This week we announced that Noe Todorovich is taking over as the new Executive Director of Exposed DC, so we hope to see you at our monthly happy hour to celebrate and start gearing up for another great year of local photography. We’ll see you at Right Proper Brewing, Tuesday, August 29 at 6 p.m. On to Friday Links!

• It’s been a difficult week for everyone in Charlottesville, and many of us could only watch it all go down through the eyes of photographers on the scene. The Women Photographers of Washington asked Evelyn Hockstein to take over its Instagram account for the week to document the events. Sanjay Suchak, the University of Virginia’s photographer, posted his work here and here, and the school published his inspiring images of people from the community taking back the lawn with a peaceful vigil Wednesday night.
• If you don’t know there’s a total solar eclipse crossing the U.S. on Monday, you probably aren’t on the planet. NASA has a guide for smartphone photography and Space.com goes through the history of eclipse photography.
• Once you have that perfect eclipse photo, enter it into Focus on the Story’s photo contest. Winners get cash and published in the group’s second photography book, and Exposed DC’s own Heather Goss is on the jury panel. Deadline is September 4.
• This is what happens when you take a 104-year-old Graflex and take it to a Formula 1 race.
• fovi8 is a new magazine made by photographers, for photographers. Submit your photos by August 31 for consideration in their inaugural issue.
• Enjoy this photographic trip through Denali in Alaska by Kris Cheng.
• In Agence France-Presse, photographer Timothy A. Clary explains in words and pictures his passion for documenting dancers.
• A top-secret U.S. Army base in the Utah desert gets a visit from Getty photographer George Frey for the Atlantic.
• Louisiana State University takes its mascot situation seriously, apparently, housing an entire tiger habitat for Mike(s). The latest tiger, 11-month-old Mike VII, arrived on campus this week, where handlers will see if he adjusts well.

• Marie Emerson’s exhibit “After Hours” opens Thursday, June 29, 7 to 10 p.m. at the Femme Fatale H Street NE Pop-Up Store. Emerson’s show is composed of portraits of ten local women representing six different ethnicities, saluting the lives we lead after our 9-to-5 jobs conclude.
• Photo ops around D.C.: The expert level pole jumpers at the DC Vault competition probably put on a good show. Go on a photowalk Sunday with the D.C. historical society. And a New! Ben’s! Mural! is probably all over your Instagram feeds already, so go join the fun.
• Join APA | DC, for a happy hour at Comet Ping Pong next Thursday, June 29, 6 to 9 p.m.
• The exhibition “35 Days” opens at Hemphill Fine Arts with works in a variety of media, including William Christenberry’s photography. Reception Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.
• Sign your preteen daughter up for a Space of Her Own, which matches girls with mentors in the visual arts.
• A photo gallery shows how this hot Icelandic chef is reshaping his native cuisine.
• On Wednesday night, some of us were alarmed with USGS sent out an text alert that a 6.8 earthquake hit off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. Turns out, it was a false prompt from archived data of an earthquake that happened in 1925. The L.A. Times took the opportunity to repost incredible photos from the destruction.
• Laylah Amatullah Barrayn wants to reveal the world according to black woman photographers.
• Thursday morning, after the U.S. Senate unveiled their version of the health care bill that would make brutal cuts to Medicaid while enacting tax cuts for the wealthy, disabled members of ADAPT staged a non-violent protest outside Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office. The Huffington Post has a photo gallery of Capitol police bodily removing the protestors, some of whom were in wheelchairs or wearing respirators–images we’ll likely be seeing again soon in midterm election ads, and maybe even history books.
• A video captured two female elephants jumping into action when a baby elephant fell into a pond at a South Korean park. It ends happily and impressively, and the Post talks to an elephant expert about how females in the wild have to be lifeguards for their young, with pictures.

• Tonight head to an opening at Leica Store DC for “Bright Moments,” a photography tribute to influential jazz musicians by Jati Lindsay. 7 to 9 p.m.
• Submissions have been extended to June 12 for the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. “For the Record” contest soliciting images from the Kenilworth neighborhood. Even better: Entry fee for Ward 7 residents is totally waived.
• The Washington Post announced their 18th annual Travel Photo Contest.
• Getty shows off some of the best sports photography in a new exhibit at their London gallery.
• Paul Nicklen has spent decades documenting the Arctic and the Antarctic. “I want people to realize that ice is like the soil in the garden — without ice the polar regions cannot exist.”
• When you’re competing with a dozen other photographers in a bland room for the best shot, get above the fray. Advice heeded yesterday by Andrew Harnik from the Associated Press and Doug Mills from the New York Times, who both got powerful photos from the Comey hearing.
• Child bride photographer Stephanie Sinclair was honored with the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. yesterday. The award is named in memory of the German war photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner who was killed in Afghanistan in 2014.
• LIFE Magazine photographer Paul Shultzer was killed 50 years ago this week during the Six Day War. Time Magazine remembers his photographic legacy.
• If you missed this you’re probably the last one to see it: the lawn-mowing-in-a-tornado dad who inspired a thousand memes.
• The mouse-sized “giant weta” is making a comeback in New Zealand. Go ahead. Click on it.
• Okay we won’t leave you with that animal link. Here’s a chilly husky that can’t possibly be real.

• Critical Exposure’s annual youth photo exhibit is next Thursday, June 1. The event is free, but donations online and at the door support their work teaching D.C. students to use photography for social advocacy.
• A great offer for beginning photographers looking for more control over their images: Sign up for the workshop DSLR and Mirrorless Camera Basics:  Learn to use that fancy camera, taught by Exposed alum Amanda Archibald, at the Lemon Collective in Park View, Sunday, June 11, 10am-12pm. $50.
• It’s your last chance to see the delightful exhibit from Small Steps Are Giant Leaps, featuring photographs of little Astronaut Harrison by his father, Aaron Sheldon, that celebrate the exploration you can take on every day. Head to Blind Whino on Saturday, May 27, 12 to 5 p.m. for a closing reception cookout with—naturally—a moon bounce.
• You can now pre-order a signed copy of the upcoming photobook by D.C. artist Mark Parascandola, Once Upon a Time in Almería: The Legacy of Hollywood in Spain.
• A selection of Magnum photographer David Hurn’s legendary collection of traded images, curated by Martin Parr, opened last week as part of the Photo London event. Huck magazine takes the opportunity to get the photographer’s words of advice for the next generation.
• U.S. Air Force combat photographers who served in Vietnam tell how they created a visual record of the war in the latest issue of Air & Space magazine.
• “The photos we’ve primarily seen from this White House convey a sense of distraction and amateurism.”
• Pete Souza, we miss you, but we’ll sate ourselves with your photographs of fake president Frank Underwood chilling around D.C. this week.
• The winners of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are just what we need in these troubled times.
• Take a minute to enjoy these fabulous images of dogs standing on glass photographed from below.