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Friday Links: November 14, 2014

November 14, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Dance Party at the FCC by Joe Newman
Dance Party at the FCC by Joe Newman

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.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Amos Chapple, APA DC, FotoWeek, FotoWeekDC, friday links, Martin Schoeller, NASA, Philae, Thomas Hoepker, tigers, Umberto Pizzi

Friday Links: October 3, 2014

October 3, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Double buckets by Tim Brown.
Double buckets by Tim Brown. (Go Nats!)

We’ll see you TONIGHT at Washington Artworks / Washington School of Photography for the big opening for our Exposed DC / InstantDC Fall Review! Come see 45 phenomenal images by D.C.-area photographers, including our fantastic prize-winners. Here’s how to get there. Then, join us next Tuesday at Brookland Pint for our monthly happy hour. And THEN sign up for one last free Knowledge Commons class taking photos of the airplanes at Gravelly Point on Saturday, October 11. Both the September classes got rained-out halfway through the session, so our teacher Chris Williams is generously offering one more class for new folks and anyone who didn’t get their fill in their half-session. Exposed DC has got you covered for all your photo event needs!

  • Let’s start off Friday Links the right way, with amazing and very wet photos of dogs by Sophie Gamand.
  • Terrifying photos of the surprising volcanic eruption in Japan.
  • The American West offers a landscape fraught with potential cliche, but Lucas Foglia’s project Frontcountry cuts through popular conceptions and shows the reality of a rapidly transforming part of America.
  • The African Art Museum is featuring the work of Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge. “As an official photographer to the Royal Court of the Benin, Alonge documented the rituals, pageantry, and regalia of the court for over a half-century.”
  • In the first decades of the 1900s, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky traversed the length and breadth of the Russian Empire using a specially adapted railroad car as a darkroom, capturing its diverse, pre-revolution population in more than 10,000 full-color photographs.
  • The odd beauty of 60-year-old preserved brains from the Texas State Mental Hospital.
  • One of the “Outlaw Instagrammers” describes his experience climbing the tallest residential building in New York City. The 15-year old admitted that his mom was not impressed.
  • Indigenous peoples have been documented before, but the results have often been patronizing, says Jimmy Nelson. So he traveled the world to photograph 35 threatened tribes in an unashamedly glamorous style.
  • A new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art shows the work of Captain Linnaeus Tripe, and the images he made in India and Burma in the middle of the19th century. “Many of his pictures were the first photographs ever made of celebrated archaeological sites and monuments, ancient and contemporary religious and secular buildings — some now destroyed — as well as geological formations and landscape vistas.”
  • Stunning aerials of Spanish landscapes in the fall by David Maisel.
  • “Porcupines reek. Traer Scott found this out the hard way — the photographer’s way — crawling on the ground, lying on her stomach to encounter a porcupine family none too happy to see her.” Totally worth if for the resulting gorgeous, nocturnal animal photography.
  • No Man’s Job is a documentary portrait series by Anthony Kurtz that sheds light on women doing the “dirty or tough jobs” performed primarily by men. First in the series, the female auto mechanics of Senegal.
  • Photographer Marina Cano captures wild animals in their most unguarded moments. Tigers included, obviously.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Captain Linnaeus Tripe, Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge, David Maisel, dogs, friday links, Lucas Foglia, Marina Cano, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Sophie Gamand, tigers, Traer Scott

Friday Links: September 12, 2014

September 12, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Water Dreams, Yards Park by Chris McDaniel
Water Dreams, Yards Park by Chris McDaniel

Our last free photography class through Knowledge Commons DC opened for registration today. Sign up now to learn street photography techniques from professional instructor Gerry Suchy next Saturday, September 20 at 10 a.m. Gerry will have one more class on September 27. UPDATE: The Sept 20 class is full! You can still sign up for the waitlist. Get ready early NEXT FRIDAY when registration opens for the Sept. 27 class.

Join us TONIGHT for our Photobook Happy Hour at WeWork Wonder Bread less than a block from the Shaw metro, 6 to 8 p.m. The event is free, and you can browse great books by Chris Suspect, Mambu Badu, Adam Ryder, Michael Andrade, and Keith Campbell — and talk to the artists about how they went about publishing their work. Everitt Clark will also be there with his soon-to-be-published prints and the 4″x5″ large format camera he uses.

  • Printing your mobile photos just got a lot easier with Mpix Tap To Print app.
  • The deadline for the DC State Fair annual photo contest is approaching fast. Get your photos in by Sept 15. (There’s not much submitted right now, so your chances of winning are pretty good!)
  • “I would love for people to care about young talented photographers before they are killed.” The New York Times takes a look at the dangers facing photojournalists.
  • The Library of Congress opened a new online photo archive that contains thousands of images of life during the Great Depression.
  • If you have an extra $26,000 lying around, the new Mamiya Leaf looks pretty amazing.
  • Scientists from the University of Surrey explain how to take a decent selfie. Among their tips, taking a photo from arm’s length can make portraits look “bulbous” with a “big nose and vanishing ears,” like the famous “monkey selfie.”
  • Faceplanting into the couch is so much more fun in the Oval Office.
  • The latest D.C. arts commission public art project seems to be neither local, nor remaining public art very long.
  • China has the best photo trends, and this one is no exception. Nothing says ‘I Love You’ like posing together in expensive clothes while swimming underwater.
  • Photographer Angela Castillo caught all the sad dads at a One Direction concert.
  • Cool photos of people playing with clouds and forced perspective.
  • Washington Photo Safari is offering a photo class at Mount Vernon this fall.
  • Opening tonight at Vivid Solutions is Jared Soares photo series of a basketball court at Barry Farms.
  • And finally, baby tigers getting along with Bluejays? Anything is possible.

 

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Angela Castillo, DC State Fair, friday links, Library of Congress, Mpix, tigers, Vivid Solutions

Friday Links

September 5, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

All we are saying... by number7cloud
All we are saying… by number7cloud

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.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Andrei Stenin, APA, awards, Capital Photography Center, Chris Suspect, Danila Tkachenko, DC Focused, Dita Pepe, Eric Lafforgue, Fan Ho, friday links, Oliver Blohm, Peng Yanguin, Photokina, Thomas Hoepker, tigers, Walker Evans, Yudy Sauw

Friday Links

August 29, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Angle of Attack by Robb Hohmann
Angle of Attack by Robb Hohmann

Registration is open for our first set of free photography classes through Knowledge Commons DC! Take some fantastic images like this one by Robb Hohmann at Gravelly Point next Tuesday, September 2, or Saturday, September 6, with our talented teacher Chris Williams. Our classes on street photography and impromptu portraiture will open soon.

  • Read this editorial from John Naughton on why he loves his Leica.
  • One of the great things about photography is how you can do so much with so little. Martin Kimbell takes stunning photos using a hula hoop and LED lights.
  • “This week, Mr. Adelman will become, in essence, a photographer in residence at the Library of Congress, a position created to draw attention to the importance of the medium in American life.” Adelman’s work is full of interesting social commentary.
  • You will think this is amazing or creepy as can be, photographs from a doll hospital in Syndney. The steaming baby head is particularly amazing.
  • If you like your food to color coordinate, you will like the work of Emily Blincoe.
  • Patricia Lay-Dorsey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1988, and has been documenting her life in photographs for the last six years.
  • Getty looks back at the work of Stanley Green, who won their award in 2011 for his documentary work on toxic electronic waste.
  • A crazy cat lady/nurse in Peru cares 175 cats with feline leukemia; there are photos by Martin Mejia.
  • To raise money for tigers, a group last week streaked the London zoo some in painted on tiger costumes.

 

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Bob Adelman, friday links, John Naughton, Martin Kimbell, Martin Mejia, Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Stanley Greene, tigers

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