- The Uncommon District published a collection of photos documenting the Black Lives Matter protests around the DMV area over the past couple of weeks.
- A photography teacher at the Baltimore School for the Arts wanted to give seniors a sense of normalcy by documenting the missed milestone of prom so he offered socially distanced portraits.
- Ernesto Bazan joins Focus on the Story today at noon for an online talk about his fourth book about Cuba, 25 de Noviembre, which he never expected to publish because until five years ago, he didn’t expect to return to the island where he had lived previously for 14 years before leaving with his family in 2006.
- Brisbane underwater photographer Jasmine Carey won the grand prize in the Hamdan International Photography award with her image of a humpback whale and its two-week old calf off the coast of Tonga.
- Winners of this year’s Sony World Photography Awards were announced earlier this week, selected from over 345,000 images submitted.
- Rey Lopez documented scenes of D.C.’s outdoor-only restaurants as Mayor Muriel Bowser’s stay-at-home order officially lifted two weeks ago.
- The British Journal of Photography returns to excerpts of interviews with Carrie Mae Weems, Dana Scruggs, Lola Flash, and Mark Sealy who invite us to look and consider—to acknowledge and act upon injustices that pervade the past and the present.
- On Wednesday, photojournalists Laurel Chor and Leah Millis will join Focus on the Story for a discussion about Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy and their coverage of the movement.
- Stories That Move You, a Saskatchewan LGBTQ photography project launching both virtually and in person, features eight people who are part of the community. Each image also includes a description and audio recording of the person telling the story behind the image in their own words.
- Wednesday’s Flickr Explore page featured a curated selection of photos from the Black Lives Matter movement that includes the recent protests, historical photos from the Civil Rights movement, and other demonstrations and protests over the years.