- This is how you build a grand photography collection for a new African-American museum.
- Photo op: The next two Saturdays, October 8 and 15, 11:30am-2pm, head to the Kogod Courtyard to watch The Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company (Burgess is the National Portrait Gallery’s first choreographer-in-residence) rehearse for their upcoming performance “Margin,” which will also be in the Courtyard on October 28.
- America’s Test Kitchen’s Director of Photography discusses the behind-the-scenes shooting of 1,000+ photos for Bread Illustrated.
- Go see Adrienne Moumin‘s hand-printed silver gelatin photographs at Hill Center Galleries. The exhibit opened October 6; attend a reception October 19.
- A golf photo? Yes, a golf photo.
- More in the Darwin Photographer awards: “Tourists in Indonesia ignored instructions to flee an erupting volcano so they could continue taking photos, the country’s disaster agency has said.” Friends, please know there is a special place in hell for people who put emergency services personnel in danger so that they can post the perfect Instagram.
- The deadline for the FotoWeekDC 2016 competition is tomorrow.
- Sean Graesser’s vivid bird portraits imitate life in the style of John James Audubon.