• Momenta is offering tuition scholarships to photographers for its upcoming Project Puerto Rico workshop.
• Artists can apply now to participate in Superfine!, a new art fair coming to Union Market this October, and which promises that over half the exhibitors will be from the metro area.
• Photographers aged 18 and under can submit their images to Glen Echo Photoworks Gallery competition until July 13.
• Audubon announced the winners of its 2018 photography awards, and one super-kid swept all three youth categories.
• How does National Geographic get up close and personal photos of animals in the wild? With custom-made Crittercams, of course.
• A strange new exhibit explores painter Winslow Homer’s inspiration by connecting it to the burgeoning Daguerreotype techniques being developed during his lifetime.
• High speed photography isn’t just for sports—it can also capture exploding paint balloons to crashing waves and beyond.
• Portrait photographer Donald Maclellan did his own version of Where Are They Now by tracking down his old classmates 35 years later. (If you happen to be in Mallaig you can visit Harry Potter movie locations and also Maclellan’s exhibit.)

• The Focus on the Story International Photo Festival kicked off last night and there’s tons to take in this weekend. See the full schedule of workshops, photo walks, talks and book signings by big names like Martin Parr, an exhibit featuring Exposed alum Chris Suspect, and more. Tonight, find your fellow photography lovers at the opening party at Gallery O on H. Register here.
• Head to Steadfast Supply in Navy Yard on Sunday for a camera workshop with D.C. photographer, educator, and Exposed alum, Amanda Archibald, 1 to 3 p.m. $75.
• Enter the 2018 APA Awards in a slew of categories. Open to all, members get a discount.
• Submit your work to be featured in the first issue of The Khollected, a D.C.-based art and design magazine.
• The two biggest auction houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, are diversifying the photography they use for art, which means we’ll likely see fewer young women being used as props to sell things.
• With primary season well under way, New York Times photographers were out this week taking portraits and talking to voters.
• A photographer who toured with Prince talked to Getty Images about the late singer’s favorite photos of himself.
• A year after Ryan Kelly took his Pulitzer-Prize-winning photo of Marcus Martin after being hit by a car during the Charlottesville rally, the two came together for a much better reason: Kelly photographed Martin’s wedding to Marissa Blair, who was also present that day, just out of frame.

Our 12th annual Exposed DC exhibit is a wrap! A huge thanks to everyone who came out, and to all the photographers who shared their love of the D.C. area with us through images. If you saw a photograph you liked, you can buy a fine art print of it online here. Feel free to email us for more information. Sign up for our newsletter here. Share your photography with us all year on Flickr or by using the hashtag #exposeddc on Instagram. Keep your eyes peeled soon for our June happy hour!

• The Washington Gardener Photo Show opens Sunday, June 3 at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens with a reception, 2-3:30 p.m, free to attend. The 17 winning photos will be on display through July 31.
• Mark Seliger talks with NPR about his desire to “get something that no one else has gotten” when photographing well-known figures.
• Black D.C. natives respond to Washingtonian’s “I’m Not A Tourist” campaign with counter photo shoot.
• United/Divided 2 opens at Glen Echo Photoworks on June 3, 6 to 8 p.m.
• Instagram is rolling out a mute feature. We won’t tell if you won’t.
• L.A. Times photographers head to RuPaul’s DragCon and it’s just as vivid as you imagine.
• Foxes are people! Well, no, but they’re pretty expressive when Ossi Saarinen finds them.
• Women and minority photographers are using digital spaces to their advantage.
• When you set up your remote camera too close too the rocket flames the results are…as expected.

Get your advanced tickets to our huge celebration featuring the winners of the 2018 Exposed DC photography contest. Join us at Dupont Underground on May 11 for this great display of local images.

• SmugMug just bought Flickr and vows to revitalize the service. Fast Company thinks it’s positioning to be a real competitor to Instagram as a safe place for photographers.
• Find out a bit more about Diane Arbus’ portfolio, “A box of ten photographs,” and then go see it for yourself at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
• Learn how to begin collecting photography with this lecture at Glen Echo Photoworks this Sunday, 4 p.m. Free but registration requested.
• A U.S. appeals court has ruled that animals cannot sue for copyright infringement.
• Last Friday was the eight year anniversary of the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
• Here’s the winning shot that got Noor Ahmed Gelal a food photographer of the year award.
• Paul Morse talks to New York Magazine about his photo of four presidents and four first ladies.
• Check out the world’s fastest camera car: a $200,000 Lamborghini with over $500,000 of modifications. Even with all the camera gear, its still got a top speed of 201 mph.
• Cosmos magazine looks back at how John William Draper used science to develop early photographic methods.
• The winners of the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards were announced this week.
• Do turtles have good table manners?

Get your tickets now for our huge May 11 opening of the 12th annual Exposed DC Photography Show! You don’t want to miss the 40 winning photographs displayed and projected throughout the Dupont Underground.

• Head to the National Gallery of Art this afternoon and tomorrow for a program on history, photography, and race in the South.
• National Geographic’s special monthly happy hour on April 19 will focus on Unexpected Origins, 5:30-8 p.m., $20.
• Dayanita Singh, frustrated with the conventional gallery format, has taken to creating portable “pocket museums” instead for her latest exhibition.
• George Rodriguez talks about his experience with photography of two very different types in L.A.
• Elaborately made-up toy cars are the star of Carlos Hernandez’s recreated movie scenes.
• WTOP reviews the biography of Berenice Abbott out this week by Julia Van Haaften, founding curator of the New York Public Library’s photography collection.
• If you ❤ analog photography you will probably ❤ this mini-documentary tribute to it.
• It’s plastic as far as the eye can see in this series by conservation photographer Pete Oxford.
• “The key to storm chasing is to not end up being chased by the storm.”