Don’t forget you can check out the 10th Anniversary Exposed DC Photography Show for free this evening from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Carnegie Library. The Historical Society of Washington D.C. will provide a cash bar, and we’ll be offering a range of Exposed items for sale. If you can’t make it out tonight, you have one more week to plan your visit — gallery hours are Saturday and Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., then we’ll close this year’s show next Friday, March 25, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., with a cash bar (and perhaps some celebratory cake? Mmm cake.). Now, onto this week’s links:
- Dig In is a new, local news site serving up longform journalism. Photojournalist and Exposed alum Andy DelGiudice is one of its creators.
- Tickets are now on sale for the LOOK3 photography festival in Charlottesville in June.
- IGDC announced a contest for photographers to have their photos of the Dupont Circle neighborhood used in a walking tour guide. Deadline: March 25.
- These two photo frames show how close a boy came to getting a bat in the face during a Pirates v. Braves spring training game — and the man next to him with serious Jedi movies.
- The internet can’t get enough of this woman’s angry Splash Mountain photo.
- Staff at Harvard College Observatory will spend the next year trying to salvage century-old photographic plates, taken by astronomers at Harvard and around the world, that were submerged in water when a pipe burst in January.
- It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for its 2016 Individual Photographer’s Fellowships program. Grants of up to $10,000 each will be awarded to artists working in photography and photo-based art.
- These photos of sand art around the world are gorgeous.
- You have plenty of time to book your flight to London to see more than 150 images from Elton John’s enviable photography collection when they go on exhibit at the Tate Modern in November.
- Instagram is switching its feed from chronological to best posts first. #filteredgram
- WIRED on why Flickr’s latest announcement signals the death of the longstanding photo-sharing service.
- In Senegal, wrestlers are more famous and earn more than footballers, using rituals, potions and amulets to secure victory.
- A sea turtle eating a jellyfish and so many more great images by the Underwater Photographers of the Year.