- Yayoi Kusama is coming to the Hirshhorn and Instagrammers are already getting itchy trigger fingers. Lavanya Ramanathan makes the case that the museum should ban camera phones at the exhibit. Is the author making a case based on practical concerns, or does it sound like art elitism? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
- Grab your camera and get outside on Tuesday, May 24 at noon, when the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds fly in formation with smoke trails just 1,000 feet over the National Mall.
- Another photo op in the making in Chinatown.
- Enter the Washington Printmakers’ National Small Works Exhibition contest for prints and photography by May 21.
- Adamson Gallery, host of print and photography shows in DC since 1982, is closing its 14th street gallery, though the printing shop in Blagden Alley will remain open.
- On Monday, President Obama made the bison our national mammal, so here are 10 photos of bison from National Geographic.
- The job was meant to be capturing official handshakes, but it turned into documenting history.
- Photographer Spencer Tunick is planning a photo shoot during the GOP Convention in Cleveland featuring 100 naked women. Volunteers needed.
- Steve McCurry was caught photoshopping items in and out of photos. He released a statement blaming it on the printing technician. However our own Sanjay Suchak noticed a photo in the most recent story on his blog where McCurry obviously cloned out an object in the middle of the sidewalk. So we’re guessing this is more widespread than just these few.
- Instagram announced a new logo and whole new design, leading to The Great Instagram Logo Freakout of 2016. “Skeuomorphism is dead” quoth the NY Times.
- Dear Adobe, please buy Flickr.
- Two airlines, Canadian North and West Jet, are bending the rules and letting pets travel uncrated with their owners who are fleeing the Fort McMurray wildfires, and there are pictures to prove it.
