- Tonight head to an opening at Leica Store DC for “Bright Moments,” a photography tribute to influential jazz musicians by Jati Lindsay. 7 to 9 p.m.
- Submissions have been extended to June 12 for the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. “For the Record” contest soliciting images from the Kenilworth neighborhood. Even better: Entry fee for Ward 7 residents is totally waived.
- The Washington Post announced their 18th annual Travel Photo Contest.
- Getty shows off some of the best sports photography in a new exhibit at their London gallery.
- Paul Nicklen has spent decades documenting the Arctic and the Antarctic. “I want people to realize that ice is like the soil in the garden — without ice the polar regions cannot exist.”
- When you’re competing with a dozen other photographers in a bland room for the best shot, get above the fray. Advice heeded yesterday by Andrew Harnik from the Associated Press and Doug Mills from the New York Times, who both got powerful photos from the Comey hearing.
- Child bride photographer Stephanie Sinclair was honored with the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. yesterday. The award is named in memory of the German war photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner who was killed in Afghanistan in 2014.
- LIFE Magazine photographer Paul Shultzer was killed 50 years ago this week during the Six Day War. Time Magazine remembers his photographic legacy.
- If you missed this you’re probably the last one to see it: the lawn-mowing-in-a-tornado dad who inspired a thousand memes.
- The mouse-sized “giant weta” is making a comeback in New Zealand. Go ahead. Click on it.
- Okay we won’t leave you with that animal link. Here’s a chilly husky that can’t possibly be real.
