Thank you to everyone who joined us last weekend for our artist talk and end of summer party! Special thanks to the artists who joined us and shared about their work, to Lost Origins Gallery for partnering with us on this event and hosting, and to Reboot Beverages and the Girl & the Vine for providing us with awesome beverages and being great company to boot!

• The Wildlife Photographer of the Year shortlist has people wondering if a bonobo is really cuddling a mongoose and singing the praises of an eight year old’s photo of a stag in the snow. Winners will be announced next month.
• Hasselblad is teasing a new product launch happening next week; the last time it released a new camera was 2020.
• Anthony Cavo, a certified appraiser of art and antiques, has collected old photographs for more than 50 years. He compiled a collection of 19th and early 20th century images of people with their dogs.
• An image of a humpback whale carcass being circled on the ocean floor is the overall winner of the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition.
• Go behind the scenes in old shearing sheds through the photos of a sheep shearer turned photographer.
• Spots are still open for James Corbett’s sessions “Making Travel Magic: Iceland and Beyond” on September 10 and “Light Paint Some Trolleys” on September 17.

Join us tomorrow night at Lost Origins Gallery for an artist talk and end of summer party! Hear from some of the photographers featured in our annual show and find out about upcoming shows and projects at the gallery. Please note this event will be from 7-10 p.m. at the indoor gallery space at 3110 Mt Pleasant St NW. Images will be projected during the discussion, and the full exhibit can still be viewed in the alley next to Ellē.

• Local photographer Mariah Miranda (who has documented several of our events beautifully) is having a business anniversary party this Sunday at Eaton House, 3-8 p.m. with a workshop, portrait pop-up, and a reception. The event is free but registration is required.
• Exposed alum Alain Gutierrez will be leading a Washington Photo Safari session at the Bealeton Flying Circus Air Show this Sunday at 1:00 p.m., $129.
• Two astrophotographers teamed up to produce a photo of the moon made up of over 200,000 shots; the editing process took them over nine months.
• As part of the Spark Training Program outreach, Wildfire Media shares funding opportunities for artists and photographers.
• The Royal Meteorological Society announced the latest photos to make the shortlist for the Weather Photographer of the Year.
• An original print of Yousuf Karsh’s portrait of Winston Churchill is missing after staff at a hotel in Ottawa realized that someone had swapped it for a fake.
• NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope does it again; this time showcasing Jupiter in greater detail than previously seen.
• A Tennessee couple’s engagement photos taken at an Olive Garden garnered so much attention that the restaurant will be sending them on an all-expenses paid trip to Italy after the wedding.

Join Exposed DC and Lost Origins Gallery on Saturday, August 27 at 7:00 p.m. for an artist talk and end of summer party! This event will take place at the indoor gallery at 3110 Mt Pleasant St NW. We’ll have the images projected there as we chat with the photographers featured in the show, and you can still catch the annual show up in the alley next to Ellē as well.

• Join PortraitMeetDC tomorrow from 3-6 p.m. at Long Bridge Park in Arlington.
• The iPhone Photography Awards announced the winners of their 15th annual competition.
• An award-winning image is at the center of a debate about what constitutes authorship when creating an image with more than one person involved.
• The ColorPro Awards is accepting entries for their breakthrough theme through September 16.
• Profoto is hosting an image critique and contest to see how photographers use their lights to create portraits. Joe McNally will select five images submitted to review and select one to win some gear.
• Registration for fall and winter classes at Photoworks is now open, with sessions starting as soon as next month.

• Several Northern Virginia arts agencies are forming a designated multi-jurisdictional alliance to boost the region’s arts and culture scene.
• The overall winner of the World Sports Photography Awards 2022, David Gray, captured an image of a butterfly resting on tennis player Naomi Osaka’s fingertips during a match.
• Presidential photographer Pete Souza will be at Sixth & I for his book tour on October 2. Ticket options include in-person and virtual, with or without a signed copy of the book.
• PortraitMeetDC will host a meet on August 20 from 3-6 p.m. at Long Bridge Park.
• B&H Photo’s OPTIC conference is heading west to Monterey, California in November with presentations, a trade expo, photo critiques, and a whale watching experience.
• Winners of the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year competition have been announced.
• French scientist Étienne Klein tweeted a photo of chorizo with a description that it was Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. He claims it was a joke, but the Internet did not get it for some time.

We have a new date for our artist talk and summer celebration at Lost Origins Gallery; mark your calendars for Saturday, August 27 from 7-10 p.m. and stay tuned for more updates!

• Be sure to catch “Behind the Loom: The Legacy, Heritage & Resilience of Navajo Weaving” at Lost Origins Gallery before it closes Sunday.
• The National Portrait Gallery in London revealed the shortlist for the Taylor Wessing Prize with the winner to be announced in October.
• Canon released its second quarter 2022 financial results with a Q&A section addressing the brand’s future in photography.
• Registration is open for two exciting in-person workshops taught by Exposed DC alum James Corbett and sponsored by the Professional Photographers of America: one focused on travel photography featuring Icelandic adventures and another hands-on session with light painting and restored trolleys, limited to just four attendees.
• With a month to go before the competition closes, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards released the funniest photos submitted thus far.
• Engineers at MIT have repurposed a 19th-century photography technique to make stretchy, color-changing films.
• A wedding photography company declared bankruptcy, leaving hundreds of couples without wedding photos or a photographer for an upcoming wedding.