- Call for entries through July 15: The Community Collective Photography Showcase is a contest and show hosted by Capital Fringe, organized by local photographer Jarrett Hendrix, and supported by Exposed DC and other local groups IGDC, A Creative DC, DC Focused, Streetmeet DC. All the details.
- Flashpoint, the last gallery in Gallery Place and the home of our 3rd annual Exposed DC exhibit, is closing. CulturalDC, which runs Flashpoint, sold the space to a real estate developer. The gallery will remain open for about another year, while it looks for a place to move such as the new developments at Walter Reed Medical Center, or the Wharf in Southwest, the City Paper reports.
- Head to a reception next Wednesday at The W Hotel for the winners of FotoDC’s Faces and Places contest.
- A trip through the Pulitzer Prize-winning photos at the Newseum is a rough road through atrocities, except for one bright, joyful subject: The Olympics. On August 6, during the opening weekend of the games in Rio, head down to hear photographers Ken Geiger and William Snyder talk about their past coverage.
- Bored Panda picks out a couple hundred of their favorite touching images from the 2 million photos Pete Souza has taken of President Obama over 8 years. (Spoiler: Most of them have babies.)
- Some great photos from behind the scenes at the Supreme Court.
- It’s going to be a long summer in California as wildfire season kicks off intensely. Reuters has a gallery of images from the latest fires, and we have to appreciate their bringing a moment of incredulity to an otherwise rough situation, with this emu fleeing down the road in Potrero.
- Two Twin Otter aircraft successfully made a dangerous winter trek to the National Science Foundation facility at the South Pole this week to pick up two workers in need of medical attention.
- Unique home listing includes person in a panda suit in every picture.
- Twitter to buy Magic Pony (no, really), whose technology “helps enhance visuals with information that may not be in the picture itself, but essentially [can] be recreated from composites of similar pictures, much like how the human eye works.”
- In 1945 Kodak accidentally discovered that America had tested the first atomic bomb.
- For his compelling and disturbing new biography of Diane Arbus, Arthur Lubow drew on exclusive interviews with those who knew her intimately.
- Wedding photo shoots can be dangerous! #snakes
- Grateful owl “hugs” volunteer who saved her.
