Click DC is in full swing, with photography events all around D.C. through the rest of the month! Join us for happy hour at City Tap Dupont on Wednesday, June 12 from 6-8 p.m. to chat about your favorites so far and what you’re looking forward to that’s still to come. We’re excited to offer some classes in partnership with Knowledge Commons DC. Registration for the first one just opened up this morning: “Taking it to the Streets” with Mukul Ranjan, June 15 from 3-5 p.m. Stay tuned for the next one!

• Head to Touchstone Gallery tonight from 6:00-8:30 p.m. for an opening reception that includes photography exhibits by Michael Lang and Ryan Feipel.
• Also tonight, Photoworks at Glen Echo Park is holding a reception and gallery talk for the American Dream Revisited exhibit that features work of various local artists including several Exposed alum, 7-9 p.m.
• The DC Street Photography Collective invite you to their meetup this Saturday from 5-9 p.m. where you can take photos in the Dupont area, say hello to members of the collective (we spy more Exposed alum!), and chat about photography.
• Photojournalist and former official White House staff photographer Lawrence Jackson will hold a talk and Q&A at S. Dillon Ripley Center this Sunday, 2 p.m., $25.  
• Stop Motion Vol 6: Black & White Photography will be at American Ice Company on Tuesday, June 11 from 7-9 p.m. with the slideshow starting promptly at 8 p.m. 
• The Cancelling of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition opens on Thursday, June 13. The exhibit will explore the highly politicized and publicized cancellation of the 1989 exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment.
• Young people who have fled their homes share their experiences finding photography through National Geographic photo camps. An exhibition featuring photos, video, and text that explore these stories is on display at the Kennedy Center through June 20.
• Lighting and photographing Porsche race cars is challenging, rewarding, and an all-around special experience for advertising photographer and racing fan, Blair Bunting.

• The kickoff party for Focus on the Story and Click DC is tonight at Dupont Underground, 7-10 p.m. Entry is included with festival registration or $30 at the door. You can view the full festival schedule here as well as what’s in store all through June with Click DC.
• Don’t forget to get your tickets for Critical Exposure’s Annual Exhibit of Youth Photography for Social Justice, “Made You Look,” on June 6 at Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, 6:00-8:30 p.m., $25 suggested donation. 
• A White Sox employee tasked with the ceremonial first pitch of a game seemed to only have eyes for the team photographer as she threw the ball directly at his camera’s lens.
• PortraitMeet DC is heading to The Yards Park on Sunday, 12-3 p.m.
• The renovation of a 135-year-old photography shop in Yellowstone recalls the history of photography in the national park over the years.
• Giulia Frigieri set out to photograph Iran’s surfer movement after watching a documentary about a school set up in Baluchestan that teaches men, women, and children how to surf. 
• New York Times opinion writer Jamelle Bouie shares how his first-ever photography exhibition “Simply: The Black Towns” came to be.