Join us on August 19 at 6:00 p.m. for a virtual roundtable. We look forward to catching up with you and seeing photos from your vacations or staycations. Register here and check your confirmation email for details on how to upload your image and join the session next week.

• View the winning images of the 15th annual Washington Gardener Photo Contest at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens through August 30, open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• The Times’ pictures of the month for July include photos from around the world and a few words on how they came about.
• PhotoWorks is offering a new, free virtual program called “Photo Matters,” beginning August 22 at 10:00 a.m. It’ll be a Zoom where people can hang out and discuss all matters photographic.
• Sigma Ambassador Anabel Dflux will be sharing tips and tricks for shooting concerts on August 25 at 7:00 p.m. during a live webinar with PROCAM.
• The International Center of Photography in New York has announced David E. Little as its next executive director. 
• Aerial photographs of houses in Ecuador convey the relationship between the buildings and their contexts using drones.
• An essay explores questions of privacy invasion by comparing paparazzi photography to wildlife photography.
• A soon-to-be-released documentary celebrates the legacy of Picture Post, the highly influential magazine which shaped perceptions of British life during and after World War II.

It’s been a while since we had a virtual roundtable, and we’d love to see what photos you’ve been taking lately. Join us on Thursday, August 19 at 6:00 p.m. for a session where we can catch up and share images on the theme of vacation. You can register here and refer to the confirmation email for details on uploading photos. Looking forward to seeing you and your awesome photos! 

• A group of five photojournalists who were arrested and/or beaten during last year’s protests against racial injustice has sued the NYPD in an attempt to stop what they call egregious and repeated violations of journalists’ right to record police activity on public streets.
• Fifty years ago, Sue Davies opened the Photographers’ Gallery in London “to gain recognition for photography as an art form in its own right.”
• From the man-faced stink bug to the mirror spider that looks like a disco ball, nature is full of incredible insects that survive thanks in part to their bizarre adaptations.
• Clever paper cutouts by Rich McCor (aka Paperboyo) transform architecture and landmarks into amusing scenes.
• “The New Woman Behind the Camera” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and slated to open at the National Gallery of Art at the end of October, presents about 200 photographs by 120 female photographers from more than 20 countries.
• Winners of the Minimalist Photography Awards 2021 were selected from over 3,700 entries from 39 countries.
• Exposed alum Marci Lindsay interviewed Sasha Waters Freyer, the director of Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, who talked about her portrait of the artist, women in street photography, and why she became a filmmaker.
• UNESCO invites people aged 14 to 25 who have lived or traveled to the Silk Roads region to submit photos to their Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads contest before the August 24 deadline, free to enter.

• An open call on the Hundred Heroines site led 15 women photographers to create their own collective, Struck By Light.
• Kodak deleted an Instagram post featuring images of Xinjiang taken by French photographer Patrick Wack after an online backlash from Beijing’s supporters.
• Landscape photographer Kristen Ryan will be hosting a free four-part landscape photography education series live online with Samy’s Camera and Sigma Photo. Classes will be Tuesday nights through August starting on the 10th. 
• A group photography exhibition in Zurich explores the theme of oceans as experienced from the shore.
• The Michel du Cille Fellowship by the National Press Photographers Foundation is a year-long fellowship that provides $15,000 to a professional visual journalist to encourage coverage of topics of great importance in today’s changing world. The deadline to apply is August 2.
• Photographer Greg White visualizes the abstract and fundamental concepts of physics in his Base Quantities series.
• The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business after over a month offline due to a glitch.
• Leading sports photographer and Red Bull Photography teacher Naim Chidiac provides advice and insight into his work covering motorsports events like the Dakar Rally.
• Between the 1890s and 1940s, Lora Webb Nichols created a body of photography 24,000 images strong, most of which feature the life and times of her hometown, Encampment, Wyoming.

Just a few days left to view the outdoor installation of our 15th anniversary Exposed DC Photography Show in Mount Pleasant! Join the Exposed DC team and some of the exhibiting photographers on Sunday from 1-3 p.m. for a closing celebration. If you’re bummed about the show coming down, remember you can always purchase any of the winning images. And stay tuned for another great show coming to Lost Origins Outside soon after!

• Professional photographer Verity Milligan discusses her love/hate relationship with social media as a creative trying not to put too much emphasis on the number of likes images receive.
• A photography instructor bans 18-55mm kit lenses in her undergraduate editorial photography class, sparking some lively discussions on Reddit.
• JAY-Z has filed a lawsuit against Jonthan Mannion, who shot the iconic cover for his debut album, over the photographer’s selling photos and profiting off his likeness without the rapper’s permission.
• “The New Woman Behind the Camera” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features 120 women photographers who worked during the 20th century.
• Watchmaker Blancpain is partnering with the Ocean Photography Awards and launching the Female Fifty Fathoms Award for women photographers.
• The 2021 Audubon Photography Awards winners and honorable mentions were announced this week. This year, the contest also accepted video submissions.
• Hungarian photographer Istvan Kerekes has spent the last 15 years documenting the shepherding communities of Transylvania, capturing the bonds they have with their herds beautifully. 
• Exposed alum Chris Suspect shares about his photography career to date on the first episode of Beyond the Frame, which includes his image in our 2021 show. Heads-up: there’s also some NSFW content.

There’s just over a week left to view the 15th annual Exposed DC Photography Show in Mount Pleasant. The show closes on Sunday, July 11, so be sure to swing by before then. You can also join us from 1-3 p.m. on the closing day to chat with the Exposed DC team and featured photographers as well as purchase an exhibition magazine. All of the images in the show are also available for purchase at first time art buyer prices, so you can view your favorite image at home or in the office even after the show closes.

• View the finalists from the Photoworks Photo Slam 2021, including the winners who will exhibit in the Photoworks 2022 Gallery.
• Photographer Mitch Dobrowner captures some of nature’s most dramatic and overpowering shows of force in his black-and-white images of storm cells.
• After years of feeling shame about their gender identity, Ian Morton turned to conceptual self-portraiture to envision what pride looks like for them.
• Join the DC Street Photography Collective, DCSPC,  on July 8 at Slash Run for a night of photography with two-time Pulitzer prize winner Lucian Perkins, $15. Larry Cohen from the Observe Collective and Melissa Lyttle from aphotoaday.org will be participating in the critique as well.
• Black Women Photographers share stories and pictures on the theme of “home.”
• Mangrove Action Project launched its 7th annual Mangrove Photography Awards to illustrate the importance and diversity of life in mangrove forests, engage audiences in mangrove issues and stories, whilst inspiring people to take conservation action.
• B&H Photo is hosting an online introduction to photography workshop with classes and critiques, each Wednesday in July.