• Twelve young photographers share their stories about how the events of 2020 have shaped them.
• Winners of the 2020 iPhone Photography Awards, the 13th annual contest, were announced this week with one of the winning images being taken with a 10-year-old iPhone 4. 
• The Bronx Documentary Center’s third annual Latin American Foto Festival features award-winning photographers from the Caribbean and Latin America displaying work from a variety of projects that focus on social issues.
• Pablo Iglesias Maurer revisits scenes of once-bustling 1960s resorts in the Poconos and Catskills that were captured in postcards and matchbooks to show how they look now. 
• Take a 40-minute tour through the history of photography with the Royal Institution’s video crash course.
• Wildlife filmmaker and photographer Mithun H captured a rare shot of Saya and Cleopatra, a black panther and his leopard partner, in the Kabini Forest in India.
• View shortlisted images from the Royal Observatory’s annual astronomy photographer competition, from the birth of a new planet to the aurora borealis.
• Children turn to photography as a creative outlet during the pandemic.
• Jeff Divine shares his best photograph: a wipeout on the Pipeline in Oahu, Hawaii.

Join us on Wednesday at 6 p.m. for our virtual roundtable focused on framing. Whether you have a perfect shot in mind to share or you’re looking for some inspiration and direction for your next photography outing, we’d love to see your images and hang out with you for a bit! Register here and we’ll see you online soon.

• Nearly 1,300 people applied for this year’s Women Photograph grants, with winners announced earlier this week.
• The newly launched “Lebanon Then and Now: Photography from 2006 to 2020” exhibition features 50 works by 17 Lebanese art and documentary photographers. Originally planned as a physical exhibition at MEI Art Gallery, it has been reimagined as a virtual installation due to coronavirus.
• Army photographer Melvin C. Shaffer was tasked with capturing the medical story of World War II on film.
• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York received more than 300 works from Gayle Greenhill’s photography collection, which will establish a collection in her name at MoMA as well as create an endowment fund for future exhibitions and acquisitions through the potential sale of some works.
• A Vermont photographer took family “porchtraits” to raise money for a local homeless shelter.
• Video game players are taking their in-game photography to new levels and being inspired by photography greats from real life.
• Livability22202 is seeking input, ideas, and insights about the Crystal City Underground—the area that includes our Fotowalk exhibits and other shops, art, etc. To spur creative thinking about the space, there are three challenges with prizes to be awarded.
• Dario Calmese became the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of Vanity Fair with his image of Viola Davis that is a recreation of an 1863 portrait “The Scourged Back.” He calls the cover his protest and “rewriting this narrative.”

Whether you’re venturing out with your camera or you’re at home and an everyday scene captures your eye, focus on framing and share your image with us during our next virtual roundtable on July 22 at 6 p.m. Register here to let us know you’ll be joining and get all the details for the session and how to share your image with us in the confirmation email.

• In case you missed it, Crystal City BID expanded its boundaries earlier this year and is now known as the National Landing BID. We are excited to continue our partnership on the Underground Fotowalk and will be announcing our next call for entries very soon, so stay tuned!
• On July 15, Eastern Apollo and the Warburg Institute will begin a series of discussions about how museums reflect and refract art forms and other fields. The series will start with “Photography and the Museum,” exploring several questions about photography, its relationship with the gallery, ideal format to share work, and more. 
• Sports photojournalists in North America are anxious to get back to work and share some thoughts about challenges and limitations they may face as COVID-19 continues to impact the industry.
• Freelance writer and photographer Melanie D.G. Kaplan started noticing discarded masks and gloves during her daily outings and decided to start documenting them, taking nearly 700 images since the pandemic began.
• Join Focus on the Story and ZEKE magazine next Friday for a conversation about representation in documentary photography and who can best tell the stories of a culture or people.
• Ted Humble-Smith, a conceptual still life photographer well known for his fashion work, produced a series of images to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the MacRobert Award, which honours examples of remarkable British innovation.
• Tyler Mitchell shares his perspective on the anti-racism protests, photographing Beyoncé for Vogue and the depiction of black people in art.
• Big wave photographer Sachi Cunningham has captured waves up to 60 feet tall and shot the first-ever big wave women’s surf competition in 2016.

We want to thank everyone who has participated in our virtual roundtables for joining us as well as sharing valuable feedback about the work being shared and the sessions themselves. We’d like to explore an idea that was suggested recently to provide the theme in advance along with some additional time for people to make images specifically for the next session. Our next virtual roundtable will focus on framing and is slated for July 22. Hope this provides some inspiration, and we look forward to seeing what you create!

• Big, bittersweet news from our friends at Critical Exposure—Adam Levner, their executive director and one of the organization’s co-founders, is stepping down after 16 years of leadership on August 31. A committee has been appointed to manage the executive search and Koya Leadership Partners has been retained to guide the hiring process. The position profile can be viewed here.
• Earlier this week, Focus on the Story announced the winner of their inaugural visual storytelling grant, as well as the best single image winner and runners up.
• Adorama is encouraging creatives to #CreateNoMatterWhat, with the latest challenge focused on nighttime photography. Photos submitted by July 8 before midnight will be eligible for a prize package worth over $3,000.
• BET features D.C. photographer Tony Mobley’s images as part of a “Content for Change” public service announcement.
• As an exhibition of Gordon Parks’ enduring works opens at a gallery in London, AnOther gathered a selection of his quotes on the power of photography.
• Applications are now open for the Fall 2020 Cohort of the 202Creates Residency Program, which will commence in September. 
• A photography series celebrates unusual sights in London away from tourist hotspots.

• Join Focus on the Story today at 4:00 p.m. for a panel discussion with Black photojournalists and photo editors on their experiences covering the national reckoning on race and justice, their role and responsibility in documenting these historic events, and why it’s critical that Black photographers be front and center in telling this story.
• Earlier this week, Authority Collective, Color Positive, Diversify Photo, The Everyday Projects, Juntos Photo Coop, the National Press Photographers Association, Natives Photograph, and Women Photograph announced the launch of the Photo Bill of Rights—a call to action, guide, ethical code, and framework for lens-based workers globally.
• The Pulitzer Center and Diversify Photo are administering a series of reporting grants for freelance photojournalists to support underreported stories told by journalists historically underrepresented in the American press. Grants will be awarded at $1,000 each, and the application is open through July 19, 2020.
• The Washington Post is seeking a staff photojournalist who will conceive, research, and develop assignments related to issues of race and identity. Applicants need to submit a resume, cover letter, and a portfolio link or PDF by July 6 for consideration.
• Four photographers shared their photos from the Juneteenth Million Moe March with BYT.
• Last Saturday’s 20 photographs of the week selected by The Guardian capture scenes from around the world including the return of soccer, the impact of COVID-19, and Black Lives Matter protests.
• Xapiri, a Cusco-based art gallery and media production studio, is working to raise awareness of the situation facing indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest as they face the pandemic as well as funds to help them navigate it.
• Fstoppers asks readers, “What’s the worst photography advice you’ve ever been given?”
• After 84 years, Olympus announced it is leaving the camera business.