Have you gotten tickets to our 10th anniversary photography show yet? Excellent local photography organizations Critical Exposure, Capital Photography Center, The Exposure Group, IGDC, HOIST, APA|DC, and Leica DC are joining us to celebrate the evening. We’ll have craft beer from the amazing folks at Bluejacket Brewery, and you can see 47 images of the metro area from photographers like Shamila Chaudhary, who also took that lovely image above. We’ll also be announcing the 5 winners of our Best in Show prize next week, so stay tuned! Now, here are you links for the week:
- Today is the last day to see DISTRICT, photographs of D.C. from the 1960s and 70s by Chris Earnshaw. See it before 4 p.m. at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (home to our photography show in March).
- How’s your photography really going? Find out by signing up for the Women Photojournalists of Washington seminar and portfolio review on March 5.
- Themes covered in this year’s Sony World Photography Organisation awards include the Ukraine conflict, Europe’s refugee crisis, and drone and underwater photography.
- A look inside photographer fees offered by some of the big publications.
- After losing a good friend to cancer, former Exposed winner Cynthia Sambro-Rier is offering her professional portrait services free to anyone in the DC-area with cancer who would like photos of themselves and their families.
- Smithsonian Magazine and Air & Space Magazine both announced the finalists of their annual photo contests this week.
- Stacy Kranitz writes the best captions for her documentary photos on Instagram.
- A shipwrecked fishing boat in northern California that had been left to photogenically decay got some help last week from a photographer who allegedly spun hot wool to light a photograph and started a fire that took three hours to put out.
- The world of horse racing is the focus of Alan Crowhurst, 2015 Sports Photographer of the Year at the British Sports Journalists’ Association awards.
- Photo op alert: Giant glowing bunnies are coming to The Yards on Saturday.
- One word: PhoDOGraphers.