- Today is the last day to enter your photos in the Anacostia River photography contest.
- Women in Ecuador are fighting to protect the Amazon, and Felipe Jacome has been taking their portraits.
- Baltimore photographer Jonathan Hanson “began photographing androgynous people, wanting viewers to let go of the usual filters and question our traditional standards of beauty — and identity.”
- Photographer Marcus Lyon has created composite photos that are anxiety-inducing. This 3-part series, BRICs, Exodus, and Timeout, is kind of post-apocalyptic feeling.
- Local company Momenta Workshops made Photoshelter’s list of the 50 Fantastic Photo Workshops Happening in 2015.
- “An instrument on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured its 100 millionth image of the sun. The instrument is the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, which uses four telescopes working parallel to gather eight images of the sun – cycling through 10 different wavelengths — every 12 seconds.” To celebrate their five years of photographing the sun, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center chose some of their favorite images and posted them on Flickr.
- Michelle Frankfurter has been documenting the journeys of Central Americans as they climb on trains to reach the U.S. border.
- Brent Stirton photographed the powerful story of two rural blind children in India who regained their sight.
- Simon Menner‘s Camouflage series depicts German army snipers hidden in various landscapes.
- A recent storm damaged a chain link fence bisecting Tijuana and San Diego, letting people jump back and forth between nations. Roc Morin documented kids playfully crossing the border.
- RIP local art listing: D.C. galleries are reporting getting an email from the Washington Post saying that it’s eliminated the galleries listing from the printed Weekend section. Now’s a good time for a reminder that for photography exhibit info you can subscribe to our calendar (link at bottom of page) and submit your events to us.
- And finally, some good news for tigers: India’s tiger population increased by 30%.