Just one week until our 2018 Annual Photography Show opens… ONE WEEK! You have until Friday, May 11 at noon to buy your advanced tickets online for $15 or you can get them at the door for $20. We can’t wait to see everyone at Dupont Underground and celebrate another year of awesome D.C. photography!

• “He went from driver to Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer in Kabul, Afghanistan. He supported a large family that included 3 blind brothers and 2 blind children. On Monday, he was killed while covering a rush-hour suicide bombing.”
• The Atlantic shares a selection of Marai’s work.
• John Reardon, longtime photographer for the Observer, passed away recently. The Guardian shares some of his memorable work.
• In this interview with Focus on the Story, Kirth Bobb chats about street photography and shares some of his favorite D.C. street images, one of which is in our 2018 show!
• Someone photographed an osprey but actually captured a mini food chain in the process.
• Winslow Homer was more than just a painter…some 50 photographs of his along with a long-lost camera of his will be part of an exhibition in Maine.
• Benny Chan has been named the 2018 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award.

Did you get your tickets for the opening of our 12th annual Exposed DC Photography Show yet? Grab them now and mark your calendars for Friday, May 11 to join the party and see the 40 winning photographs displayed and projected throughout the Dupont Underground!

• Head to the opening reception this Sunday for “Space Around Us” at GlenEcho Photoworks, featuring photography by Ira Tattleman. 4 to 6 p.m.
• Last August, photojournalist Ryan Kelly stopped by a Charlottesville rally on his last day in the newsroom before starting a job doing social media for a brewery. On Monday, he won a Pulitzer for the harrowing photo he took that day.
• Stock photography has long lacked diversity, but it looks like people are starting to focus on changing that, from Karen Okonokwo co-creating TONL to Bex Day’s efforts that we shared in a previous Friday Links. Hopefully, this trend continues.
• A new book takes a nostalgic look at New York’s subway through the eyes of legendary photographer Helen Levitt.
• Amateur artists 50 and over who live in Maryland, D.C. or Virginia are invited to enter the Beacon Celebration of the Arts competition. Winners will receive awards, cash prizes (up to $100), as well as public showings of their works, including the opportunity to exhibit at one or more area galleries. $10/entry, deadline: June 29.
• Chilean photojournalist Pilar Vergara’s new book due out next month aims to “capture transgender woman as they are – not as photographers often depict them.”
• A new camera developed by NASA can image underwater coral reefs from space by using “fluid lensing” technology.
• The Washington Post announced the winners of its annual squirrel photo contest (yes, that’s a thing!), and Exposed regular Angela Napili took third place.
• A new KFC ad campaign “photoshopped pieces of fried chicken into photos to make them look like fiery explosions and smoke/vapor plumes” and it’s kind of perfect.