• 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.

We’re excited to announce an extended run for the 2022 Annual Exposed DC Photography Show at Lost Origins Outside! The show was originally slated to come down this Sunday, but it’ll stay up a bit longer; more updates to follow soon. We also want to congratulate our #2022XDC giveaway winners, with the Capital Photographer Center gift certificate going to @bytes.of.life and the SpyderX Pro monitor calibrator going to @rickruggles2!

• You’ve probably already seen the stunning images from the James Webb telescope; this site compares these newer images with ones taken by the Hubble.
• The 2022 Audubon Photography Awards includes a Top 100, spreading the love beyond the eight official winners and five honorable mentions.
• Photoworks is compiling memories and condolences for fine art photographer, mentor, and educator Bruce Falkinburg who passed away earlier this month.
• Join APA | DC tomorrow from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for a photo assistant workshop in Hyattsville, $5 for APA members and $15 for non-members.
• Egypt has relaxed their street photography ban, while restrictions remain in place for photographing children and commercial photography.
• Leica Camera announced the twelve finalists for the 42nd annual Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) photography competition.
• Petworth Neighborhood Library is hosting a photo contest for kids ages 5-12. Entries are due by July 29 at 6 p.m., and winning photos will be displayed in the library.

• APA | DC is launching a new grant for emerging and established photographers who self-identify as LGBTQIAP+. The deadline to apply is July 20.
• Leica is expanding “THE WORLD DESERVES WITNESSES” campaign with an open call for submissions in two categories. Entry is free with a deadline of September 30.
• “American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams,” is on view at the National Gallery of Art through October 2.
• View the 2022 shortlist for the London’s Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
• Visual artist Mário Macilau captures social and environmental challenges in Mozambique, stating photography is the language he chooses to express himself and what he sees around him.
• Paul Killeen captured ghostly flying birds to win the World Landscape Photography competition.
• Profoto users can take part in the soft vs hard light challenge for a chance to win a lighting kit worth $2,000.