- Focus on the Story will be awarding a $2,000 grant and a Fujifilm XT-4 gear package to a single photographer to help them begin and complete a community-driven project that tells a compelling and impactful visual story. Proposals are being accepted through June 18.
- Sign up for the community celebration closing event on May 20 for “Our City, Ourselves: Women Photograph Washington,” an online exhibit organized by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities. You can also participate by posting pictures from across the District on social media with the hashtag #OurCityCAH; a slideshow will be shared during the closing event.
- On the B&H Photography Podcast, Gulnara Samoilova discusses street photography and the new book she edited that profiles one hundred women street photographers from around the world.
- The Portrait Gallery is hosting an online presentation, “Enduring Images: Enslaved People and Photography in the Antebellum South” on May 11 at 5 p.m., free with registration required.
- Peek inside Italy’s ghost villages and abandoned houses believed to number in the thousands.
- PetaPixel rounds up the best smartphones for photography in 2021, broken down into six categories.
- This year’s Nikon surf photo of the year award goes to Stu Gibson for his image featuring surfer Tyler Hollmer Cross taking on Shipsterns in south-east Tasmania.
- A mirrored ceiling and tile floor turn a bookstore into an immersive M.C. Escher-style illusion.