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.

Get your tickets now for our huge May 11 opening of the 12th annual Exposed DC Photography Show! You don’t want to miss the 40 winning photographs displayed and projected throughout the Dupont Underground.

• Head to the National Gallery of Art this afternoon and tomorrow for a program on history, photography, and race in the South.
• National Geographic’s special monthly happy hour on April 19 will focus on Unexpected Origins, 5:30-8 p.m., $20.
• Dayanita Singh, frustrated with the conventional gallery format, has taken to creating portable “pocket museums” instead for her latest exhibition.
• George Rodriguez talks about his experience with photography of two very different types in L.A.
• Elaborately made-up toy cars are the star of Carlos Hernandez’s recreated movie scenes.
• WTOP reviews the biography of Berenice Abbott out this week by Julia Van Haaften, founding curator of the New York Public Library’s photography collection.
• If you ❤ analog photography you will probably ❤ this mini-documentary tribute to it.
• It’s plastic as far as the eye can see in this series by conservation photographer Pete Oxford.
• “The key to storm chasing is to not end up being chased by the storm.”

 

• Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs opens today at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with a slideshow and panel discussion, 4-7 p.m.
• AP photographer Pablo Martinez Monsivais revisited parts of D.C. that experienced rioting after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 50 years ago and found a city showing few traces remaining from those days of rage.
• The Zeiss Photography Award winner has been announced, along with nine shortlisted photographers.
• The CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition also announced its winners, who were asked this year to focus on examining cities from a perspective of connectivity.
• Aidan Williams is literally taking his photography to new heights as he documents slackliners around the world.
• Adobe has revamped Lightroom and Camera Raw’s treatment of raw files. Some photographers are calling the update major.
• Tim Franco uses an old wooden 4×5 camera to photograph defectors from North Korea in “Unperson,” his new portrait series.

• We still have more than a week before the cherry blossoms reach peak bloom. Get inspired with some new ideas for how to capture them with this Capital Photography Center field class on Sunday.
• Head to Johns Hopkins SAIS on Tuesday for a special event about the sights, sounds, and stories of pre-war Syria, including documentary photography by Jason Hamacher from his travels between 2005 and 2010.
• The National Endowment of the Arts recently reported that photography and photo services contribute $10.2 billion to the U.S. economy.
• 25 artists have been shortlisted for the Contemporary African Photography Prize.
• Estevan Oriol started documenting L.A. street culture over 25 years ago, photographing communities he was part of and sides of the city often misrepresented.
• Photographer Bex Day has embarked on a project to make stock photography more inclusive of transgender persons.
• This U-2 pilot captured the Northern Lights from a new high. The results are nothing short of incredible.
• Make of this one what you will: Government photographers may get a few more jobs now that the “Ego Act” has been signed into law, banning government officials from using taxpayer dollars to get their oil portraits done.
• See the winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 2018 photo contest.
• Enjoy these moody animal portraits by George Wheelhouse.