• Influential women photographers discuss what it means to be a photographer in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 30 at 4:00 p.m. for “Our City, Ourselves: Women Photograph Washington,” free and open to the public, pre-registration required.
• Fluorescent light, red dye, and gelatin are the ingredients of an emerging photography technique that allows scientists to better visualize the skeletons of animals.
• Art collector Daniel Wolf, who quietly amassed 25,000 photos for the J. Paul Getty Museum thereby jump-starting collectors’ interest in the medium, died earlier this year.
• The new exhibition Dreamland by Helene Schmitz opened this week at the House of Sweden. While they are currently closed to the public, virtual guided tours of the exhibition will be held on Zoom this weekend and next, and the exhibition will be on display through December.
• Join the International Center of Photography March 29 through April 2 for the online series, “The Rules Are Broken: A Year in Imagemaking,” which will explore the impact the pandemic, social movements, and a year lived through screens had on imagemaking.
• On April 1, Blake Gopnik will join author Andy Grundberg in a virtual launch celebration to discuss his new book that’s described as part memoir and part history on how photography became contemporary art.
• Photographers in the Somali Arts Foundation’s exhibition, Still Life, aim to take control of Somalia’s story and present a fuller, fairer portrayal of life in the country, as well as wanting it to become normal for women to take photos there.
• Eighteen years ago, 24 photographers agreed to document New Year’s Day for 24 years. Preview a selection of their work, which will be on display in London in one of the first exhibitions to reopen in the UK after coronavirus lockdowns.
• Karen Marshall began a project in 1985, documenting female friendship over the course of three decades, starting with the group’s junior year in high school.

• 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.