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Friday Links

September 6, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

"Ag Fair" by Chris McDaniel — “Ag Fair” by Chris McDaniel

It may have been a short work week, but we have lots of great links for you today. We have the work of two war photographers, discounted Adobe products, exploration of a Virginia island by a pair of local photographers, technological photography advances from the early 1900’s, and a possible step backwards technologically. We will let you decide that one.

Famed war photographer Don McCullin shared some of his thoughts and images with The Telegraph.
You will never get this reaction with via instant replay. Probably one of the funniest foul ball photos of all time.
Adobe announced a discounted introduction to their new Creative Cloud for photographers for only $9.99 per month. Users who buy in before the end of the year will be able to lock in that price.
Kodak is officially no longer a consumer photography company. We imagine Paul Simon is crying in a corner somewhere with his last box of Kodachrome.
The view inside the Maryland Statehouse dome is rarely seen by the public, so a Baltimore Sun photographer documented it for everyone’s benefit.
The Washington Post shared the story of another war photographer, Goran Tomasevic, about his recent work in Syria.
In Focus has a collection of the winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest. This snowboarding photo particularly caught our attention, but they are all jaw dropping.
Guns and Fine Art Dog Photography. With a title like that, who needs an explanation.
Do you rent photo equipment from Calumet? If so, you can take an image of your gear in action, share it on Instagram, and possibly win $250 in free rental gear.
Ghosts of DC has a photo of Blagden Alley from 1923. The alley is located behind the current location of Long View Gallery, where we have held our Exposed photo exhibit for the last few years.
A nice collection of images from regular contributors John Ulaszek and Chris Suspect of Tangier Island, VA.
No kids, this is not a joke. Someone is trying to fund a project that would make a smartphone photo enlarger. No comment.
Interested in real technological advancement? Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was making color images of the Russian Empire one hundred years ago.
If you don’t want to be seen looking like the village idiot, don’t smile like the village idiot. In what is being called censorship, Agence France Presse killed a photo of French President Francois Hollande making a silly face to French schoolchildren.
Ayu, a two year old Sumatran tiger has returned to her home at a zoo in Indonesia after surviving a poisoning attack. Another tiger and two lions were not as lucky, and died from the poisoning.

Friday Links

August 30, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

For this week’s roundup we have frightening images of factory farming, dogs from the past, marchers from the past, and cars from the past buried off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. Don’t worry, the baby tigers at the National Zoo are doing well, and will hopefully be in our future for a long time.

Former Exposed contest winner Bill Coyle won honorable mention in the Washington Post Travel photo contest for his image of Lake Powell. We are very excited for him, and happy that he learned about the contest through one of our Friday Links posts!
Mishka Henner stitched together satellite images to create very scary photographs of feedlots across the U.S. The waste from the industrial farms collects in pools, and the result is images that look like they were taken on another planet.
Phew! Our obsession with taking images of animals is not a new one. Check out these 29 vintage photographs of dogs.
LA based photographer Jason Knight has been documenting the abandoned car wreckage along a stretch of Mulholland Drive known as dead man’s curve.
A wild animal care center has opened in D.C. and this image of a baby hummingbird under their care is extremely adorable.
A New York City police officer has been indicted on charges of lying regarding the circumstances around the arrest of a photographer working for the New York Times.
The Washington City Paper shared a nice profile of photographer Michael Horsley and his images of 14th Street from the 80’s and 90’s.
Yay! The baby tigers born at the National Zoo this month are doing well and passed their first checkup. Completely squee worthy photos were the best part of the exam.
LIFE magazine shared previously unpublished images from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
To compliment that, we leave you with images from local photographer Matt Dunn of the anniversary march held this week.

Friday Links

August 16, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Photo by Pablo Raw — “Brooklyn, NY” by Pablo Raw

This week we have a gallery call for local photographers, a beautiful piece on a South African dance studio, and some thought provoking images of violence and hate.

Honfluer Gallery placed out a call for artists to create a photography exhibit in the downtown offices of a law firm. They are looking for “Photographers who currently live in DC, VA, MD. All levels of photographers are eligible to apply. Photographers who have limited exhibition experience are especially encouraged to apply.”
Positive Exposures, who who we interviewed in June, released their final work for Dance For All. Go watch the multimedia piece on their blog, it is worth your time.
Brilliant recycled Onion piece about a teenager getting into photography. I hope there were lots of brick walls and train tracks on that roll.
Photographer Anthony Karen earned the trust of members of the KKK and created a moving photo series. You can read his interview with FotoEvidence or download his book made for the iPad in the iTunes store.
In other weird photo KKK news, the city of Tulsa kept a street name the same, but changed it from honoring a Klan member to honoring photographer Matthew Brady.
A Reuters photographer was shot in the foot this week covering the events in Cairo.
Freelance photographer Mosa’ab Elshamy shared his very disturbing images from the aftermath of the violence in Egypt. Warning that these images may not be suitable for everyone.
In big cat news, Saturn has a tiger moon.
The Massachusetts State Police Photographer who released the photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture is back at work after a suspension.

Friday Links

August 9, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

CSuspect_MtRainer — “Untitled” by Chris Suspect

This week we have a dancer in the streets of D.C., rulings on two very different court cases involving the rights of photographers, beautiful photographs that look like sculptures, and of course goats and tigers — though not living together as best friends because that would break the internet.

Baby Tigers! Endangered baby tigers born at the National Zoo! There is even a a tiger cam.
National Geographic announced the winners of their Traveler Photo Contest.
The Capital Weather Gang breaks down how to tell if storm images are real or fake.
Cool photo of Washington Ballet performer Sun Chong as part of Jordan Matter’s Dancers Among Us series.
What would we do without YouTube? A 1988 lecture titled, Heinecken Explains Heinecken, has been unearthed for our viewing pleasure. The self proclaimed Paraphotographer, Robert Heinecken, shares some insight on his work.
A judge in NY state has ruled that artist Arne Svenson did not violate the privacy of his neighbors when he photographed them in their apartments. This is in stark contrast to the recent French ruling that stated photographer Yan Morvan breached his subjects’ rights to control their own image. The implications of that ruling may make it extremely difficult for photographers to publish work in France.
NPR took home two of the three prizes for Outstanding Environmental Journalism from the Society of Environmental Journalism. Photography is so much better on the radio.
You have never seen waves look the way photographer Pierre Carreau makes them look. His images present like glass sculptures.
NASA has a huge collection of free e-books online. If you can forgive the terrible formatting, there are some gems to be found, like Exploring Space with a Camera. You can delve into the technical aspects of space camera technology, or just look at the photos.
Seventy-five years after the original printing, MOMA is republishing “Walker Evans: American Photographs” and producing a new exhibit. The BBC has a nice piece on the work.
Don’t let the use of the H word scare you away, because these are beautiful food photographs.
Goats in a Cemetery is a better summer blockbuster than Snakes on a Plane.
Fotoweek DC announced their 2013 contest. Reminder that you can always find events like this on our calendar.

Friday Links

August 2, 2013 By exposeddc

"the bends" by Bryan Bowman — “the bends” by Bryan Bowman

This batch of Friday Links includes a list for your library run, an “original” street photographer, cats on rice, and, of course, your weekly tiger shot.

So there are a ton more Hasselblad photos from the Apollo program that aren’t in that gallery we shared last week.

WWJYR? A photographer’s must-read list from STRATA’s Joshua Yospyn.

Things aren’t always as they first seem. Studio shoot with a Ferrari.

Photogenic Alchemy is an exercise in controlled chaos and a study in the science of art.

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you: Cop Selfies.

“The notion of the individual photograph was really a problem because it had been exhausted.” Landscapes in Passing is currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Everybody’s on Instagram these days. Even the White House and its Chief Official Photographer.

“If Alice Austen weren’t a real person, some novelist might have had to invent her.” The Atlantic Cities on “the original New York street photographer.”

The startled looks are due to the impending chopstick squeeze: Sushi cats. (Also recommended just for the absurdity.)

A remarkable series of images of an underwater river in Mexico.

Miley Cyrus, allegedly, in a tiger onesie.