• Sign up for two photo walks this weekend with the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. in the neighborhoods of Burleith and Congress Heights, two of the places that will be featured in their For the Record photo contest.
• Register now for Artomatic 2016. This, the eighth iteration of the local, unjuried show opens November 3 and takes place in Potomac Park in Maryland. The cost is $140 and requires volunteer hours.
• Check out the schedule at the Leica Store for the next few months, including a Monthly Group Critique this Sunday at 2pm, a print exchange, a cosplay photoshoot, and more.
• If you’re an independent female photographer, send your info to Danielle Zalcman by the end of the weekend to go into a database she’s putting together.
• An investigation by the ACLU revealed that data marketing company Geofeedia has been sifting through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in order to provide data to police departments. In one case, the Baltimore Police Department was able to make real-time maps and use facial recognition software to find and arrest protestors after the death of Freddie Gray. All three social media services have since terminated access to Geofeedia.
• The Washington Post profiles Wayne Sherwin, who has been photographing Washington, D.C. for 70 years.
• “The deserts of Rajasthan in northwestern India are expansive, but the photographs of Gauri Gill go narrow and deep.” WCP’s Louis Jacobson reviews the new Sackler and Freer Galleries exhibit.
• Astrophotographers: Would you be interested in a celestial object finder/tracker for your DSLR, and if so, what would it be like? Help a senior from the Rochester Institute of Technology develop one by filling out her survey by the end of the weekend.
• Go inside an underground amusement park in Syria built by volunteers.
• Two critically endangered eastern black rhinos that were bred in England have given birth to two babies in Tanzania. Only 700 of the rhinos are thought to remain.
• Don’t worry. This poor bald eagle that got stuck in a car’s grill during Hurricane Matthew is totally fine and in no way a metaphor for our nation right now.

Rain or shine, join us Thursday evening for our October happy hour up on the terrace at Jack Rose in Adams Morgan. Have a drink, chat about about cameras, camera phones, new museums, temperaments, and whatever else is on your mind!

• Go to a discussion with photographer Vince Lupo at Leica Store DC to hear what ‘Spirit of the West’ means to him, Sunday, October 2, 2 p.m.
• Saturday afternoon at Capital Fringe, attend the closing reception for the Community Collective show, which we helped judge.
• Sign up now for APA|DC’s first annual portfolio review at Union Station on Wednesday, October 5, 6:30 p.m.
• The Historical Society of Washington D.C.’s is holding street photography classes in the neighborhoods that will feature in their For The Record exhibit next spring.
• Cool local job alerts! Smithsonian Magazine is hiring an Associate Photography Editor, and the National Museum of Natural History has a vacancy for a Photographer. Both are full-time positions.
• Pulitzer Prize winning D.C. photographer Lucian Perkins (a previous Exposed judge) has created his first full-length documentary. The Messengers follows the patients and caregivers at Joseph’s House, a hospice in Adams Morgan for homeless men and women dying from AIDS.
• Time magazine interviews AP photographer Evan Vucci (also a previous Exposed judge) about his Year on the Campaign Trail with Donald Trump.
• Leica announced the winners of this year’s Oskar Barnack awards. French photographer Scarlett Coten took the top prize for her series of images challenging the archetypes of masculinity in the Arab world, while fellow countrywoman Clémentine Schneidermann won best newcomer for her work documenting the town of Abertillery in South Wales.
• The incredible story of Joao Maia, a visually impaired photographer capturing the Paralympic Games in Rio (video).
• LensCulture picks their top 100 street photographers, including many time Exposed winner Messay Shoakena.
• “Behind many Instagram accounts featuring filtered selfies and sun-kissed beaches is a second account reserved for close friends and full of willfully unattractive shots.” The story behind neologisms Rinstagram and Finstagram.
• Nature photographer Doug Giles captured an incredible and rare interspecies adoption, while an amateur Scottish shutterbug snapped this amazing shot of starlings “dancing”.