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.

Just one week until our 2018 Annual Photography Show opens… ONE WEEK! You have until Friday, May 11 at noon to buy your advanced tickets online for $15 or you can get them at the door for $20. We can’t wait to see everyone at Dupont Underground and celebrate another year of awesome D.C. photography!

• “He went from driver to Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer in Kabul, Afghanistan. He supported a large family that included 3 blind brothers and 2 blind children. On Monday, he was killed while covering a rush-hour suicide bombing.”
• The Atlantic shares a selection of Marai’s work.
• John Reardon, longtime photographer for the Observer, passed away recently. The Guardian shares some of his memorable work.
• In this interview with Focus on the Story, Kirth Bobb chats about street photography and shares some of his favorite D.C. street images, one of which is in our 2018 show!
• Someone photographed an osprey but actually captured a mini food chain in the process.
• Winslow Homer was more than just a painter…some 50 photographs of his along with a long-lost camera of his will be part of an exhibition in Maine.
• Benny Chan has been named the 2018 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award.

Get your advanced tickets to our huge celebration featuring the winners of the 2018 Exposed DC photography contest. Join us at Dupont Underground on May 11 for this great display of local images.

• SmugMug just bought Flickr and vows to revitalize the service. Fast Company thinks it’s positioning to be a real competitor to Instagram as a safe place for photographers.
• Find out a bit more about Diane Arbus’ portfolio, “A box of ten photographs,” and then go see it for yourself at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
• Learn how to begin collecting photography with this lecture at Glen Echo Photoworks this Sunday, 4 p.m. Free but registration requested.
• A U.S. appeals court has ruled that animals cannot sue for copyright infringement.
• Last Friday was the eight year anniversary of the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
• Here’s the winning shot that got Noor Ahmed Gelal a food photographer of the year award.
• Paul Morse talks to New York Magazine about his photo of four presidents and four first ladies.
• Check out the world’s fastest camera car: a $200,000 Lamborghini with over $500,000 of modifications. Even with all the camera gear, its still got a top speed of 201 mph.
• Cosmos magazine looks back at how John William Draper used science to develop early photographic methods.
• The winners of the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards were announced this week.
• Do turtles have good table manners?

 

Did you get your tickets for the opening of our 12th annual Exposed DC Photography Show yet? Grab them now and mark your calendars for Friday, May 11 to join the party and see the 40 winning photographs displayed and projected throughout the Dupont Underground!

• Head to the opening reception this Sunday for “Space Around Us” at GlenEcho Photoworks, featuring photography by Ira Tattleman. 4 to 6 p.m.
• Last August, photojournalist Ryan Kelly stopped by a Charlottesville rally on his last day in the newsroom before starting a job doing social media for a brewery. On Monday, he won a Pulitzer for the harrowing photo he took that day.
• Stock photography has long lacked diversity, but it looks like people are starting to focus on changing that, from Karen Okonokwo co-creating TONL to Bex Day’s efforts that we shared in a previous Friday Links. Hopefully, this trend continues.
• A new book takes a nostalgic look at New York’s subway through the eyes of legendary photographer Helen Levitt.
• Amateur artists 50 and over who live in Maryland, D.C. or Virginia are invited to enter the Beacon Celebration of the Arts competition. Winners will receive awards, cash prizes (up to $100), as well as public showings of their works, including the opportunity to exhibit at one or more area galleries. $10/entry, deadline: June 29.
• Chilean photojournalist Pilar Vergara’s new book due out next month aims to “capture transgender woman as they are – not as photographers often depict them.”
• A new camera developed by NASA can image underwater coral reefs from space by using “fluid lensing” technology.
• The Washington Post announced the winners of its annual squirrel photo contest (yes, that’s a thing!), and Exposed regular Angela Napili took third place.
• A new KFC ad campaign “photoshopped pieces of fried chicken into photos to make them look like fiery explosions and smoke/vapor plumes” and it’s kind of perfect.