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Friday Links: May 24, 2024

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Photo By: Avery Ruel

Friday Links: May 17, 2024

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Photo By: Mike Maguire
  • The 2024 first-place ZEKE Award winners, Sarah Fretwell and Natalya Saprunova, will have a live presentation also broadcast on Zoom this Monday at 7:30 p.m.
  • Last weekend, an extreme solar storm brought spectacular northern lights to regions across the world. Some even caught a glimpse of them in D.C. during a short window just before dawn on Saturday.
  • The MId-Atlantic Photo Visions’ student competition is open to any high school or rising 9th-grade student from the DMV area with a grand prize of $500 and $100 for nine other finalists. The deadline for entires is May 28.
  • Join PortraitMeetDC tomorrow in Georgetown for a city cruise themed meet from 4:00-7:00 p.m.
  • StreetMeetDC will also be out tomorrow starting at 5:00 p.m. at the NoMa metro station. They’ll also be partnering with StreetMeetMD on their first special event happening at Brookside Gardens on June 1 and 2; you can reserve your spot now on their website.
  • HEMPHILL is hosting a book signing with photographer, Janet Fries, on May 21. Email the gallery to RSVP.
  • Google Research and scientists at Harvard University have created groundbreaking new digital images, models, and 3D maps illustrating the physical structure of the brain.
  • The Bill Thomas Historic Preservation Photo Collection depicts neighborhoods, roads and highways, shopping centers, various buildings, parks, and playgrounds across Arlington County from the 1920s through the 1980s.
  • The 148th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show took place in New York City over the past week, showcasing more than 3,000 dogs of 200 different breeds and varieties. They’re good dogs, Brent.

Friday Links: May 10, 2024

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Photo by: @osoikame
  • Head to Glen Echo Photoworks for an insightful discussion on the ever-changing world of photojournalism with Robb Hill and Sebastian Hesse-Kastein, tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.
  • The work of Gerald Annan-Forson, a significant photographer of Ghana’s political history, is being shown in the United States for the first time, at the Howard University Museum in the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
  • The Touchstone Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship is accepting applications for 2025-2026 through July 7.
  • The Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions High School Student Photo Contest will be open for online entries from May 13 to May 28.  The contest is open to any high school or rising 9th-grade student from Washington, D.C. and nearby counties in Maryland and Virginia.  The grand prize is $500, and nine other finalists win $100 each.  Bookmark this link that will go live on May 13.
  • The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced this week.
  • Women Photograph is accepting applications for their 2024 project grants for women & nonbinary photographers through May 15.
  • Women Photograph will also pair five early career photographers with an industry leader as a mentor and provide $2,000 in support for work on a local visual storytelling project over the course of six months through their mentorship program. The deadline to apply is June 5.
  • Rumors about what cameras are under development and coming soon abound.

Friday Links: May 3, 2024

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Photo by: Chris Bridner

Thanks to everyone who came by last Sunday for our cyanotype event and thanks to Photoworks and Mac Cosgrove-Davies for a fun and informative experience! It was so fun to see you and your cyanotype creations. We’ll be having some more events like this in the near future, so if you missed it stay tuned for another opportunity. If you have ideas for other events you’d like to see as well, let us know!

  • Head to Lost Origins Gallery tomorrow night for the opening reception for “Truly Blessed,” an exhibition of 28 photographs from Chris Suspect’s new book that documents a marginalized community’s response to racial and religious discrimination.
  • The deadline for Glen Echo Photoworks’ juried call for entries for “Good Sports” is Monday, May 6. The entry fee is $40 for five images.
  • Enter Dodge Chrome’s Spring 2024 Photo Contest by May 31. You can submit up to 3 entries per category: Colors of Spring, Dark and Light, and Pattern & Texture.
  • WeTransfer has put together New Rules, a series from WePresent that interrogates how to thrive as an artist in unstable creative industries that are changing, starting with photography.
  • An exhibition opens Monday in the library at the National Gallery of Art that brings together a team of book and print artists to create handcrafted book objects that combine real photographic prints with finely printed texts and artisan bindings that highlight trends in contemporary photography.
  • Black Women Photographers and Format announced the winner of their Portfolio Giveaway & Grant, along with five runners-up.
  • Maureen Minehan’s solo exhibition, THERE AND BACK, explores the beauty inherent in solitude in the terrain between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The exhibit is on view at Multiple Exposures Gallery from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily through May 19.

Friday Links: April 26, 2024

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Photo by: shotbyemmasergei

Join us Sunday afternoon at Photoworks to create your own cyanotype print. Mac Cosgrove-Davies, a Photoworks instructor and one of the exhibiting photographers in our 2024 show, will share all about the process and provide special hand-coated paper for you to use. Various objects will be provided, and you can even bring your own medium or large format negatives to try out. We’ll be there from 2-5 p.m. You can drop by, create a print, and explore the grounds while it dries. The event is free and family friendly; hope to see you there!

  • Join StreetMeetDC in Old Town Alexandria tomorrow starting at 3 p.m. as they stroll from City Hall to Waterfront Park.
  • Get your tickets now for Critical Exposure’s introductory photography workshop on Saturday, May 4. Profits will benefit Critical Exposure in their mission to train D.C. youth to harness the power of photography and their own voices to fight for educational equity and social justice.
  • Submit up to five images by May 6 to Photoworks’ call for entries for “Good Sports,” an exhibit to be juried by John McDonnell; the entry fee is $40.
  • Last week, judges announced the four global winners of the World Press Photo Contest.
  • A new exhibit, “Escape” by T.J. Kirkpatrick, opens at Lost Origins Outside on Sunday from 3-5 p.m.
  • A photo taken two days after the sinking of the Titanic purportedly shows the iceberg that doomed the ship in 1912.
  • Save the date for the opening reception for Exposed alum Chris Suspect’s “Truly Blessed” exhibit, featuring 28 photos from his latest photo book, at Lost Origins Gallery on Saturday, May 4.
  • Join Social Documentary Network on Thursday at noon for an online presentation and discussion on “Women Changing the Face of Documentary Photography” with Aida Muluneh, Smita Sharma, and Leah DeVun, moderated by J. Sybylla Smith.