Poke around and tell us what you love, or what could still be tweaked, or if anything is still buggy in the comments or by email.

Photographers, this is the LAST WEEKEND to submit your D.C.-area images to the 9th annual Exposed DC photography contest! About 40 images that tell the story of the DMV we know and love will go on display at the Capital Fringe headquarters next March in our blow-out exhibition. The deadline for entries is next Wednesday, January 7 at midnight. We’ll announce the winners the following Tuesday, January 13, and have a celebration for everyone at our monthly happy hour at Meridian Pint that evening. Alright, let’s get to the links.

Look at these crazy, crazy trees. Almost as crazy as the platinum/palladium process Beth Moon uses to photograph them.
White House photographer Pete Souza talks about the stories behind the shots.
The Capital Weather Gang collected D.C.’s best weather shots from 2014 — (we count six former Exposed winners!).
Meanwhile, the Washington Post‘s In Sight photo blog features a selection of snowy winter scenes from Washington’s past.
Politico does what it does best, and collected the 10 Best Washington Photos from 2014.
Last week we had the top 10 photos from the Department of Interior’s incredible Instagram account; Huffington Post did a step better and dug up its top 10 animal photos.
How do all these Best Of lists get made? The New York Times‘ Lens blog writes about how they choose 100 photos for their 2014 Year in Pictures.
The annual Sony World Photography competition is still accepting entries, but see what you’re up against with these 15 contenders.
Photographer Jill Waterman has been documenting New Year’s Eve celebrations in a different city every year since 1983, bouncing from Bethlehem to Prague, Shanghai to Montreal, Miami to San Francisco.
Photojournalist Lucas Jackson, embedded with American soldiers in Afghanistan, shares intimate and up-close photographs documenting the daily life, training, and camaraderie of troops counting down their final days in the region.
David Kasnic documents the people and practices that make up the controversial, annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas.
Maxine Helfman’s “Historical Correction” photo series places black subjects in historical Flemish-style portraits.
The Washington Post has a slideshow of tigers held in captivity in the Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, in China’s Heilongjiang province. Chinese demand for tiger rugs and wine made from tiger bones is putting the wild cats in peril.