Be sure to head down to our Crystal City FotoWalk exhibit to enjoy the work of 12 local photographers.

• FotoweekDC is nearing its end, so catch what you can soon. At least stop by headquarters at National Geographic to see winners from the annual contest, a fantastic WPOW show, and an exhibit of NatGeo’s most popular Instagrams.
• DISTRICT II, an exhibition by the Historical Society of Washington D.C. of three local photographers from the mid- to late-20th century, opens Saturday at the National Building Museum.
• It’s officially last minute, but you can still get tickets to the 13th annual Transformer Silent Auction, one of the biggest art supporting events of the year, for Saturday night.
• “Video-art pioneer Bill Viola believes that cameras are the keepers of souls.” An exhibit of Viola’s work, “The Moving Portrait,” opens at the National Portrait Gallery today.
• “All Cameras are Good Cameras,” says this A+ headline for a story about a photo taken by Devon Allen during Baltimore’s Freddie Gray protests that shows how social media can further social change.
• A gallery of the “Beaver” Supermoon from around the world.
• The Guardian has some incredible before and after pictures of a ridiculously huge sinkhole in Japan that was fixed in two days.
• The deadline for the Los Angeles Times summer photo/video journalist internship is December 1.
• Need holiday gifts that show your love for D.C.? Get a framed print of one of the many wonderful past Exposed winners.
• Watch this polar bear pet a dog, as one does.

Join us TONIGHT 5-8 p.m. to see 150 (!) photos in our new exhibit at the Crystal City FotoWalk. We have images by 12 local photographers whose work we’ve been following for years and are very proud to display in series. The Crystal City BID makes these exhibits possible, and will provide a wonderful opening reception for us tonight with an open bar and lots of snacks. Here’s a map of the photographers, and a map for parking. The FotoWalk is right above the Crystal City metro. See you there!

• The Miami Street Photography Festival 2016 finalists were announced this week. Congrats to seasoned Exposed alums Messay Shoakena and Paul Sharratt who were among the list of names of selectees from around the world.
• A photographer bucket list? Atlas Obscura put all 10,000 of what it deems “extraordinary sights” onto one map. Zoom into see the 100 or so around the D.C. area.
• The Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Australia has captured an image of the Milky Way that allows us to see the sky in 20 primary colors.
• Next Thursday, November 10, an Arlington-based conservation organization called Rare will host a free immersive video/audio/photo experimental installation about the life of fishers and the issues of overfishing, including work by photojournalist Jason Houston.
• The last photowalk in the Historical Society of Washington, D.C’s latest series, focusing on neighborhoods that will be featured in their On the Record exhibit, is this Sunday in Ivy City, 10 a.m.
• Photo ops: The circus is coming to Navy Yard Saturday, and the 8th annual DC Tweed Ride is Sunday.
• The day after the Cubs won the World Series, people immediately noticed the difference between the iconic image that appeared on the front page of the Chicago Tribune, which still employs a staff of photojournalists, and the nebulous image printed by the Chicago Sun-Times, which laid off its entire photography staff in 2013. (The Tribune photographer, Brian Cassella, totally planned the Fibonacci spiral.)
• The “world’s leading nature and wildlife photographers” among others will run the WildSpeak conference on photography, communications, and conservation at the Carnegie Institution for Science on November 15-16.
• Support one of our favorite local nonprofits by attending HI-ReSOLUTION with Critical Exposure on November 16. Your ticket price supports programs that teach D.C. youth to use photography to express themselves about social justice issue.
• The National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest ends today, November 4, at noon sharp.
• The Air & Space / Smithsonian 4th annual photo contest ends Sunday, November 6, at midnight. Winners in four categories get cash prizes and their images in the print magazine.
• A photo capturing the seemingly sad look on the face of a 4-day-old zebrafish embryo has won the 2016 Nikon Small World contest.

On Friday, November 4, join us for a brand new exhibit at the Crystal City Fotowalk! We’ve invited 12 photographers to share a series of their work, to get a better glimpse into the vision and style of some of our favorite local artists. Join us for an Exposed DC opening reception with an open bar and snacks in the Synetic Theater Lobby. Featured photographers: Richard Barnhill, Shamila Chadhaury, Tina dela Rosa, James Jackson, Kaitlin Jencso, Rachel Mooney, Kyle Myles, Angela Napili, Diriki Rice, Caroline Space (yes, our In Frame curator gets to show off her images this time!), Chris Williams, and David Wissman.

• The Punk and Go-Go photo exhibit at the MLK branch of the D.C. Library opened on October 15 and features collected works from the community. See it until November 30.
• See “Muriel Hasbun & Caroline Lacey: Calling to You,” a photographic exhibition about legacy, the construction of memory, and cultural identity, at Civilian Art Projects before it closes at the end of Saturday.
• The Washington City Paper writes about Blagden Alley’s long arts history and how its coming to an end.
• Here are all of Pete Souza’s photos from President Obama’s last state visit and dinner, hosting guests from Italy, featuring Mario Batali, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, and of course, Michelle Obama’s stunning gown.
• Here are six great places to photograph fall foliage.
• The New York Times profiles William Eggleston and declares him to be “every bit as brilliant, confounding and heartbreakingly soulful as the pictures he makes.”
• Follow Air & Space Magazine on Instagram — @airspacemag — to see work by lots of great local photographers like Dave Wissman (next week) and (upcoming) Cameron Davidson, Bill Putnam, and Joseph Gruber. These Instagram takeovers are run by Exposed’s Heather Goss, so if you have some great aviation or astronomy photographs to share, or you’d like to recommend someone who does, drop her a line.
• The 2017 Vladimir Putin calendar has been sneak-previewed by the BBC’s Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg, which has of course prompted the interwebs to come up with their own creations, including a bare-chested Putin riding a giant kitten, and a rather NSFW Putin-Trump coupling.
• The Natural History Museum in the UK announced their 2016 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners and they are worth all your time.
• These are presumably all the outtakes from the Wildlife contest.

• This is how you build a grand photography collection for a new African-American museum.
• Photo op: The next two Saturdays, October 8 and 15, 11:30am-2pm, head to the Kogod Courtyard to watch The Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company (Burgess is the National Portrait Gallery’s first choreographer-in-residence) rehearse for their upcoming performance “Margin,” which will also be in the Courtyard on October 28.
• America’s Test Kitchen’s Director of Photography discusses the behind-the-scenes shooting of 1,000+ photos for Bread Illustrated.
• Go see Adrienne Moumin‘s hand-printed silver gelatin photographs at Hill Center Galleries. The exhibit opened October 6; attend a reception October 19.
• A golf photo? Yes, a golf photo.
• More in the Darwin Photographer awards: “Tourists in Indonesia ignored instructions to flee an erupting volcano so they could continue taking photos, the country’s disaster agency has said.” Friends, please know there is a special place in hell for people who put emergency services personnel in danger so that they can post the perfect Instagram.
• The deadline for the FotoWeekDC 2016 competition is tomorrow.
• Sean Graesser’s vivid bird portraits imitate life in the style of John James Audubon.

• You can now go see the new baby orangutan at the National Zoo. Redd, born to mom Batang and dad Kyle last week, is “thriving.” We look forward to your family portraits!
• Feeling inspired by the change in seasons? Sign up for one of the many classes offered by the Capital Photography Center. Street, sports, night, and family photography classes start as early as this Saturday — even winery photography!
• This Saturday, see work by six distinguished members of the Exposure Group African American Photographers Association (event isn’t listed) in Brookland at the new Tolbert & Bing Gallery, 716 Monroe St NE, 6 to 9 p.m.
• Spend some time this weekend with the New York Times Magazine’s stunning Voyages issue. Six photographers take you on journeys through Ethiopia, Albania, Australia, Finland, Peru, and Spain.
• Photos and links no longer count in Twitter’s 140 character limit. Make your five extra words count! Or not. It is Twitter after all. (Follow us here!)
• On Monday night a disgusting tweet by Donald Trump’s son comparing Syrian refugees to a bowl of Skittles went viral. Among Junior’s many and varied insults here, the photo is copyrighted and was used without permission from the photographer: a Turkish refugee who’s now a British citizen.
• With an inaugural gift of $400,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR has established a fund for “equipment, training and support for international coverage and video journalism at NPR” dedicated to David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna, the photo journalist and interpreter who were killed while on assignment in Afghanistan in June.
• The New Yorker has a story about “a medical secretary in Paris who persuaded scores of renowned photographers to take her picture.”
• More police shootings are now being caught on camera, but they aren’t being released to the public.
• Photographer Gerrard Gethings takes these satisfying portraits of “Ordinary Creatures” and discusses how he does it (extremely amusingly) at the Guardian.