• Momenta is offering tuition scholarships to photographers for its upcoming Project Puerto Rico workshop.
• Artists can apply now to participate in Superfine!, a new art fair coming to Union Market this October, and which promises that over half the exhibitors will be from the metro area.
• Photographers aged 18 and under can submit their images to Glen Echo Photoworks Gallery competition until July 13.
• Audubon announced the winners of its 2018 photography awards, and one super-kid swept all three youth categories.
• How does National Geographic get up close and personal photos of animals in the wild? With custom-made Crittercams, of course.
• A strange new exhibit explores painter Winslow Homer’s inspiration by connecting it to the burgeoning Daguerreotype techniques being developed during his lifetime.
• High speed photography isn’t just for sports—it can also capture exploding paint balloons to crashing waves and beyond.
• Portrait photographer Donald Maclellan did his own version of Where Are They Now by tracking down his old classmates 35 years later. (If you happen to be in Mallaig you can visit Harry Potter movie locations and also Maclellan’s exhibit.)

Summer is officially here! Join us at Blackfinn on Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. for our monthly happy hour to escape the heat and enjoy a cool beverage and great conversation about all things photography and beyond. We’ve got lots of other upcoming events to share this week along with some links…

• Head to the Leica Store tonight for the opening of Almost True, by Steven Bollman, 7-9 p.m. A two-day street photography workshop will follow over the weekend.
• Join DC photogs and Exposed alums Albert Ting and Amanda Archibald tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. for a community portrait workshop at The Loren Apartments in Falls Church and a photo walk in the downtown Falls Church neighborhood. They’ll have live portrait models plus drinks and snacks.
• This Sunday, Washington Photo Safari is hosting a session focused on composition that takes inspiration from the photos in the Crystal City Fotowalk, 2:30-5:00 p.m., $79.
• Photographs of demolished London buildings (before their demise) provide an interesting history of the city’s lesser-known areas.
• Tuesday, June 26 is 202Creates Co-Working Day. Join photographers John Harrington, Keith Lane, and Noe Todorovich and entertainment attorney Hardeep Grover for a discussion about the business side of photography from 2-3 p.m.
• Two photographers’ idea to reconstruct classic photos started as a joke but turned into a book.
• 1854 Media and British Journal of Photography are hosting their first ever OpenWalls event with a call for entries on the theme of “Home & Away.” Fifty shortlisted images will be displayed at Galerie Huit Arles in July 2019.
• The New York Times remembers photojournalist Clemens Kalischer who passed away earlier this month at the age of 97.

• The Focus on the Story International Photo Festival kicked off last night and there’s tons to take in this weekend. See the full schedule of workshops, photo walks, talks and book signings by big names like Martin Parr, an exhibit featuring Exposed alum Chris Suspect, and more. Tonight, find your fellow photography lovers at the opening party at Gallery O on H. Register here.
• Head to Steadfast Supply in Navy Yard on Sunday for a camera workshop with D.C. photographer, educator, and Exposed alum, Amanda Archibald, 1 to 3 p.m. $75.
• Enter the 2018 APA Awards in a slew of categories. Open to all, members get a discount.
• Submit your work to be featured in the first issue of The Khollected, a D.C.-based art and design magazine.
• The two biggest auction houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, are diversifying the photography they use for art, which means we’ll likely see fewer young women being used as props to sell things.
• With primary season well under way, New York Times photographers were out this week taking portraits and talking to voters.
• A photographer who toured with Prince talked to Getty Images about the late singer’s favorite photos of himself.
• A year after Ryan Kelly took his Pulitzer-Prize-winning photo of Marcus Martin after being hit by a car during the Charlottesville rally, the two came together for a much better reason: Kelly photographed Martin’s wedding to Marissa Blair, who was also present that day, just out of frame.

Our 12th annual Exposed DC exhibit is a wrap! A huge thanks to everyone who came out, and to all the photographers who shared their love of the D.C. area with us through images. If you saw a photograph you liked, you can buy a fine art print of it online here. Feel free to email us for more information. Sign up for our newsletter here. Share your photography with us all year on Flickr or by using the hashtag #exposeddc on Instagram. Keep your eyes peeled soon for our June happy hour!

• The Washington Gardener Photo Show opens Sunday, June 3 at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens with a reception, 2-3:30 p.m, free to attend. The 17 winning photos will be on display through July 31.
• Mark Seliger talks with NPR about his desire to “get something that no one else has gotten” when photographing well-known figures.
• Black D.C. natives respond to Washingtonian’s “I’m Not A Tourist” campaign with counter photo shoot.
• United/Divided 2 opens at Glen Echo Photoworks on June 3, 6 to 8 p.m.
• Instagram is rolling out a mute feature. We won’t tell if you won’t.
• L.A. Times photographers head to RuPaul’s DragCon and it’s just as vivid as you imagine.
• Foxes are people! Well, no, but they’re pretty expressive when Ossi Saarinen finds them.
• Women and minority photographers are using digital spaces to their advantage.
• When you set up your remote camera too close too the rocket flames the results are…as expected.