Join us on Monday, May 22 at 6 p.m. for our monthly happy hour at Jack Rose on the second level terrace. This is our first happy hour since winter, so we hope to see all your shining faces. Photographers and friends all welcome.

• We’re incredibly proud of our former Exposed team member Sanjay Suchak, who now works as UVA’s official photographer and whose images are now wallpapering the Charlottesville airport (and soon to come to even closer airports). He also came to Deanwood recently to meet and photograph DCPS Principal Ben Williams. “I think he’s one of the brightest spots in the DCPS,” Sanjay told us, and about the story: “It’s a tearjerker.”
• The City of Alexandria has put out a call for artists to submit proposals for a public art project in the Duke Street Tunnel.  Deadline is June 4.
• Mammatus clouds are “pouch-like, bulbous clouds that hang menacingly from a layer of mid-level clouds,” according to the Capital Weather Gang, and we got a stunning view of them around the metro area last night.
• Listen to fine art photographer Mitch Epstein talk about contemporary landscape photography and his ongoing exhibit at the National Gallery of Art this Sunday at 12 p.m.
• Reminiscent of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Theater series, photographer Jason Shulman uses ultra-long exposures to condense the entirety of films into a single image.
• The annual APA Awards contest is open and open to all photographers, though members save money on entry fees. Deadline is July 12.
• Today is Endangered Species Day! The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute celebrates with a slew of new births of endangered and vulnerable species.
• Don’t forget to RSVP for Critical Exposure’s annual youth photo exhibit on June 1. The event is free, but donations online and at the door are welcome and support their work teaching D.C. students to use photography for social advocacy.
• It’s better to give than to receive, so we hear. The D.C. Commission on Arts and the Humanities is looking for panelists to review grant proposals for next year.
• Gratuitous rescued-ducklings-in-a-box photo, courtesy of the 14th Librarian of Congress.

Save the date for our next happy hour, Monday, May 22, location TBA!

• The closing party for the Community Collective Photography Showcase takes place this Saturday, May 6, from 7 to 11 p.m. at Capital Fringe.
• Enter FotoDC latest’s photo contest with the theme of Style, in collaboration with City Center DC, by May 30.
• The deadline for the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.’s “For the Record” photo contest, featuring certain neighborhoods throughout the city, is May 15.
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture is hiring a photo conservator.
• At Leica Store DC, go to a photo critique circle this Sunday, an artist talk with Bill Putnam (currently exhibiting in their gallery) on May 21, and join them for a movie night on May 25.
• TPM took photos of the GOP celebrating the House’s passage of the bill that could destroy health care for millions and annotated them with the number of people in each Representative’s district that will lose coverage if it becomes law.
• Teenagers are documenting their changing neighborhoods in New York City.
• Speaking of talented teenage documentarians, support the ones in D.C. and RSVP now for Critical Exposure’s exhibit “Can’t Corrupt This Image,” opening June 1.
• A Google software engineer has been working on an app to allow manual adjustment of exposure time, ISO, and focus distance on a smartphone.
  
• A photo of a Girl Scout standing up to a neo-Nazi demonstrator in the Czech city of Brno went viral.
• A baby ring-tailed lemur called Heather, who was abandoned by her mother, is safe and well-fed at a German zoo.

• Tonight, head to the launch party for the photo book UnPresidented: The Inauguration of Donald J. Trump and the People’s Response, featuring images from D.C.’s most talented street photographers. Congrats to Shamila Chadhaury and Joe Newman for putting this work together. Join the party and get the book (or buy it on Amazon) at the Gallery O on H at 7 p.m.
• Barack Obama offers advice on selfie-taking to an audience at the University of Chicago.
• In one of the first attempts to photograph a solar eclipse, this astronomer invented a camera and lugged “a complete photographic darkroom laboratory” to the field, including, among other necessities, “an undisclosed quantity of wine.”
• Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is “stunned” after Instagram bans photos promoting a new exhibit of work by Imogen Cunningham, who was well known for her nude photography during her 70-year-long career; Cunningham died in 1976.
• Spineless: Portraits of Invertebrates features photos by Susan Middleton from across the Pacific Ocean. You can even watch a little preview video to see how she made these.
• This photographer visited 20 countries to document the pollination process. (We’re not sure if she titled the series These Photos Might Make You Sneeze.)
• “We wear masks for many reasons: for fun, for protection, or to make a statement.” The Atlantic comes up with a reasonable excuse for a cool gallery.
• The pictures of this iceberg sidling up to Newfoundland are pretty incredible.
• Instagram’s rapid changes have caused it to reach “escape velocity“–whatever that means–says the New York Times.
• Capital Weather Gang wins this week’s headline writing award: “This is not aliens. It’s an aurora named Steve. (Seriously.)”
• Quite a diverse showing from George Washington University’s new show, an exhibition featuring photos by Andy Warhol, Sally Gall, Philippe Halsman, along with seen D.C. photographers. Also see photos from graduating Corcoran student Matailong Du, who documented the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company as they performed at the National Portrait Gallery last year. Opening on May 2.
• One of the baby bald eagles at the National Arboretum needed rescuing after falling out of its nest and getting tangled in a tree branch. The catchily named “DC4” is the embodiment of gawkiness.

Tonight, join us in Crystal City for a reception to celebrate our new exhibit with 120 photographs lining the underground Fotowalk (map at link). They’re huge and beautiful and feature the work of 78 local photographers. Meet us at the Gallery Underground (at the opposite end of the Fotowalk from the Metro) from 6-8 p.m. for an open bar and quality time with talented artists. This event is part of First Fridays in Crystal City, so wander around the underground for additional openings, wine tastings, crafts, and more.

• If you wondered why In Frame has been on hiatus, it’s because our curator Caroline Space has been working hard on her latest photography project, Forest of Lorien (see a video preview here), which she’ll be presenting as her masters thesis at the Corcoran School of Art and Design next Wednesday, April 12, 6 to 9 p.m., along with several other undergrad and graduate students. The event is open to the public but you must RSVP. Here at Exposed DC we want to give our hearty congratulations to our exceptionally talented team member!
• The second installment of the Community Collective Photography Showcase opens at Capital Fringe this Saturday, 7 to 10 p.m., featuring local photography juried by members of D.C. photo groups, including Exposed’s own James Calder.
• “Mirror to the World” opens at Glen Echo Photoworks today, juried by Frank Von Riper and featuring 11 local photographers, including the Washington City Paper’s Darrow Montgomery and Exposed alum Cristine Pearl.
• At Artists Proof, a gallery in Georgetown, see the new exhibit “Home of Art,” featuring work by Spanish photographer Pedro Correa.
• The School of Visual Arts has made 99 photography lectures available for free on YouTube.
• You can now pay your respects to astronaut and Senator John Glenn, who was interred at Arlington Cemetery yesterday.
• PDN features the work of Tom M Johnson, who was on assignment to photograph parking lots and came away this clever series, “Booths.”
• A flock of Chilean flamingos fly over the Andes in this stunner from wildlife photographer Ben Hall.
• The Atlantic marks the 100 year anniversary of the United States entering World War I with this photo gallery.
• So much squee this week: The National Zoo went into cute overload with a dozen cheetah cubs born to two litters at its Front Royal habitat, and the Memphis Zoo welcomed a brand new slimy cat, er, baby hippo to its stable (scroll to the bottom for a gallery).