Did you get your tickets for the opening of our 12th annual Exposed DC Photography Show yet? Grab them now and mark your calendars for Friday, May 11 to join the party and see the 40 winning photographs displayed and projected throughout the Dupont Underground!

• Head to the opening reception this Sunday for “Space Around Us” at GlenEcho Photoworks, featuring photography by Ira Tattleman. 4 to 6 p.m.
• Last August, photojournalist Ryan Kelly stopped by a Charlottesville rally on his last day in the newsroom before starting a job doing social media for a brewery. On Monday, he won a Pulitzer for the harrowing photo he took that day.
• Stock photography has long lacked diversity, but it looks like people are starting to focus on changing that, from Karen Okonokwo co-creating TONL to Bex Day’s efforts that we shared in a previous Friday Links. Hopefully, this trend continues.
• A new book takes a nostalgic look at New York’s subway through the eyes of legendary photographer Helen Levitt.
• Amateur artists 50 and over who live in Maryland, D.C. or Virginia are invited to enter the Beacon Celebration of the Arts competition. Winners will receive awards, cash prizes (up to $100), as well as public showings of their works, including the opportunity to exhibit at one or more area galleries. $10/entry, deadline: June 29.
• Chilean photojournalist Pilar Vergara’s new book due out next month aims to “capture transgender woman as they are – not as photographers often depict them.”
• A new camera developed by NASA can image underwater coral reefs from space by using “fluid lensing” technology.
• The Washington Post announced the winners of its annual squirrel photo contest (yes, that’s a thing!), and Exposed regular Angela Napili took third place.
• A new KFC ad campaign “photoshopped pieces of fried chicken into photos to make them look like fiery explosions and smoke/vapor plumes” and it’s kind of perfect.

• Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs opens today at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with a slideshow and panel discussion, 4-7 p.m.
• AP photographer Pablo Martinez Monsivais revisited parts of D.C. that experienced rioting after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 50 years ago and found a city showing few traces remaining from those days of rage.
• The Zeiss Photography Award winner has been announced, along with nine shortlisted photographers.
• The CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition also announced its winners, who were asked this year to focus on examining cities from a perspective of connectivity.
• Aidan Williams is literally taking his photography to new heights as he documents slackliners around the world.
• Adobe has revamped Lightroom and Camera Raw’s treatment of raw files. Some photographers are calling the update major.
• Tim Franco uses an old wooden 4×5 camera to photograph defectors from North Korea in “Unperson,” his new portrait series.

• Get your best bird pics into the Audubon Society contest by April 2. One winner will be featured on their magazine cover.
• National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale captured several moving images of the last moments of the last living male Northern White Rhino.
• The Momenta Workshop is offering big tuition awards—$1,000 and $500—to photographers who’d like to attend their Project Series: Working with Nonprofits. Apply here.
• This man took a photo with every mailbox in Seattle. (Because goals?)
• Bettina Rheims, best known for fashion and celebrity photography, sets up makeshift studios in female prisons to delve into another realm for her latest project.
• Looks like Google will acquire Lytro, creators of light-field technology cameras.
• Susan Ressler’s images of cookie-cutter corporate office life in 1970s America will be published in a new book next month.
• A timelapse of the solar eclipse from the cockpit of a U-2 is among the winners of Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine’s annual photo contest.
• Learn about FotoEvidence’s mission and co-founder, Svetlana Bachevanova, in this Q&A. She’ll be one of several photographers offering portfolio reviews during the photo festival in June. Sign up here.

In case you missed it, we announced the winning images from our 2018 photography contest earlier this week. Join us in congratulating the winners, and mark your calendars for the opening reception on Friday, May 11 when you can see all of the photos on display at Dupont Underground. Now, on to some links!

• See Renee Regan’s travel photography at the Wharf’s Martha Spak Gallery. Reception is tonight, 6-8 p.m.
• Then, head to the Leica Store DC for an opening reception of the new Metro Collective exhibit, “My Tears Will Stain,” 7-9 p.m. tonight.
• Speaking of Leica, a camera allegedly owned by Amelia Earhart is up for sale on eBay for approximately $70,000.
• WOMEN FOCUS is sponsoring free portfolio reviews on April 7 at the Newseum for women photography students and professionals with 5 years or less experience. Participation is limited to 80 registrants, and as of Thursday, they were still accepting applications for the waiting list. Reviews will be led by women editors and photographers from organizations such as National Geographic, NPR, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
• A wonderful moment in social media happened earlier this week, when someone tweeted a photo from a 1971 science conference and asked for help identifying the sole woman and person of color—and the only scientist not identified in the caption. Many people converged to help, including archivists at the Smithsonian, and, well, you’ll never guess what happened next…
• Photographs of The Beatles at their first concerts in the U.S. taken by a teenager are finding their way from his basement to an auction where they are expected to fetch over $300,000.
• The Focus on the Story International Photo Festival has issued a call for entries. Submit your images that tell compelling stories in two categories by April 17. Discounted early bird registration is also still available if you haven’t signed up yet.
• Photobombing, selfie sticks, and other photography firsts may have happened sooner than you thought.