- The studio of photographer Lynn Goldsmith has accused the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery of copyright violation when they distributed her image of Prince in a press release and made it freely available to download following the singer’s death last week.
- Were you quick enough to nab your ticket to see Raise/Raze at Dupont Underground? Maybe more dates will be added for this great photo op.
- This Saturday, 2-4pm, is the opening reception of group show The Art of Freedom: War, Peace, and Everything in Between at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, featuring work by veterans and active members of the military, including The Exposure Group’s George Tolbert.
- Last week the Maryland Historical Society launched baltimoreuprising2015.org: “a digital repository that seeks to preserve and make accessible original content that was captured and created by individual community members, grassroots organizations, and witnesses to the protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015.”
- If you live in Romania, your (clean) laundry may be airing on Instagram.
- On a visit to a downtown L.A. gun range, Jane Hilton chose not to focus on the people wielding the weapons, but on the targets instead.
- In Japan in the 1950s, there were contests to see who could deliver the most soba. On bicycles. In boxes stacked to the sky.
- Talking of bikes, the cycling museum in Roeselare, West Flanders, closed for lengthy renovations in 2015, so they rented a nearby deconsecrated church to host an exhibition.
- When science and photography collide.
- The flood of Kurdish refugees into Turkey compelled a teenager to ditch school and travel to the border with Syria, where he documented Kurdish fighters clashing with the Islamic State.
- Reuters photographer Bassam Khabieh wins the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club for his Syria coverage.
- Ospreys, king penguins, and yellow-billed oxpeckers: The 2016 Audubon Photography Award winners are a feather-covered joy.
- Our first nominee for the newly created Exposed DC “Best Use of a Stock Photo for an Animal Story” award.