• PortraitMeetDC will be gathering in Georgetown Sunday from 3-6 p.m.
• The 5th Annual Leica Women Foto Project Award is accepting entries through November 7 with a focus on themes of reclamation, resilience, and rebirth. Four winners will receive $10,000 and a Leica SL2-S camera set.
• Exposed alum Jeffrey Morris organized a multi-media show with Art All Night and Shaw Main Streets that will be held September 30 from 7:00p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
• The 12th annual WPOW Seminar + Portfolio Review will be held in person at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University on October 21, 2023. Get tickets for the whole day ($175 for general admission or $100 for students) or just the closing party ($35).
• The beauty and mysteries of the universe unfold through the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in the UK.
• A cabinet full of Kodachrome slides was discovered lying on the sidewalk in a San Francisco neighborhood; the 920 slides within show the city undergoing changes in the 1960s and beyond.
• Leica Store DC is celebrating 11 years with an anniversary event on October 26 featuring amazing photographers some of which have ties to Exposed!
• Rock’s “accidental photographer” Henry Diltz received a lifetime achievement prize, the Icon award at the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards.
• Atsuyuki Ohshima photographed a monkey enjoying a free ride on the back of a deer in a Japanese forest.

Have you checked out the MVT Photo Walk yet? The second exhibit launched earlier this month. If you’d like to be a part of a future exhibit, we’re excited to announce an open call for entries. Find our more and submit here by November 1.

• Register now to join artist Wang Qingsong in conversation with Hirshhorn curator Betsy Johnson on September 28 as they discuss the creation of his heavily staged photographs and the use of photography as a tool to comment on culture and society.
• Yelp is seeking its first-ever official food photographer to serve a two-month term and receive $10,000.
• Exposed alum Julian Thomas is hosting a hands-on photography workshop on mastering the essentials of artificial lighting on September 23 from 12:00-4:00 p.m., $250.
• Fine art photographer David Teran is running a Kickstarter campaign for a book featuring 100+ ballerinas photographed on black and white film with a Hasselblad.
• The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) will reopen to the public on October 21 with free admission and festivities for opening weekend. Tickets are available now for NMWA members and on September 19 for non-members. Exhibits on display will include early works by pioneering photographers Yevonde and Berenice Abbott.
• SanDisk presents the winners of The Mono Awards, a celebration of the best black and white photography that is now in its fifth year.
• StreetMeet is heading on a retreat! Reserve your spot for a 3-night getaway in Shenandoah, VA from October 15-18, $450.
• Photo Artfolio launched its inaugural online exhibit, “Lightvisions,” with more exhibits and open calls on the horizon.

• PortraitMeetDC is collaborating with a vintage pop-up market at Union Market throughout the weekend.
• Jaan Roose battled high winds at the Katara Towers in Doha, Qatar to take a slackline world record as Volodya Voronin captured it all in photos.
• The New Yorker explores the hunt for visual evidence of unidentified flying objects over the decades.
• Maryland PPA added a beginner digital painting class to their upcoming program. Sessions will be held online on August 29 (instruction and practice) and September 19 (Q&A after using techniques independently), free for MDPPA members and $29 for all others.
• The 2023 World Sports Photography awards showcase sports of all sorts.
• A new USPS collection enlarges the world’s tiniest lifeforms to the size of a postage stamp.
• A rare fire tornado, or fire whirl, was filmed by a member of the British Colombia Wildfire Service in Canada last week.

• Join PortraitMeetDC tomorrow from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at Union Market.
• Grumpy cat loses Comedy Pet Photo Awards to sneak-attack kitten.
• Also on the animal front but less cute: wildlife photographer Tim Smith captured a picture of an alligator launching itself out of water.
• A collection of aerial photographs taken during the Second World War have been opened to the public for the first time.
• Exposed alum Robb Hill is teaching a 6-week narrative landscape course with Photoworks starting September 7 with a total cost of $400. Lots of other classes are starting up soon, so be sure to check the full schedule.
• A glowing, prismatic nervous system of a sea star won the Global Image of the Year Scientific Light Microscopy Award.
• A major Chinese photo agency is demanding an astrophotographer pay $12,000 to use his own photos after he posted his work to social media platform Weibo.
• Roland L. Freeman, a resident of the District and photographer who documented Black life and culture for more than 50 years, died at 87.