• Critical Exposure is seeking a Program Director to join their team and lead their youth organizing programs.
• Get tickets for this year’s virtual WPOW Seminar + Portfolio Review happening on April 10: general public $45, WPOW member $35, student $20.
• Jay P. Morgan took a cheap panoramic film camera to Death Valley, sharing the results and technical details about the camera and settings, too.
• Category winners in the Sony World Photography awards’ open category have been announced along with some shortlisted entries.
• Commercial and fine art photographer Barry Seidman found inspiration for his latest project looking at his kitchen junk drawer.
• It took Finnish photographer JP Metsavainio 12 years and 1,200 hours of exposure to create this 1.7 gigapixel panorama of the Milky Way.
• More companies are switching to CGI for creating images of their products, with potential impact on how product photographers operate.
• Digital Camera World shares a list of 22 of the most innovative and prolific female photographers and how they’ve shaped the art form.

Join us tonight at 6 p.m. for a virtual roundtable to chat with fellow photographers, share images, and discuss where we find inspiration. Register here to get all the details and info on uploading images.

• For Photoworks first online benefit, faculty and artists donated prints to their annual photo raffle. The donated artwork can now be viewed in an online exhibition.
• California-based photographer Chanell Stone challenges traditional nature photography by focusing on an often overlooked kind of landscape—the natural beauty found within cities.
• Sheila Pree Bright and Cheriss May will share how certain moments shaped their memories and its influence on documenting future political and cultural affairs as part of the #LeicaConversations series on Thursday, March 18 at 4:00 p.m. on Zoom.
• Naomi Rosenblum, historian of photography and author of seminal works about the field, died last month at the age of 96. Her books provided a global perspective of photography as well as traced the accomplishments of women photographers.
• Winners of the 2020 World Nature Photography Awards have been announced.
• Product photographer Barry Mountford shares tips for simple lighting setups at home in a video demonstration that can be viewed for free, along with other talks and sessions from The Photography Show: Spring Shoots.
• Photograph the tulip magnolias around the Smithsonian Castle this coming week with Washington Photo Safari, $74, with three sessions available.

It’s been a while since we’ve had a virtual roundtable, and we’d love to see and hear what you all have been up to lately. Join us next Friday, March 12 at 6 p.m. for a session focused on finding inspiration. You can share an image and whatever inspired you in creating it–a famous photograph, painting, life experience, etc. If you’d like to take part, please register here to get all the details including how to upload your image!

• The Leica Women Foto Project will feature photographers from around the world, highlighting their unique perspectives and experiences within photography.
• A photographer puts Polaroid images through a ritualistic “disinfecting” process using water, sanitizer, soap, bleach, Dettol, and other household cleaners to metaphorically reveal the unseen virus in her pictures.
• The ten-day Medium Festival of Photography kicks off this week with online workshops, seminars, portfolio reviews, lectures, virtual studio tours, and keynotes from notable working photographers.
• Here are five things that Digital Camera World is looking forward to for this weekend’s Photography Show Spring Shoots virtual event.
• Russian photographer Daniel Kordan captures the glow of flickering fireflies at they populate a dense bamboo forest in Japan.
• She Explores and Columbia Sportswear will be chatting with photojournalist Lynsey Addario on Instagram Live this Monday at noon.
• Atlanta photographers Regis and Kahran Bethencourt make kids’ wildest dreams come true in portrait sessions inspired by their imagination.
• This month, the AU Photo Collective is presenting a series of three Zoom talks featuring 4 photographers on Wednesdays at 8 p.m., starting on March 10 with Nate Larson, a contemporary artist working with photographic media, artist books, and digital video.
• Wu-Tang Clan announced their new photobook “Wu-Tang Clan: Legacy,” which will be strictly limited to 36 copies, each of which will be encased in its very own bronze-encrusted steel chamber.

• “Dig Us,” a virtual exhibition, explores the iconic image of Louis Armstrong and the Great Sphinx of Giza and details of the trip itself.
• Critical Exposure will be reviving their Freedom Fridays starting February 26. DC young people aged 13-24 can drop in monthly on Friday afternoons into CE virtual space for roundtable discussions and to engage with an organizer, activist, and/or photographer working to create positive change in their community.
• From raucous drag nights to hip-hop battles in boxing gyms, Joseph M Giordano’s photographs from the last 25 years capture Baltimore’s vibrant nightlife in a book that the artist thinks “is a document of a time that I think is gone forever.”
• “Working Together” is an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the formative years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963.
• Photographers Roy Sewall and Joel Hoffman lead an online workshop on how to conduct a street photography survey tomorrow at 2 p.m., $20-30.
• Tune into the DC History Center’s Instagram account on Thursday, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a live chat with the DC Street Photography Collective.
• Today at 1 p.m., curators, collections managers, and other experts from Dumbarton House, Georgetown University, and Tudor Place Historic House & Garden will explore Georgetown’s Black history and share tips and techniques for preserving your own family photographs, documents, and more.
• The Museum of Modern Art received a donation of 100 photographs that it hopes will aid in canonizing under-recognized female artists.
• Pro surfer Daniel Fuller has released a collection of his seascape photography in a new Rizzoli book “Liquid Horizon: Meditations on the Surf and Sea.”