The DC History Conference runs through tomorrow. We’ll be at the History Network this afternoon in the lobby of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library from 1:15-3:15 p.m. Stop by to say hello, flip through old exhibition programs, chat about photography in D.C., and plans for the 2024 show and beyond. You can view the full schedule online.

• Exposed alum Chris Suspect’s new book, Truly Blessed, tells the story about a community’s response to discrimination, both racial and religious. The book is available for purchase at $50.
• Photographer Daniel Cox is exposing the impacts of climate change in his Arctic Documentary Project that features polar bears prominently. 
• Join PortraitMeetDC at metrobar on April 14 from 2-5 p.m. for  a new kind of meet.
• Save the date for a hands-on cyanotype event at Photoworks with Mac Cosgrove-Davies, an instructor at Photoworks and featured photographer in our 2024 show!
• On April 13 at Photoworks, Francesca Scott delves into the history of the iconic Scurlock Photographic Studio and their legacy of documenting Black life over the span of nine decades. The event is free, and you can reserve a spot today.
• NASA pulled together five tips for photographing a total solar eclipse as people prepare for Monday. Just using your cellphone to document it? There are tips for that, too!
• The Guardian highlights a selection of photographs from the 24 winning projects and six honorable mentions in the World Press Photo annual competition. Four global winners will be announced later this month.

• Join StreetMeet tomorrow at 3pm on U Street (10th Street Metro exit) as they celebrate nine years of StreetMeet.
• Dodge Chrome is having a spring photo contest. Submit up to three entries per category (Colors of Spring, Dark and Light, Pattern & Texture) by emailing contest@dodgechrome.com by May 31. All winners will receive a large mounted print of their work with some cash prizes for 1st and 2nd.
• India celebrates Holi, the Hindu festival of color, marking the reawakening of spring with awesome photos from the AP Photo team.
• Meroë Marston Morse joined Polaroid just weeks after graduating with a degree in art history and was integral in transforming the camera company into a brand beloved by photographers to this day.
• See “Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell” at the National Portrait Gallery. If you go on April 14, there’s a curator tour.
• The winning images and photographers of this year’s World Nature Photography Awards have been announced.
• In his ongoing “Descendants” series, Drew Gardner combines research with photography as he recreates striking portraits of Black Civil War soldiers.
• The Concrete in Life Photo of the Year competition puts concrete front and center and all around.

• Join the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for a Women’s History Month Wikipedia edit-a-thon presented with support from Wikimedia DC on Tuesday from 2-5 p.m.
• The 2024 Working Scientist photo competition is open for entries that showcase the work that scientists do all around the world. Note that professional photographers appear ineligible for this call.
• Enjoy a thread of photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance.
• The 2024 Leica Women Foto Project Awardees have been announced with projects that cover societal preconceptions, postpartum depression, surrealism, and contemporary indigenous women of different ages.
• Miles Myerscough-Harris used a camera from 1897 to recreate a 100-year-old team photo of the AIK soccer club.
• The USPS will pay tribute to photographer Ansel Adams with a stamp collection featuring 16 of his images.
• The Annual DC History Conference returns for its 50th anniversary at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library April 4-6, free. We’ll be there for the History Network on Friday, April 5 from 1:15-3:15 p.m.

• Artomatic opens today at 2100 M Street NW, noon to 11:45 p.m. and runs through April 28. Check out all the events here.
• Join senior lecturer David Gariff at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday at noon as he discusses the innovative work of ten women photographers.
• Steve Simon, aka The Passionate Photographer, will give an honest evaluation of photographs submitted in an online session hosted by LaCie on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
• The exhibit “New Perspective on the New Thing: A Photography Exhibition Documenting D.C.’s Revolutionary Community Arts Center, 1966-1972” at the Katzen Arts Center closes on March 17 and was reviewed in the Washington Post.
• Ami Vitale is holding a contest for a female-identifying photographer to travel with her and Vital Impacts on a 22-day Polar Latitudes expedition to the Falkland Islands/Malvinas, South Georgia and Antarctica.
• Ivan McClellan spent nearly a decade documenting the lives, wins, and losses of the Black rodeo community from Alabama to Los Angeles in his project, “Eight Seconds.”
• Check out this monthly roundup of open calls, residencies, and grants for artists.