• Get local history digitized by contributing some dough to this crowdfunding effort by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. to buy new servers and develop better user accessibility to its vast collection of photographs.
• Don’t miss the early bird deadline of April 15 (and save $15 in the process!) when you submit your photographs to the Historical Society’s For the Record juried exhibition and fundraiser. If that’s too soon, the final entry deadline is May 15.
• Long read: “America’s black metropolises were documented by visionary black photographers who forged successful businesses and important roles as local community historians.” Addison Scurlock and his sons photographed black Washington for much of the 20th century.
• Images from the Library of Congress show that the tradition of photographing the cherry blossoms is as old as the trees themselves.
• Women Photograph has launched its inaugural round of grants to support documentary projects. Apply by May 20.
• Two photographers were announced as 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners this week. In the Breaking News Photography category, Daniel Berehulak (freelance) won for his images of the government’s callous assault on drug dealers and users in the Philippines. In Feature Photography, the award went to E. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune for his portrayal of a 10-year-old survivor of a Chicago shooting.
• In her new exhibit “EUSA,” Toronto photographer Naomi Harris documents America-themed places in Europe and Europe-themed places in America.
• PDN features a gallery of work from “Delhi: Communities of Belonging” from photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh that show the lives of LGBTQ residents.
• California’s drought is over (for now, at least) and the countryside is blooming so brightly you can see it from space. The L.A. Times has a great gallery of those wildflowers in all their glory.
• Need some adorable? Here’s a red panda getting freaked out by a stationary rock.

Be sure to visit our newest exhibit in Crystal City — stroll through Fotowalk Underground and take in the work of 78 local photographers who find “Art in the Everyday” by making abstract and graphically-arresting images that cause us to take a second look at our surroundings. And mark your calendars for an artists reception April 7, 6pm-8pm.

• Got plans Saturday? No, we mean all day Saturday. The 24HourProject “gathers street and documentary photographers from around the globe to share in real time as they document the human condition of their city.” Starting at midnight (Friday night/Saturday morning) take and post a picture every hour on the hour for 24 hours. Check this very informative post by Nana Gyesie, the project’s ambassador for Washington D.C.
• IGDC took over the NGA’s Instagram account last Friday. Don’t worry, they gave it back a few days later.
• Popville has posted images of a new photo lab coming soon to a long-vacant building on H Street NE next to the Atlas Theatre. The website listed in the window suggests this will be a new location of Woodbridge, Virginia based Photo-60.
• Local 19-year old Myles Loftin’s joyful photo series “HOODED” challenges media stereotypes about black male teens.
• The Smithsonian has announced the winners of its 14th annual photo contest, selecting nine entries from more than 48,000 submissions by photographers in 146 countries and territories. (And we thought judging our contest was tough!)
• High rainfall over the winter spawned a wildflower “super bloom” in California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the most prolific since at least 1999 according to park officials.
• The Sony World Photography Awards has announced the winners of its Open categories and National categories for 2017. The Atlantic has posted an extensive gallery of winners and runners-up.
• “Catherine Leroy was widely considered the most daring photographer in Vietnam. She almost certainly spent the most time in combat — in part because she had no money, having traveled from her native France to Vietnam as a freelancer in 1966 with no contracts and a short list of published work. Living with soldiers meant that she could eat rations and sleep in the countryside.”
• Birdwatchers in Western Australia are “elated” after snapping a photo of a night parrot for the first time in a century.
• Meanwhile in northern Queensland, possible sightings of a Tasmanian tiger have prompted scientists to undertake a search for the species thought to have died out more than 80 years ago.