• Earlier this week, World Photography Day was celebrated. Digital Camera World shares the history of how it all started. 
• CNN looked back at some of the most striking photo series published over the last year, from vintage Nigerian style to exploring the relationship between humans and animals.  
• Photographer and educator Stella Johnson explores the elements of light, composition, and shadow in daily life in Crete, Greece.
• Arseniy Neskhodimov was named the overall winner of the Wellcome photography prize this year for his series Prozac that explores the pain of depression and how to cope with it.
• An astronaut and photographer collaboratively document the International Space Station in a new book.
• Jamie Rose, co-founder of Momenta Group and one of our previous Best in Show judges, compiles a list of jobs, events, workshops, and opportunities for photographers and creative content providers.
• Photographs of generations of Black suffragists document their thwarted and central roles in the history of women’s rights.
• Photoworks issued a call for entries for “100 Days of Solitude,” an online exhibition to reflect the world during the strange times of COVID. The entry fee is $25 and includes up to 5 images; deadline for submissions is August 25.
• One man’s trash is another’s…photography set for miniatures? 

• Contemporary landscape photographer E. Brady Robinson will be teaching a 4-week intensive master class through Photoworks, August 9 through 30 on Zoom, $350.
• Touchstone Gallery is accepting submissions for the exhibition “Us: What divides us and what unites us?” The entry fee is $20 per artwork, and the deadline for entries is August 17.
• Martin Kaninsky’s latest video takes a look at how Ansel Adams revolutionized landscape photography and offers a peek into his early years.
• After filing for bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been looking for ways to reinvent itself, producing advanced chemicals for pharmaceuticals now instead of photography. 
• The Photography Show Virtual Festival will be held September 20-21. Register for free to attend online.
• PHmuseum rounds up photography awards and opportunities that are currently available.
• This video shows you how to use LEGO blocks and tinfoil for digital pinhole photography.
• Capital Photography Center is running in-person classes with safety practices in place, and they still have online options available if you prefer learning from home.

• The National Museum of Women in the Arts is reopening tomorrow with an option to buy timed tickets in advance online. Also opening tomorrow is the “Return to Nature” exhibit featuring 20 photographs by 11 artists, more than half of which are being exhibited for the first time. 
• TIME explores the history of photographic film and how it captured the bias in American culture.  
• The Wellcome Photography Prize 2020 announced shortlisted entries in each of the five categories this year: social perspectives, hidden worlds, medicine in focus, and two categories on mental health.
• Paul Fusco, known for his images taken from Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral train in 1968, died earlier this month. His work also included visits to the Chernobyl area, funerals of soldiers killed in the war in Iraq, coal miners in Kentucky in 1959, and AIDS patients in San Francisco in 1993.
• CNET reviewed the new Profoto B10 designed to be the first professional light that can be used with an iPhone.
• Jeff Mermelstein has been photographing stranger’s phone screens in NYC, capturing texts and searches, spanning from drug deals to hook-ups and more obscure and mundane activities, and sharing them on Instagram and now in a photo book. 
• Submissions are open through August 17 for the 2020 Washington Post Travel photo contest. 
• Christie’s is auctioning off 38 seminal works by sports photography GOAT Walter Iooss Jr., who shares some of his experiences and techniques capturing the iconic images.
• The International Photography Hall of Fame announced the 2020 inductees and award recipients. This year it will host its first-ever hybrid live/virtual induction ceremony in October.

• 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.”