- Join Focus on the Story online tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. as they talk to photojournalists covering the pandemic with Xyza Cruz Bacani in the Philippines, Gabriele Galimberti in Italy, and David Dee Delgado and Jeenah Moon in New York City. The session is free, and you can register here.
- The Historical Society of Washington D.C. launched a new initiative, In Real Time, that invites you to reflect on this present moment of pandemic and disruption with the future in mind. You can share your personal experience in surveys and by sharing your photography.
- The 10 category winners of the Sony World Photography Awards have been announced and will now compete for the $5,000 overall prize.
- Olympus and Leica are now offering free online photography courses and sessions.
- The Professional Photographers of Canada released a statement asking that people stop doing “porch portrait” sessions, noting that it is not essential and there are variables outside of photographers’ control.
- Photojournalists and freelance photographers share how the pandemic has changed the work they are doing, from cancelled gigs to documenting those fighting the disease on the frontlines and incorporating a daily disinfecting routine.
- Sigma launched a #SigmaShotatHome photo/video contest that will be hosted online and run through June 26. A panel of Sigma professionals will select weekly winners, monthly winners from the weekly winners, and an overall contest grand prize winner.
- Some photographers are offering free high school senior sessions and “Portrait for Heroes” sessions that can be gifted to essential workers to show appreciation for the work they are doing.