Stay tuned over the coming weeks as we gradually reveal details of the March 10 grand opening of our 10th annual show at the Carnegie Library, hosted by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.! Meanwhile, back at the links ranch:

• The Phillips Collection has started running monthly Instagram contests offering a chance to win “an array of prizes,” as Exposed DC alum Caroline Angelo discovered this week.
• Applications are now open for the Fourth Annual New York Portfolio Review, where editors, curators, gallerists and book publishers will conduct two days of private photo critiques.
• The Alexia Foundation is accepting applications from individual photographers for its Professional Alexia Grant Program.
• “Leila Alaoui, a French-Moroccan photographer whose hauntingly beautiful photographs explored themes of migration, cultural identity and displacement, died on Monday night from injuries sustained during a terrorist attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.”
• The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders relied on the power of photographs to persuade, enrage and motivate.
• Life magazine never ran these striking images by Gordon Parks of what it was like to be black in 1950s America.
• Extraordinary images of the cruise ship Concordia by Jonathan Danko Kielkowski. The German photographer swam out to where the ship – which ran aground off Tuscany in 2012 with the loss of 32 lives – is moored.
• In his series “A General History of Timeless Landscapes,” Ross Paxton captures British people on top of tour buses look generally displeased.
• At first glance, the people in Kyle Cassidy’s portraits couldn’t look more dissimilar from one another. They’re different ages, races, and genders, and they come from all across the United States. But they all have one thing in common: guns.
• Areinha, in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, was abandoned by mining corporations and is now a no-man’s land where small groups of rural workers try their luck with manual techniques.
• These once-lost frames of history shot by photographer Ron Haviv are seeing the light of day for the first time.
• What happens when a lake dries up entirely? In the case of the Lake Poopo in Bolivia, the Andean nation’s formerly second largest after the famed Titicaca, the answer is nothing short of devastation.
• “It just looks so strange to plop a lizard onto a couch, or a parrot in a car. What do they make of this environment?” Areca Rose’s series “Housebroken” documents unusual pets in domestic settings.
• This rescue cat was adopted and raised by pack of Siberian Huskies, who are all now “best friends”.