- Influential women photographers discuss what it means to be a photographer in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 30 at 4:00 p.m. for “Our City, Ourselves: Women Photograph Washington,” free and open to the public, pre-registration required.
- Fluorescent light, red dye, and gelatin are the ingredients of an emerging photography technique that allows scientists to better visualize the skeletons of animals.
- Art collector Daniel Wolf, who quietly amassed 25,000 photos for the J. Paul Getty Museum thereby jump-starting collectors’ interest in the medium, died earlier this year.
- The new exhibition Dreamland by Helene Schmitz opened this week at the House of Sweden. While they are currently closed to the public, virtual guided tours of the exhibition will be held on Zoom this weekend and next, and the exhibition will be on display through December.
- Join the International Center of Photography March 29 through April 2 for the online series, “The Rules Are Broken: A Year in Imagemaking,” which will explore the impact the pandemic, social movements, and a year lived through screens had on imagemaking.
- On April 1, Blake Gopnik will join author Andy Grundberg in a virtual launch celebration to discuss his new book that’s described as part memoir and part history on how photography became contemporary art.
- Photographers in the Somali Arts Foundation’s exhibition, Still Life, aim to take control of Somalia’s story and present a fuller, fairer portrayal of life in the country, as well as wanting it to become normal for women to take photos there.
- Eighteen years ago, 24 photographers agreed to document New Year’s Day for 24 years. Preview a selection of their work, which will be on display in London in one of the first exhibitions to reopen in the UK after coronavirus lockdowns.
- Karen Marshall began a project in 1985, documenting female friendship over the course of three decades, starting with the group’s junior year in high school.