February is just around the corner; if you haven’t yet, be sure to submit to our annual photography contest before midnight on Wednesday, January 31 to be considered for our 18th annual show & celebration of local photography! Photographers of all levels are welcome to submit, so tell your artsy friends too!
- The National Gallery of Art is showing two historic, archival documentaries tomorrow starting at 2:00 p.m. in conjunction withe the Dorothea Lang exhibit. Then, on Sunday at noon, there will be a conversation with award-winning artists discussing their social documentary and portrait photography practice and connections to Dorothea Lang’s work.
- Join StreetMeetDC tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. in Chinatown for their first meet of the year.
- A rare portrait of a crab-eating macaque swimming in the ocean won this year’s Ocean Art underwater photography contest.
- Photographer and whiskey fan Ernie Button discovered dried remains of single malt scotch in the bottom of a glass makes for an interesting photographic subject.
- Three African photographers are celebrating the birthplace of coffee for Lavazza’s annual calendar.
- WPOW members have until the end of the month to submit for the Butterfly Grant to receive funds supporting new or in-progress photo, video, or multimedia projects.
- Winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year awards take us around the world, from the wildebeest migration in Kenya and volcanic eruptions in Iceland to shamanic rituals in Siberia.
- A photographer in Sweden captured an extremely rare green flash coming from Venus.