- Tonight at 7 p.m., go to the opening of “A Day in the Life of Miles Davis,” with photography by Glen Craig at the Leica Store DC.
- See Jo Ann Tooley’s beautiful black and white images in a new exhibit at the Torpedo Factory through April 24.
- Frequent Exposed alum Joe Flood wrote a lovely retrospective after our 10th anniversary exhibit.
- Gaze into the heart of the Milky Way in the Hubble’s latest mind-boggling image.
- Petapixel has a round up of photography April Fools jokes.
- A column in Aperture Magazine asks if photographers have done enough to depict “the enormity and the suffering of the current refugee crisis.”
- Mum of English bloke who had photo taken with Egyptair hijacker is very angry that people are calling it a “selfie”.
- Getty Images and D&AD present their Next Photographer Award shortlist, featuring eighteen up-and-coming photographers from around the world.
- After a two year study, the American Press Institute finds general patterns in what works to attract and hold the attention of digital readers. “Overall, photos (or audio or video clips) boost engagement by 19 percent — but the effect is selective.”
- An island in the Bahamas where tourists and pigs play together on the sand and in the water.
- The most memorable presidential pets in recent years have been dogs and cats, but looking back a little further in time turns up some unusual critters lurking around the White House grounds.
- Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza took this brilliant portrait of the Easter Bunny.