Thank you to everyone who joined us for happy hour last week and congratulations again to the winners of this year’s photo contest! We look forward to celebrating with everyone at the show this summer, as well as getting back to regular happy hours and other social gatherings. It’s always great spending time together with this amazing photography community.
- Maryland PPA has announced their annual photography conference. Join them for three days of peer connection and instruction in wedding, commercial, fine art, and senior portraiture. Find out more about this April 11-13 event and register at https://marylandppa.com/24MDPPA.
- Head to the National Gallery of Art tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. to hear photojournalism students reflect on Dorothea Lange’s work and career in light of their own photographic practices and research inquiries today.
- Thirty finalists have been chosen for the Sony World Photography Awards 2024 with winners to be announced in April.
- Vanity Fair photographer David Seidner is being honored with a proper one-man retrospective as part of the International Center for Photography’s 50th anniversary.
- Critical Exposure is bringing back Stories for Action, a 10-week program for high school-aged youth interested in exploring social justice issues through photography. Sessions start March 5; submit the interest form.
- Annie Leibovitz traveled to seven countries documenting different ideas of family for a project with IKEA. In addition to taking photographs, she also selected six photography mentees to guide in their own projects about home.
- Photographers from around the world submitted roughly 6,500 photographs for 13 contest categories vying for the title of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.