Stop by the DC History Conference today from 1-3 p.m. to say hello to us during the History Network expo at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. We’re also looking forward to our virtual roundtable with Photoworks on Thursday, April 7 at 7:00 p.m. Register to join us for the special spring session and share a fave image with the group for live feedback.

• Ukrainian documentary and portrait photographer Alexander Chekmenev has been visually chronicling his country’s post-Soviet life since the 1990s, and his recent series of portraits show citizens of Kyiv.
• On April 12, Glencarlyn Public Library is hosting an evening of news photography and history with Gerald Martineau, a retired photographer for The Washington Post.
• Canon announced the winners of its sustainability-themed “Moments that Matter” photography competition.
• A wildlife photographer got up real close when a great grey owl swooped in and landed on her lens.
• Photographer Gary He spent three months embedded in a New York City restaurant, Saigon Social, to capture what it faced during the Omicron surge for The New York Times.
• The first-ever institutional survey of artist Marcia Resnick looks at how she pushed photography to its conceptual boundaries during the 70s and 80s.
• Black Women Photographers and Live Nation Urban are partnering to hire Black women photographers nationwide to shoot music festivals and concerts.
• The next installment of The Photography Show and Video Show’s series of free online sessions will focus on macro photography with Geraint Radford on April 7 at 2:30 p.m. EDT.

Join Exposed DC and Glen Echo Photoworks for a free virtual roundtable on the theme of spring on April 7 at 7:00 p.m. Connect with fellow photographers, share your latest work to get live feedback, and find out what everyone’s been up to lately! Space is limited, so please register to let us know you’ll be there.

• Photographer Charles Daniels’ 3,200 undeveloped film rolls chronicle decades of rock and roll. The oldest roll he’s developed is a Kodak film that expired in 1908.
• The Northeast Neighborhood Library is holding a photography contest to find the best pictures of the library. Entries are due by March 31.
• In an ancient ritual, Bulgaria’s kukeri dancers wear dramatic costumes to dispel evil and invite good. 
• The 11th annual WPOW Seminar + Portfolio Review will be held virtually on April 30. Tickets are $150 for the general public and $75 for students.
• Join PortraitMeetDC tomorrow from 3:00-6:00 p.m. for a cherry blossom themed event.
• The DC History Conference takes place next weekend. Register now and be sure to swing by the History Network to see Exposed DC on Friday, April 1 from 1:00-3:00 p.m.
• Christie’s is slated to offer an Andy Warhol silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe for an estimated $200 million next month.

• Head to Photoworks tomorrow from 4:00-6:00 p.m. for the rescheduled gallery reception for Jennifer Sakai and Philip Taplin’s exhibition.
• The Daily podcast looks at the story behind a defining war photo captured by photojournalist Lynsey Addario in Ukraine.
• Reserve a spot for the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ online conversation about the contributions of women in the field of photography on Wednesday from 2:30-4:00 p.m., free.
• Join StreetMeetDC for a meetup on Sunday at Dupont Circle.
• Save the date for the DC History Conference at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library: March 31-April 2. Better yet, register now and then swing by the History Network on April 1 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. to say hello to us!
• Elliott Landy spent two years photographing Janis Joplin in the late 60s, and several of his previously unreleased photos are part of a book that’s just been published.
• Aline Smithson, one of the photographers recognized in this year’s Hasselblad Heroines series, shares her favorite photo series and about her journey in photography.
• The Guardian chronicles the war in Ukraine with twenty photographs.

• Join Photoworks for a gallery reception for Jennifer Sakai and Philip Taplin’s exhibit tomorrow from 4:00-6:00 p.m. You can also join them for a virtual artist talk on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
• COAL + ICE, an immersive documentary photography exhibition that visualizes the climate crisis through the work of over 50 photographers and video artists from around the world, opens on Tuesday at the Kennedy Center.
• The three recipients of the third annual Leica Women Foto Project Award were announced this week.
• Joseph Wyman Brown captures modern people using wet plate tintype photography.
• Photographer and historian Amy Flagg is remembered for her work and being ahead of her time as one of few women photographers working in the UK and covering the destruction of World War II.
• Winners of the 2021 World Nature Photography Awards have been announced with the grand prize going to an image of a leopard seal hunting a penguin.
• The Mobile Photography Awards announced the winners of their 11th annual competition.
• A photographer works remotely with a father-daughter duo to recreate iconic movie scenes.