See Exposed DC on the big screen! Let’s keep our 15th exhibition going with a projection night at Metrobar, featuring the 2021 contest winners. Join us on Saturday, September 25 at 7 p.m. to celebrate local photography at this outdoor establishment that is all about keeping things local!

• Photoworks Gallery is hosting a gallery reception tonight from 6-8 p.m. for “Under the Influence,” which celebrates the influence and work of Frank P. “Tico” Herrera, a founding member of Photoworks who taught at Glen Echo for more than 45 years.
• Exposed DC is seeking new Board members; we want creative and enthusiastic minds to figure out how the next chapter of the Exposed DC photography community can be as vibrant as the last 15 years. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. (Psst, you don’t have to be a photographer!)
• Shin Sugino travelled to Nova Scotia to recreate a tintype portrait taken 45 years earlier in the same space that is a nod to the original tintype parlour of 1867.
• Sigma and Samy’s Camera are hosting a live online water drop photography workshop on September 14 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.
• Take a peek at some of this year’s shortlisted images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
• Emilio Morenatti, a photographer who lost his leg in Afghanistan in 2009, traveled across the country to talk with five Paralympians.
• The National Museum of Women in the Arts announces recent major collection acquisitions, including works by Diane Smith and Mary Ellen Mark.
• The finalists for this year’s Ocean Photography Awards have just been released with winners to be announced over the coming days.
• Check out the latest photography awards and opportunities in PHmuseum’s roundup.

See Exposed DC on the big screen! Join us on Saturday, September 25 at 7:00 p.m. at Metrobar for a special projection night, featuring the 2021 contest winners. We’ll celebrate local photography at this outdoor establishment that is all about keeping things local!

• Exposed DC is seeking new Board members; we want creative and enthusiastic minds to figure out how the next chapter of the Exposed DC photography community can be as vibrant as the last 15 years. Join us! (Psst, you don’t have to be a photographer!) APPLY NOW
• Nicoló Filippo Rosso documents how mass migration and its ripple effects are upending lives across Latin America.
• Exposed alum Geoff Livingston is hosting a series of six free workshops at the Strongin Collection throughout September.
• An exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum documents East Baltimore, decades before the dawn of the selfie era, as captured by Linda Rich.
• “FINGIR: Somewhere Between,” part of a project showcasing artists from the Central American diaspora, opens tonight at Dupont Underground. Reserve tickets online, $8 + fees.
• Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, the Japanese American photographer known as Hiro, died earlier this month at the age of 90.
• Photoworks issued a call for entries for an upcoming online exhibition, “Official | Unofficial DC!” to be juried by Sharon Farmer. The entry fee is $25 and includes up to 5 images with a deadline of September 15.
• Wildlife photographer Ajar Setiadi captures his pet frogs playing in his garden, even using flowers as umbrellas.

Exposed DC is looking for new Board members! Are you interested in the future of photography? Do you love art events and art programming? Do you love living in the DMV? We want creative and enthusiastic minds to figure out how the next chapter of the Exposed DC photography community can be as vibrant as the last 15 years. Join us! (Psst, you don’t have to be a photographer!) APPLY NOW

• A federal judge has found that a part of Georgia’s new election law that broadly prohibits the photographing of a voted ballot is likely unconstitutional.
• Finalists have been announced for the Northern Photography Prize, a competition established by a crime author who has set many of her murder mysteries in the region of England.
• Redeat Wondemu spent much of her childhood in Addis Ababa and returned as an adult to start a project photographing the people there as they are.
• Join Exposed alum Kirth Bobb and District Camera and Imaging for a webinar on DC street photography on August 31 at 6 p.m. Registration required.
• Black Women Photographers is holding a Haiti Relief Print Sale, with all proceeds going to Ayiti Demen/FOKAL, a local organization working directly to help with the relief.
• The third annual Leica Women Foto Project Award will grant three photographers $10,000 and Leica gear to help complete an in-progress, personal photo project that bears witness to humanity, expressed through the female point of view. The call for entries is open through October 8.
• Register for fall classes and workshops at Photoworks before they begin in September.
• A bright red jellyfish spotted at a depth of 700 meters may be an undescribed species.

• The People’s Archive has acquired and cataloged the 1,900-plus photo collection of Chip Py as part of the Library’s Go-Go archive.
• Research shows that taking too many pictures can harm the brain’s ability to retain memories but also that being more intentional about the photos we take can help.
• The Smithsonian American Art Museum purchased rare photographs dating from the 1840s to the mid-1920s, including daguerreotypes made by three of the most prominent Black photographers of the19th century: James P. Ball, Glenalvin Goodridge, and Augustus Washington.
• The Event Horizon Telescope—a planet-scale array of ground-based radio telescopes—has obtained the first image of a supermassive black hole from more than a petabyte of data collected.
• One of the last photographs taken of Susan B. Anthony is going up for auction along with hundreds of other items found in an attic photography studio that had been abandoned for decades.
• National Geographic looks into the centuries-long struggle for Afghanistan through historic and modern images.
• For the past 38 years, photographer Peter Adams has photographed and interviewed hundreds of iconic photographers from all around the world for his ambitious project that launched recently on Kickstarter.
• Zenfolio is giving away over $1,000,000 worth of subscriptions of their portfolio plan to photography students.
• MPB unveiled the Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame Class of 2021 inductees yesterday, voted on by visual storytellers.

Join us on August 19 at 6:00 p.m. for a virtual roundtable. We look forward to catching up with you and seeing photos from your vacations or staycations. Register here and check your confirmation email for details on how to upload your image and join the session next week.

• View the winning images of the 15th annual Washington Gardener Photo Contest at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens through August 30, open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• The Times’ pictures of the month for July include photos from around the world and a few words on how they came about.
• PhotoWorks is offering a new, free virtual program called “Photo Matters,” beginning August 22 at 10:00 a.m. It’ll be a Zoom where people can hang out and discuss all matters photographic.
• Sigma Ambassador Anabel Dflux will be sharing tips and tricks for shooting concerts on August 25 at 7:00 p.m. during a live webinar with PROCAM.
• The International Center of Photography in New York has announced David E. Little as its next executive director. 
• Aerial photographs of houses in Ecuador convey the relationship between the buildings and their contexts using drones.
• An essay explores questions of privacy invasion by comparing paparazzi photography to wildlife photography.
• A soon-to-be-released documentary celebrates the legacy of Picture Post, the highly influential magazine which shaped perceptions of British life during and after World War II.