• Head to the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop tonight for an artist talk with Jamelle Bouie—a prolific photographer when he’s not working as Slate’s chief political correspondent. 7 to 9 p.m.
• Join Exposed alum Geoff Livingston on a free photo walk in Alexandria tomorrow starting at 5 p.m.
• Sign up for an exclusive after-hours photography workshop on October 19 at the National Air and Space Museum. Attendees will learn lighting and composition tips from experts who work with large objects, using the Apollo Lunar Module, the Star Trek Enterprise model, and Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega. Sign up by Monday, October 8; 40 participants will be selected.
• Join us at our monthly happy hour on Tuesday, October 9 from 6-8 p.m. at City Tap Dupont. Hang out with fellow photographers and the Exposed team, including our newest volunteer Thurston Willis who is helping feature all your great work on Instagram.
• Women Photojournalists of Washington announced the winners of their 12th Annual Juried Exhibition. Among the winning photographers are regular Exposed alums Ellie Van Houtte and Erika Nizborksi.
• A photo editor for two decades, Robert Miller decided to pick up a camera again and walk through D.C. to get back in touch with his street photography side.
• Sony is looking for five female photographers or filmmakers to help add some balance to a traditionally male-dominated industry. Each selected photographer will receive a $25,000 grant and $5,000 to spend on Sony gear.
• D.C. photographer, educator, and Exposed alum, Amanda Archibald, will be teaching another Fancy Camera Workshop at Fostr Collaborative on October 13, 10 a.m., $75. This class is specifically designed for those who want to learn more about how their own cameras work and those elusive manual exposure settings.
• Lenny Kravitz turned a dinner and dance party into a photography project and exhibition that also incorporates his design work and new role as creative director of Dom Perignon.

• Sandy Sugawara’s exhibit, Places We Find, opens at Photoworks today with a reception and gallery talk tomorrow, 4-6 p.m.
• Art All Night kicks of at 7 p.m. Saturday and runs until 3 a.m. Check the community-run Facebook group for photographers to find out more about scheduled events, logistics, and photography advice. goARTful will also be there at the Shaw Art Market at 7th & R Streets; swing by to check out the photography collection we collaborated on that features Exposed alum.
• Gear Patrol is keeping tabs on the biggest photography news from photokina.
• Artist Chris Engman brings natural landscapes indoors by securing large-scale photographs to a room’s walls, ceilings, and floors. His latest work, Containment, allows viewers to actually step inside the installation.
• The new Photobox Instagram Photography Awards seeks to acknowledge the best of Instagram, as chosen by a panel of judges, in ten categories.
• The Guardian provides a glimpse into the world’s largest ever exhibition of tiger photography.
• Join Exposed alum Geoff Livingston for a free photo walk in Alexandria on October 6 as part of the annual Global Photowalk Celebration, 5 p.m.
• Winners of the 2018 Beacon Celebration of the Arts will be honored in person and have their work displayed at the Beacon 50+ Expo at Springfield Town Center this Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. The photography category was curated by our very own Noe Todorovich.

• Join Exposed alum Amanda Archibald at a photo exhibition and silent auction on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at Fostr Collaborative from 6-8 p.m. to learn about her experience working with the Snapshot Dhaka Team in Bangladesh this summer with a group of her high school photography students.
• The 10-part series, “Voices of African Photography” continues with Yassine Alaoui Ismaili’s documentation of Casablanca.
• If you own an iPhone, here’s how iOS 12 might affect your mobile photography.
• Submissions for the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo are accepted through October 15.
• A Texas-based photographer has attended hundreds of estate sales to photograph the possessions on sale—from an expansive Playboy magazine collection down to the toilet paper holder on the wall in the bathroom.
• 202filmcollective will hold a low light film photography workshop at Glen Echo Park on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 6 p.m.
• Teju Cole, a novelist and photographer, is collaborating with Vijay Iyer, a composer and jazz pianist, on an experimental performance that will blend Cole’s photography and words with Iyer’s music.
• LA Times photographer Carolyn Cole contributes to a report on Puerto Rico one year after Hurricane Maria.
• Wired Magazine is turning 25, and wrote about how they got the 50 portraits—25 icons and 25 people looking to the future—for the issue.
• The Downtown Hyattsville Arts Festival: Arts & Ales is tomorrow from 12-6 p.m., free. Over 100 artists and artisans, including photographers, will participate as vendors.

• The Photoworks Gallery 2019 Call for Proposals closes October 1. Both solo and group exhibitions are accepted.
• IA&A at Hillyer is also accepting proposals for their 2019-2020 exhibition season. The application fee is $40, and the deadline is September 20.
• Stop Motion’s third photography slideshow is happening Wednesday at Dodge City, 7-9 p.m.
• Greg Miller is a photographer and father who was asked to document the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting and was understandably haunted by it. Now he’s released a photo series showing children as they wait for the school bus to capture that universal experience of anticipation and vulnerability.
• Graeme Green explores how photography can be a powerful force and how some photographers try to give back and make sure they aren’t exploiting their subjects.
• Art All Night is coming up September 29. Get ready for the festivities by joining the community-run Facebook group for photographers to share info about events, logistics, photography tips, etc. You can also join the Flickr group now to be ready to submit images when the time comes.
• Kodak is launching a fashion line with Forever 21, part of the branding team’s efforts to “return Kodak to being one of the world’s best-known, best-loved brands.”
• Richard Renaldi discusses his photography projects, “Touching Strangers,” and his latest, more personal one, “I Want Your Love.”

Join us TONIGHT at an opening reception for the new Crystal City Fotowalk. Explore the exhibit on your way over from the metro station and then stop by Gallery Underground to say hello, grab a drink and snacks, and see even more art. Now let’s dive into some links…

• Join Exposed alum Amanda Archibald for an Intro to Product Styling + Photography workshop at Steadfast Supply this Sunday, 1-3 p.m., $35 (materials and snacks included). Learn to style products for branding, website, and social media use.
• Stop Motion is seeking black and white photography from the D.C. metro area for their third slideshow. Deadline for entries is this Sunday.
• Antonio Guerra explores interaction between human and nature in his mind-bending, conceptual series, “Ver de Acción.”
• Canon and Nikon may be late to the mirrorless game, but their arrival on the scene further solidifies mirrorless cameras’ role in the future of photography.
• Exposed alum (and featured photographer in the new Fotowalk exhibit) Chris Suspect will be hosting a Day of the Dead workshop in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico from Oct. 29 through Nov. 4.
• The Washington Post has partnered with the African Photojournalism Database to highlight the work of 10 African photographers and photojournalists through a 10-part series.
• Wikimedia Commons announced their annual Wiki Loves Monuments call for entries through the end of September.
• The Guardian recently obtained documents that show a National Park Service photographer edited photos at the insistence of President Trump and Sean Spicer to make the inauguration crowds look bigger.
• Women aren’t allowed in soccer stadiums in Iran for men’s matches, but that didn’t stop Parisa Pourtaherian from becoming the first female photographer to shoot a national soccer league match.
• Slovakian photographer Mária Švarbová synchronizes swimmers both in and out of the water.
• Stanley Kubrick became a staff photographer for Look magazine at the age of 17. An exhibit in New York explores some of his early work.