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Friday Links

April 25, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Charlottesville V by His Noodly Appendage
Charlottesville V by His Noodly Appendage

Happy Friday! Our links this week include more awards for Tyler Hicks, the National Zoo trying to help Sumatran Tigers, great photos of local food, and a possible ban on overly photoshopped images.

  • This week Lytro announced the Illum, a new light-field camera. Light-field (or plenoptic) cameras capture all of the light in a given scene, allowing you to make significant changes to photos, like choosing different focus points and even perspective, after you’ve taken them.
  • Local photographer, and  two-time Exposed winner, Rey Lopez has mouth-watering images of chef Matt Adler making gnocchi on Eater DC.
  • After years of clarifying that she was Indian, and not Native American, photographer Annu Palakunnathu Matthew uses the diptych to compare and contrast her Indian cultural heritage to Native American Indians.
  • Zoey and Jasper – a rescue dog and her little boy. Because adorable.
  • Terry Richardson was accused again this week of sexual harassment, after a model shared a message he allegedly sent offering a Vogue photo shoot in exchange for sex. This is not the first time someone has stepped forward with accusations against Richardson, with some of those including sexual assault. Can the photo world agree to be done with this predator already?
  • Photographer Aline Smithson has made all of your doll nightmares a reality.
  • Tyler Hicks won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award this week for his story on the 2013 attack on a Nairobi mall. Hicks also won the Pulitzer Prize for the story, and shared behind the scenes information about it with NPR.
  • Photographer Rohan Anderson photographed a band for a publication, and the band subsequently used his photo without permission. The band did not like his request for payment, and responded like whiney five-year olds. After the story went viral, the band paid up. No word on if they apologized for posting the photo using a pseudo HDR filter.
  • Photographer Zahir Batin has revealed the private lives of Storm Troopers. This of course includes waiting at the AT-AT stop and feeding baby chickens.
  • We can agree that excessive photoshopping is terrible, but do we need a law banning it? And if we are banning things, can we at least start with selective color images?
  • The Smithsonian has created the Endangered Song project to raise money for the 400 remaining Sumatran Tigers, who are at risk of going extinct. They printed 400 lathe-cut records of a song by the band Portugal. The Man, which will degrade over time and ‘go extinct’ unless it’s digitally reproduced. You can see more tiger photos on the Zoo’s Instagram page.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Aline Smithson, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, dog, Eater DC, friday links, Illium, Lytro, national zoo, Rey Lopez, Robert Capa Gold Medal, Rohan Anderson, Smithsonian, Terry Richardson, tigers, Tyler Hicks, Zahir Batan

Friday Links

September 27, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Photo by Chris Chen
Photo by Chris Chen

Plenty of links for your consumption this week. We have tragic photos from the massacre in Kenya, a photographer named a genius, a Leica store contest, animals loving humans, animals behaving like humans, and humans behaving like animals.

  • Tyler Hicks of the New York Times entered the Westgate Mall in Nairobi after the shooting started last week. His interview and incredibly sad and terrifying images from that day are on the Times’ Lens blog. Warning, some of the images are graphic.
  • “I don’t think of myself as a female photojournalist. I’m a photojournalist… an individual. Part of what I bring to the table is how I interact with my subjects and obviously being a woman may impact people’s responses to me.” Women Photojournalists of Washington President, Jacquelyn Martin’s interview on the NPPA blog.
  • Fascinating animal photos from Mary Ellen Mark, they are part of a book that will be coming out next spring.
  • The Washington, D.C. Leica store has announced a monthly photo contest, so if you shoot with a Leica go join their flickr pool. I’m hoping the Leica fairy brings me an M9.
  • You can be a photography genius. Carrie Mae Weems has spent her long career exploring class, racism, gender roles and sexism. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship this week.
  • When you are a grumpy old baseball fan you don’t care why someone is getting in the way of your view, you just want them to move. You may even go to great lengths, like flipping the bird in someone’s proposal photo.
  • Exposed HQ is buzzing with the news that Steve Winters will be speaking at National Geographic in November to share images from his new book Tigers Forever. #Tigers4EVA
  • If you are heading to Charlottesville, the Fralin Museum of Art at UVA is hosting two landscape photography exhibits. One is original work of Ansel Adams, the other is work from contemporary landscape photographers.
  • Isn’t this part of the photographer ten commandments? Thou shall not steal another photographer’s photo and enter it in a contest. Yes, it is, right after thou shall not use HDR.
  • The D.C. State Fair has announced the finalists in their photography contest. Winners will be announced at the fair tomorrow.
  • The Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners have been announced. The images are beautiful, and a sad reminder that light pollution is taking away the night sky for those of us living in urban areas.
  • And finally, historic photographs of animals doing funny things, including a chimp feeding a baby.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Ansel Adams, Carrie Mae Weems, Fralin, friday links, Jacquelyn Martin, Leica Store, NPPA, tiger, Tigers Forever, Tyler Hicks, WPOW

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