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Friday Links: November 6, 2015

November 6, 2015 By James Calder

Registration for our first free 2015 photography class with Knowledge Commons DC opens today! Learn tips to take envy-inducing photos of your food with Exposed pal Samer Farha with tasty dishes from Birch & Barley on November 14 (ETA: Class is full! Sign up for the wait list here). Sign up soon because the class will fill up fast! Tomorrow registration opens for our street photography class with Exposed winner Mukul Ranjan, and open for sign ups later this week, we’ve brought back Chris Williams for his super fun class photographing airplanes at Gravelly Point, and talented wedding and art photographer Sarah Hodzic will teach you the art of the Holga (camera and film provided).

Our monthly happy hour is next Tuesday, November 10, at Lena’s, a brand new restaurant and bar across the street from the Braddock Road metro.
Go to a free film developing workshop this Saturday at Artomatic taught by Exposed DC pal Angela Kleis.
The deadline for the Air & Space Magazine photo contest is November 15. The National Geographic deadline is November 16.
The 2015 annual Women Photojournalists of Washington juried photography exhibition debuts at FotoWeekDC today. The show features 26 images on women’s issues from WPOW members, chosen from more than 150 entries, and will travel to universities and galleries across the United States.
Fascinating photos of North Korea’s illicit economy from Reuter’s photographer Damir Sagolj.
“These fearless female visionaries spotlighted identity politics, the body and sexuality.” Dazed profiles 10 woman photographers whose work you should be following.
A Bronx photographer’s images got the charges against him dropped, and the arresting officer prosecuted instead.
Sardonic pictures of fashionistas by Miles Ladin focus on the intersection of celebrity and culture.
It wasn’t a stunt for the opening of the new James Bond movie: Two dudes in jetpacks fly in formation with an Emirates A380 over Dubai.
Skywatchers in Michigan were treated to an incredible aurora earlier this week.
“Manhattan” is the unofficial name for two once-prestigious high-rises in Oderbruch, near Berlin. Stephanie Steinkopf’s images, taken over four years, show the poverty and camaraderie that exists just outside Germany’s capital.
While visiting a port in Amsterdam, Raymond Waltjen stopped to admire a large ship that passed by close to where he was standing. This inspired his series “Destination” which captures the quiet beauty of solitary freight ships.
A reissue of Philippe Halsman’s “Jump Book” displays his famed method for getting his subjects to let down their defenses and offer a glimpse of their personalities.
Victoria Crayhon documents her use of old marquees to display clever, poetic messages.
How sheepdogs are helping to save penguins from foxes in Australia.

FotoWeekDC: Choose Wisely

November 4, 2014 By exposeddc

Last year's FotoBazaar, by Joe Flood. — Last year’s FotoBazaar, by Joe Flood.

FotoWeekDC is upon us again, opening its seventh annual photography festival this Friday with a blow-out opening party at their new headquarters, the Former Spanish Ambassador’s Residence in Mount Pleasant. As always, there’s an overwhelming number of events, so we picked out a handful that we recommend making a priority. Got more worth recommending? Tell us in the comments.

(P.S. It’s not part of FotoWeek, but make time this Sunday for the opening of an extended run of our InstantDC Fall Review at Bloombars, from 2 to 4 p.m.)

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Friday Links

September 27, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

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.