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Friday Links

May 9, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Happy Friday, link lovers! This week we have a local photographer explaining the use of anamorphic lenses on his blog, new local professional development workshops, Amazon patenting shooting on a white seamless, and much more!

The May APA DC featured member is Erika Nizborski, who was also an Exposed DC contest winner. She was interviewed on their blog by Jim Darling, who also happens to be a former Exposed winner.
George Steinmetz’s work is on the cover of National Geographic this month. His creation of the photos of factory farms got him arrested last year.
Kickstarter for a panoramic camera that makes images in fancy 4k resolution, called CENTR.
Local wedding photographer Sam Hurd wrote an excellent post on his blog describing how he uses an anamorphic lens. The post was later picked up by PetaPixel.
The Los Angeles Times has redesigned their photography section, and there is plenty of great work to enjoy.
In extremely weird news, Amazon has patented shooting on a white seamless background. No word yet what the estate of Richard Avedon will have to pay in royalty fees.
Interested in professional development? Local photographer E. Brady Robinson will be hosting workshops at The Fringe.
Polaroid made a camera in the 60’s called The Swinger, and fittingly the commercial is full of sexual innuendo.
The title of this article says more than enough, “Man Photoshops Himself Into Girlfriend’s Childhood Photographs.” An alternative title could have been, “How To Quickly Make Yourself Into An Ex-Boyfriend.”
Who controls an artist’s work after their death? The Wall Street Journal looks at the posthumous production of prints from negatives created by Vivian Maier and Garry Winogrand.
Photographer Sophie Gamand takes a hard look at one of the most humiliating part of a dogs life, bath time.
The Calumet website is back online. Calumet was sold to C & A Marketing, and you can read some legal documents about the case here, and here. You can also read the perspective of a college student struggling with the loss of the camera store.
And finally, the Philadelphia zoo creating a cat walk crossing that allows tigers to leave their exhibits and travel across the zoo can only mean one thing – Road Trip!

Friday Links: March 28, 2014

March 28, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Up this week: The Washington Post reviews our 2014 Exposed DC exhibit; animal photos – lots of them; an exploration of how a photograph can lie; and some thoughts from Getty on the relationship between photography and architecture. Happy Friday!

Be sure to pick up a copy of the Washington Post today to read their review of our Exposed DC show. Featured in the Weekend Section, the review is accompanied by many photos from the show.
Annie Leibovitz has joined twitter.
The National Geographic Traveler annual photo contest is now open.
If you enjoy dog portraits as much as we do, you will love the work of Elke Vogelsang.
And for the cat lovers, we have these amazing and slightly frightening cheetah photos.
If you like the mass hysteria of cats and dogs living together, there is the work of D.C. resident Sabrina Paige, who’s gaining popularity on Instagram for her photos of interspecies cuddling.
A former trash collector has amassed a large collection of World War II photographs, all of which he saved from the garbage.
“Sometimes, I feel that we photographers forget how much power that we wield, not only with our images, but, also, with the words that we write to accompany our photography.” Chicago Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante, who was at the game where Journal Star photographer Ron Johnson took an image of high school basketball player “flipping off the crowd,” explains that photographs aren’t always what they seem.
The National Academy of Sciences will be hosting two photography shows and receptions. The first is Caleb Cain’s A Portrait of Ice and the second is Nests by Sharon Beals.
When the Sand Creatures wage their war, we are all doomed. Beautiful work by Claire Droppert.
VII Photo Agency announced the five new photographers in their mentor program.
The story of photographer Vivian Maier is familiar to many in the photography world, but now her story is hitting the big screen in the documentary “Finding Vivian Maier.” It opens in D.C. at Landmark E Street Cinema on April 25.
Who says there isn’t money in photography? George J. Rosa III, the former owner of the Hallmark Institute for Photography plead guilty to charges of bank fraud and tax evasion after stealing $2.6 million in school money.
Reuters announced the launch of a new photo and video service this week.
Just when you thought this post couldn’t possibly have any more animals photos, we share the work of Ernest Goh. His chicken beauty pageant photos are going viral, but all of his work is worth seeing.
The New York Times Lens Blog wrote about the American Cool Exhibit on display now at the National Portrait Gallery.
Self Magazine requested to use the photo of a female runner dressed as Wonder Woman taken during the LA Marathon. The woman agreed, and Self proceeded to mock the woman’s outfit in the magazine. Turns out the woman wore the outfit because it was her first marathon since she started chemo for brain cancer.
The Getty Museum explores the relationship between architecture and photography.
The Oregon Zoo lost their female Amur tiger this week after she suffered a seizure.

Friday Links

December 27, 2013 By Heather Goss

Christmas week, whether you celebrate or not, is often one punctuated by lots of downtime, so we’ve got some great reading and even better pictures to keep you busy through the weekend. And of course, we assume you’re taking some of that time to pick your three best D.C.-area photos to enter into our contest? Submissions close on midnight January 8 (and be mindful of our suggestion to make your Flickr account now and upload a few images, even if you aren’t ready to submit them to our contest group, because it can take a few days for Flickr to approve your account and make it viewable to the public — i.e. us!) Do you have questions about the contest or what you should enter? Ask us in the comments or at info [at] exposeddc.com.

The Washington City Paper’s Louis Jacobson tells us what he considers the best photography exhibits in D.C. in 2013.
Vivian Maier was a pioneering street photographer who became a household name when a couple of guys stumbled upon nearly her entire life’s work in 2007 and launched an immensely successful Kickstarter to film a movie about her. Now you can view her contact sheets online.
Using tilt-shift to create “Tiny universes” made out of pictures of the big universe. This one is for the astro-nerds.
A young Syrian photographer who freelanced for Reuters was killed while covering the fighting in Aleppo last week.
Speaking of young Syrians, HIPA, a Dubai arts foundation, worked with child refugees in a Jordanian camp, giving them cameras and lessons on how to use photography as a form of communication. Incidentally, HIPA also runs a photography contest open to anyone in the world over 18 that closes on December 31, 2013, is free to enter, and offers nearly $400,000 in prize money.
The headline “Photographer Finds Cockatiels, Jesus in NYC Basements” definitely had us clicking through.
The famed horse track, where thoroughbreds like Seabiscuit and Citation once ran, has closed.
A Washington, D.C. family poses for a Christmas portrait in 1918.
We need every publication to start doing this: The New Yorker posts all the bizarro photos they dug up while doing research in 2013.
You probably saw this link posted on Facebook by every photographer you know last week. These cheetsheets are even more beautiful than they are helpful.
Looking to develop some film? Local Darkroom has what you need, wherever you might be.
The only thing wrong with this photo gallery of Dominic the pit bull puppy cuddling animal patients as they come out of surgery is that we can’t reach through the screen and cuddle Dominic right back.
A new book, Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk Of Lightning, takes a look at documentary photographer’s life.
Well this is pretty terrible. A San Diego male tiger killed its mate while attempting to breed. If that’s not your cup of link tea, how about this photographer getting a scary view of a tiger shark with its jaws wide open.