Have you entered our annual photography contest yet? You have until Wednesday, January 9 at midnight to get your entries submitted! Save the date for our next happy hour on January 15 at 801 Restaurant & Bar, where we will be kicking off another year of celebrating local photography and toasting to the winners of the contest.

• Vox pays tribute to women and non-binary photographers in their 2018 year in review. The gallery includes Exposed alum Kaitlin Jencso’s image of a Christine Blasey Ford supporter outside the Kavanaugh hearings.
• Registration for the Focus on the Story festival is now open! Take advantage of the flash sale that ends today to get a great discount.
• Join the founder of Washington, DC History & Culture tomorrow at the Newseum for a group visit focused on photography and photojournalism. Please note that attendees will need to purchase their own tickets for admission to the Newseum.
• The Independent shares how photographers captured 2018’s most compelling moments in a two-part series (part two here). 
• Pete Mauney began taking time-lapse photographs of planes coming and going at night after photographing fireflies reminded him of his childhood observations of airplanes circling Manhattan. 
• Photographer Li Zhensheng worked at a local newspaper in northeastern China in the 1960s, taking over 30,000 images that document a turbulent time in modern Chinese history that the ruling Communist Party tries to hide and that he is trying to share with his fellow Chinese.
• Photo District News shares the technology and trends they are excited about for 2019.
• RSVP now for the Visual Art Town Hall Meeting happening on January 26 to learn about Logan Fringe Arts Space renovation and the programs that will be offered.

Have some time off for the holidays? Enter our 13th annual photo contest to show us what captures your eye while living and working in the D.C. area. We hope you all enjoy the holiday season and our last Friday Links of the year… See you in 2019!

• The New Yorker shares some of its favorite images of the year.
• The Guardian has its top 10 photography shows of 2018.
• PBS News Hour takes a look at photographers Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin’s documentation of rural America over the years.
• The Community Collective’s next pop-up series featuring 16 photographers will be Sunday, December 30 at Creative Hands Studio at 52 O St., 3-6 p.m.
• Steve McCurry joined Kate Snow for a 15-minute segment on NBC Nightly News to talk about his career and how he got into photography.
• Focus on the Story has announced the initial lineup for the 2019 festival. Stay tuned for updates and registration to open soon.
• Verónica Sanchis Bencomo talks with The New York Times about creating Foto Féminas, an online community for Latin American women photographers.
• If you’re looking for some holiday photography ideas, an Olympus designer and photographer shared his tutorial for creating Christmas tree shaped bokeh.

In case you missed the exciting news, our 13th annual photography contest is officially open for entries! What better time than now to reminisce about the last year while perusing your photos to find the perfect ones to submit. Entries are accepted through January 9, 2019. Now back to your regularly scheduled Friday Links:

• Head to Big Bear Cafe on Tuesday for Stop Motion’s quarterly photography slideshow, 7-9 p.m. There will be a printed publication available for sale as well.
• Winners have been announced for the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition, which celebrates the power of photography to capture science.
• Ragnar Axelsson is photographing the disappearing glaciers of Iceland, an experience that he says can be “like being on a different planet.”
• Photoworks hosts the first solo exhibition of work from Frank Van Riper’s book, Recovered Memory: New York & Paris 1960-1980. A reception, gallery talk, and book signing will be held tonight from 6-8 p.m.
• The British Journal of Photography explores how photography is used to shed light on health-related matters.
• Peter Jackson’s new World War I documentary adds color and realism to original footage shot in black and white on hand-cranked cameras.
• Join Robert K. Headley and Exposed alum Pat Padua for their “Historic Movie Theaters of Washington, DC” book signing event at AFI Silver Theatre this Saturday, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
• Annie Leibovitz answers the 10 questions she is asked most frequently.