• Petworthians: Your neighborhood D.C. public library wants to see the pictures you’ve taken of your community to make a “visual time capsule” from summer 2016. You can submit your photos through Flickr, and if you need help getting started, you can sign up for one of two free street photography classes on June 11 and 25, 10am-12pm, taught by Exposed DC alum Amanda Archibald. A showcase of the photography will be on August 11. Read more about DCPL’s Open Stories project here.
• The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Brookland is holding its annual photo contest. Visit the church and gardens and submit your photos by June 30 (non-professionals only).
• More street photography classes: Register with the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and learn from WCP staff photographer Darrow Montgomery for $30 on June 11, 10am-12:30pm.
• Go to the opening of “When Living is a Protest” with images by Ruddy Roye next Thursday, 7pm, at Leica Store DC.
• German photographer Arnold Genthe shows us 100-year-old Japan. These photos are now part of a larger collection at the Library of Congress.
• Nepalese girls are fighting the stigma around menstruation with photography.
• New Yorker has a piece on Jane Evelyn Atwood and her photos detailing the sensory experiences of blind children.
• The Louvre and Musée d’Orsay closed temporarily this week to move priceless artworks to higher ground as the threat of flooding from the Siene gets worse. See a gallery of the flooding around Paris in The Independent.
• WIRED is hiring a photography writer who can work remotely.
• A gallery of strange moments from the inauguration of Switzerland’s Gotthard tunnel, the “longest and deepest in the world.”
• Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren is pissed that NASA can’t get her pictures from Pluto instantaneously.
• “It’s as though photography has been sublimated to a necessary part of the total.” Career photography professor laments trend of work requiring too much explanation to be understood.
• Photo on Popville of Maryland congressman’s car sporting Lyft sticker leads to stories in the Washington Post and on CNN.
• Run, don’t waddle! A thousand Indian Runner ducks enjoying their pest control duties at a South African vineyard.

• Our Featured Instagrammers post has moved to Thursday! We’ll send a few of our favorites out in our new weekly newsletter with Friday Links. Tag your photos #exposeddc to get featured.
• The Corcoran is suffering more layoffs, including full-time instructors in the photography program, as it continues its integration into George Washington University.
• See South Korea’s Soomin Ham’s “retro images” at the Multiple Exposures Gallery in Alexandria. She talked to WCP’s Louis Jacobson about how she creates her work.
• See photographic studies on the aftermath of radiation in Chernobyl and Fukushima at Goethe-Institut. More great coverage from Jacobson in the WCP.
• A couple local photographers have reported being hit up with this text scam, so we’re passing on the warning. (Five minutes after sharing this with our team, our own James Calder got the text.)
• Sign up for one of the street photography workshops by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. The first one is this Saturday, focusing on architecture.
• Photographs soon won’t count against Twitter’s 140-character limit.
• I Remember California.
• Photographer Mark Hoelscher went out with the D.C. Department of Public Works for the “Great Graffiti Wipeout.”
• The New York Times features Exposed alum Monique Atherton’s work on age, sexuality, and worth.
• Malcom X was born yesterday in 1925. The Museum of Modern Art shares Gordon Parks’ 1963 photo from its collection.
• Advice for young photographers on how to capture the fringes of society.
• The only way to end a week: 10 great wins for endangered species.

Umbrellas in Motion, 18th and I Street NW by Britt Leckman

Tonight! Join us for our May photographer happy hour and the opening reception for our 10-year retrospective of winning Exposed DC images in the Crystal City underground Fotowalk. They’re printed huge and beautiful, and we’ll have an open bar with snacks courtesy the fine folks at the Crystal City BID. There will be a handful of other art openings to poke your head into, a mural unveiling, and an open house at the Synetic Theater. Just hop off the metro and turn left into the walkway and you can’t miss it. Our happy hour is right in the middle of the exhibit walk.

• Portraits of H Street: Then & Now opens tomorrow, May 7 at Gallery O on H from 7-11pm. The show closes May 13.
• Photo op: The annual Funk Parade will groove down U Street this Saturday.
• D.C. announced plans this week for 15 pop-up art projects around the city.
• 33 rescued circus lions were airlifted from Peru and Colombia to South Africa.
• Your dog doesn’t like your hugs, according to one expert: “The Internet contains many pictures of happy people hugging what appear to be unhappy dogs.”
• Thursday was International Astronaut Day, so here’s a gallery of real astronauts from the AP and fictional astronauts on 500px.
• The Marine Corps is investigating whether it misidentified one of the six men shown raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in February 1945, the moment captured in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph.
• The Colossal has picked some of its favorites among the entrants for National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest.
• “When the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopens on May 14, its entire third floor will be devoted to photography.”
• Instagram presented a 10-year-old Finnish boy who discovered a bug in their app with a $10,000 reward.
• An adorable baby beaver was lost outside the Van Ness metro this week, but D.C. animal control captured it and released it back into the wild.

Happy Earth Day! Remember to turn off a light or recycle your water bottle or whatever silly thing your HR department encouraged you to do for one single day a year.

• Rest in peace, Prince. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Prince’s hometown paper, has a photo gallery of the superstar’s incredible life. Last night, the world mourned by turning purple.
• Go to the opening of Mirror to the World, including work by Exposed alum Michele Egan, at Glen Echo Photoworks Gallery tonight from 6 to 8 p.m.
• Congrats to Alexandria photographer Cindy Dyer, whose image of a waterlily from Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens was one of 16 selected to go on the U.S. Postal Service’s Forever Stamp to commemorate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary.
• New at National Museum of Women in the Arts, She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.
• Impending entomological photo op? You may need to go slightly west.
• A selection of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning photographs.
• A French photographer is being prosecuted for taking a photo of a man fatally injured in November’s terrorist attacks in Paris. The controversial “Guigou law” bans the publication of photos of victims on the grounds that it violates their rights to human dignity.
• Photographer Kate Warren does an excellent job illustrating Amanda Whiting’s story on D.C.’s “maddening” pot laws in the Washingtonian.
• Ghost photobombs guest at hotel that inspired “The Shining”.
• Astronaut photography from space helped “discover” Earth.
• The Crusade for Art grant deadlines are due at midnight tonight.
• “A hairy beast walking wouldn’t bother anybody too much here, as long as it minded its own business.”

• Donate your camera to the photographers at Street Sense, which offers the homeless economic opportunities through its bi-weekly newspaper.
• Carl Strüwe’s images find the beautiful and curious through a microscope.
• An incredible photo gallery showing the curators of Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History with their collections.
• We rely on photos to convey stories from around the world. What’s at stake when so few of those stories are told by women?
• Photographer Peter van Agtmael, on assignment for a European magazine, headed to Tennessee and Maryland in 2015 to photograph America’s most well-known hate group, including a wedding.
• American photographer Kevin Dawes, who disappeared in Syria three years ago, was released today by Syrian authorities. Exposed pal Bill Putnam, who has embedded with troops in Afghanistan, disputes the media categorizing him as a “photojournalist.”
• National Geographic Traveler magazine writes about why they featured the Instagram sensation #FollowMeTo on their latest cover.
• Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day includes a vibrant aurora.
• “In the future, we will photograph everything and look at nothing,” says the New Yorker in a stuffy headline for a thoughtful article.
• Bei Bei or Chow Chow?
• Cheeky monkey!