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Friday Links

January 17, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Fog over Memorial Bridge by Kevin Wolf
Fog over Memorial Bridge by Kevin Wolf

Our links this week include a kitten photo shoot, Robert Capa’s color photographs, magical Edward Hopper inspired images, an opportunity to meet Bao Bao, and the Leica Store DC’s monthly photo winner. Dive right in, the water’s lovely!

  • Want to get up close and personal with giant panda cub Bao Bao? The National Zoo is hosting an Instameet, and you need to sign up by January 21.
  • The butterfly arm tattoo was his initial nomination, but when this guy took his kitten in for a formal portrait at J.C. Penney he won the hipster for life award.
  • D.C.’s own Pat Padua reviewed Brandon Stanton’s photo book Humans of New York.
  • The International Center of Photography in New York will be hosting an exhibit of Robert Capa’s color photographs.
  • Interesting interview with NASA’s chief photographer Bill Ingalls.
  • Giant grocery store wanted to welcome back Howard University students, but upset many with the photograph they chose. Perhaps if they went with a local photographer instead of stock this wouldn’t have happened.
  • The New York Portfolio Review is coming back for a second year.
  • If you are an Android fan, Lifehacker breaks down the best photo apps.
  • Ghosts of D.C. shared an old photo of a slave auction house in Alexandria this week. Additionally, the Library of Congress hosts a large collection of photographs of African Americans during the Civil War.
  • Speaking of old photos, the website WhatWasThere.com overlays photographs with the location where they were taken. You can even see the current street view with the old photo sliding in front of it.
  • Dreamy photographs inspired by Edward Hopper paintings, by Richard Tuschman.
  • Flak Photo, the online photo publication, is looking for submissions.
  • Photoshopping an image of Martin Luther King always seems like a bad idea, but using it to promote your twerking event is particularly bad. The event was cancelled.
  • The New York Times included large, lovely images with their list of “52 Places to Go in 2014”. The best news is that you can scroll down instead of clicking through.
  • The Leica Store DC announced the January winner for their Oskar Barnack Wall.
  • Slate shared Eugene Ellenberg’s series “In My Father’s House.” The work “deals with the concept of Ellenberg’s memory of his family and his method for trying to better understand their relationships, as well as attempting to understand exactly who they all are.”
  • The League of Reston Artists has a call for photographs, for a show at the Reston Chamber of Commerce.
  • Wired shared the story of Tama Dezso’s photography project in Romania. He has been documenting the crumbling infrastructure left behind after the fall of the Soviet Union.
  • Steve Winter’s book of tiger images, Tigers Forever, is being used to promote tiger conservation. There are shockingly only approximately 3,000 tigers left in the wild.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Bao Bao, Bill Ingalls, Brandon Stanton, Eugene Ellenberg, Flak Photo, Ghosts of D.C., Giant Gorcery Store, Howard University, ICP, Instameet, Leica Store DC, NASA, national zoo, New York Photography Review, Pat Padua, photo apps, Richard Tuschman, Robert Capa, Steve Winter, tigers, Tigers Forever, Whatwasthere.com

Friday Links

January 10, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

scream by jenny markley
scream by jenny markley

Guess what day it is! Yup, it’s time for your weekly slew of fab photography-related links, including Bao Bao up close and personal, a slightly delayed wedding photo shoot, and tigers galore. Happy Friday!

  • NPR took a look inside food, by showing dissected edibles. The work is from photographers Beth Galton and Charlotte Omnes.
  • Yesterday the Washington City Paper announced the winners of their first ever photo contest. Congratulations to those selected.
  • If your resolution for the New Year was to improve your photography, here are ten steps to follow.
  • If you missed portrait photographer Martin Schoeller speak on “The Power of Photography to Relate” at National Geographic, you can catch it online.
  • In case you somehow didn’t hear the story this week, a family was reunited with their missing son after seeing a photo that local AP photographer, and Exposed 2014 special prize judge, Jacquelyn Martin shot.
  • After receiving a check for $1.32 for the use of one of his images, photographer Joe McNally shared his thoughts on the state of the industry.
  • The photographer scheduled for their wedding never showed up, so this couple took their themed wedding photos later. 61 years later.
  • Smithsonian Magazine has an exclusive with our most beloved D.C. resident, Bao Bao. Be very careful looking at the last photo, the cuteness may cause extreme giddiness.
  • Steve Winter’s book on tigers is out. The name of the book Tigers Forever is quite a coincidence since the entire Exposed DC tiger-loving team has “TIGERS 4EVA” tattooed on their chests.
  • Photographer Adam Magyar is creating new technology that changes the way we photograph time.
  • Attempting to step out of their normal routine, photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida created magic worlds using food and miniatures.
  • The average salary for a U.S. photographer is $36,330. The only upside is that this data does not include freelancers.
  • We had to end on a happier note, so we have a bonus tiger link this week. The polar vortex was too much for Bandar and Sukacita, so they played inside with a ball and a tub of water.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Adam Magyar, Akiko Ida, Bao Bao, Beth Galton, Charlotte Omnes, friday links, Jacquelyn Martin, Joe McNally, Martin Schoeller, panda, Pierre Javelle, Smithsonian, Steve Winter, tigers, Tigers Forever

Friday Links on Wednesday

November 27, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Sumatran Tiger Cubs by John Sonderman
Sumatran Tiger Cubs by John Sonderman

We are posting early this week so you can enjoy these tasty links over the long holiday weekend. Feel free to click for escape if one of your relatives starts talking about politics over the weekend.

  • Beautiful photos of individual snowflakes are possible with this cheap, home-made camera rig. Let it snow!
  • A photo series started in D.C. by E. Brady Robinson, is spreading across the East Coast. She is creating a book called Art Desks, the work spaces of of artists and curators, and is funding it via Indiegogo.
  • You can vote for your favorite finalists in the Air & Space Magazine photo contest until December 12.
  • Open now until December 20, the Pepco Edison Gallery is hosting Montgomery College Foundation’s Portraits of Life Exhibit. “The emphasis of Portraits of Life is tolerance, understanding, knowledge and the inherent value of the individual.”
  • Squinching is the new Duck Face.
  • You have until December 2 to get a great deal from Adobe on their subscription to Photoshop & Lightroom 5.
  • Epson has several great tutorials on printing available online. These black & white print videos are a highlight.
  • “We’re constantly tweeting and instagramming, and the media is always showing us exactly what’s happening when it’s happening, but it’s an illusion. Are we really so connected?” Washington Post review of Alex Prader’s new show at the Corcoran.
  • Need a job? Critical Exposure, the D.C. non-profit that teaches youth the power of photography, is hiring a Development & Communications Director.
  • Hotel guests across the country will no longer be greeted by propaganda first thing in the morning, since USA Today has announced it will no longer publish handout photos from the White House.
  • Do you have a lot of leaves to rake? Perhaps getting a baby lion to play in them will make your leaf piles more manageable.
  • Many images from space are amazing, but this collection is particularly stunning.
  • Umm, the following link is pretty gross, so perhaps you should click with care. But merging animals before cooking used to be a thing I guess. “There is a variation on this dish called the Helmeted Cock in which the bird is made to ride the pig in military regalia.”
  • Photojournalist ranks just below dishwasher as a career.
  • If you have some spare time this weekend, the Library of Congress uploaded their 20,000th photo to Flickr this week.
  • The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation gave $3 million to the World Wildlife Fund to help grow the tiger population in Nepal. Leo, if you need photos of baby tigers taken, call me.

Have a great Thanksgiving! We will see you back here on Monday.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Adobe, Air & Space, Alex Prader, Art Desks, baby lion, E. Brady Robinson, Epson, friday links, Library of Congress, Pepco Edison Gallery, Snowflakes, Squinching, tigers, USA Today

Friday Links

November 15, 2013 By Heather Goss

11/6/13 crescent moon by Kevin Wolf
11/6/13 crescent moon by Kevin Wolf

This week we have newspapers standing up for photographers, an erupting volcano fly-by, and the Japanese rockabilly scene.

  • Re-imagining old photos is the new black. Here we’ve got your classic photographs remade with Legos, and over here we’ve got your famous pics turned into selfies, of course.
  • “I remember taking off that day and swinging over the coast. I could see all that red lava just flowing down. A beautiful sight.” A World War II squadron flies by while Mount Vesuvius erupts.
  • With so many papers dumping their staff photographers, French newspaper Libération took a stand for the art, printing their November 14 issue completely without images. The editors wrote that they wanted to “show the power and importance of photography at a time when the industry is facing unprecedented challenges.” À votre santé, Libération!
  • NPR covers a new exhibit in São Paulo that documents the last vestiges of legal slavery in the Americas.
  • These students are embracing the old school, shunning digital photography for “antique techniques.” Before you bristle at film being called “antique,” these kids are actually learning platinum developing, used before the first world war. Can we sign up?
  • Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last week, “thought to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall anywhere in the world in modern records.” Photojournalist Bullit Marquez was there to cover the devastation. Consider making a donation to one of these worthy non-profits (remember, send cash, not supplies).
  • Photographer Kyle Thompson used his social anxiety as fuel for a truly impressive self-portrait series.
  • When Denny Renshaw wanted to seek out a Japanese sub-culture, he turned to his Tennessee roots, and discovered the Tokyo Rockabilly Club.
  • And for your weekly tiger link (see #24), we have to parrot one of the commenters: “It’s all fun and games until you realize you’re about to Instagram your own mauling.”

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: legos, newspapers, photojournalists, platinum developing, self-portraits, selfies, slavery, tigers, typhoon, volcanoes

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