• The annual FotoweekDC competition ends tonight. Get your images in Fine Art, Photojournalism, and a catch-all category submitted before midnight for a chance to be in the November exhibit.
• The City Paper’s Louis Jacobson reviews the new show at Leica Store DC by Sara B. May on the aftermath of the Ebola crisis. “May’s work reminds us how worthwhile such a pursuit can be.“
• Head to Glen Echo Photoworks on Sunday to see their exhibit “Foodies” and attend the next installment of their lecture series on food photography, which will include some (presumably very pretty) snacks from local chefs. $30, 4 p.m.
• The Community Collective is hosting a happy hour next Thursday, October 5 at Sospeso.
• Robert Delpire, known for publishing and designing influential photobooks of the 20th century, passed away this week. Magnum shares some of his great accomplishments in memoriam.
• Get a sneak peek of some entries in the Sony World Photography Awards 2018 competition.
• Catherine Leroy’s photos and letters share her experience as a photojournalist covering the Vietnam War.
• October is almost here. Get in the mood with Misty Keasler’s new photobook on haunted houses.
• Let’s all click our heels and wish together that we’re riding horses through the Icelandic countryside.

Join us for our next monthly happy hour, Wednesday, September 27 at Jack Rose Dining Saloon.

• Tonight, head to the opening reception at Leica Store DC for “After the Crisis,” featuring the work of photojournalist Sara May documenting people of Sierra Leone rebuilding after Ebola swept through their communities. 7 to 9 p.m.
• Learn the skills of portrait photography with Exposed DC alum Amanda Archibald during a Portrait Photography workshop with a live model in Adams Morgan this Saturday, 10 a.m., $25.
• The exhibit DC LIQUOR features 66 photographs of liquor stores taken by Flore de Préneuf between June 2015 and July 2017 in Washington DC. Opening reception: Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m.
• Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., Washington Photo Safari will be hosting a benefit photo safari to raise money for victims of Hurricane Harvey.
• Mic talks to director of photography Ava Berkofsky of HBO’s hit series Insecure about how she mastered the cinematic lighting of black faces, including some discussion of Kodak’s old Shirley cards that used white women as “standard.”
• If someone in the Nikon marketing department needs help being introduced to female photographers, give us–or literally anyone else on the planet–a call so we can usher you into 2017.
• Check out the winners of the 2017 APA awards in advertising, editorial, photojournalism and more.
• Serene squirrels and hitchhiking seahorses–In Focus has the finalists of the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.

• NPR writes about how zoos prepare for hurricanes, and the accompanying image by Max Trujillo from 1998 of flamingos camped out in the men’s room honestly belongs in a modern art museum.
• Reuters launches grant program to develop the next generation of photojournalists and will offer up to eight $5,000 USD grants.
• A photojournalist in Ohio was injured when he was shot by a police officer who allegedly mistook a tripod for a weapon.
• Sign up for one of the many upcoming classes or special events from the Capital Photography Center.
• A formerly homeless photographer discusses the ethical challenges when taking images of homeless people.
• The Lens Rentals blog has a gallery of all the equipment that came back damaged from people shooting the solar eclipse without proper protection.
• Stolen images, a fabricated identity, and catfishing to boot: Eduardo Martins exposed as fraud who has been posing as a war photographer for years.
• An animal shelter shares the difference good photography can make in getting animals adopted. Now where do we get that gold glitter backdrop?
• The “WATCH ME” juried youth photography exhibit at Photoworks closes September 10.

Hello September! Have you had a chance to see our exhibit in Crystal City? Take a left when you get off the metro and stroll down the long hallway (keep going past the theater) to view the work of 88 local photographers.

• You only have until Monday, September 4 to submit your eclipse images to the Focus on the Story contest. Our own Heather Goss is on the jury panel, and winners get cash and publication in their upcoming book (which you can pre-order here).
• The City Paper’s Louis Jacobson reviews the latest juried show at Leica Store DC, which runs through September 13.
• Spotted by @TheX2BusDC Twitter feed: H Street Custom Framing & Photo Lab has opened up near the Atlas theater.
• At DCist, Pablo Iglesias Maurer has made an incredible set of gifs that combine vintage postcards of idyllic scenes with photographs of the abandoned sites today.
• Can you have a little fun with stock photography? Antonio Guillem, the photographer behind the “distracted boyfriend” meme seemed to think so.
• Turkish photographer Yonca Karakas creates eerily picture-perfect images she describes as an exposé of human greed.
• The Washington Post has a harrowing and very well done multimedia story on the victims of Hurricane Harvey.
• The world’s largest tomato fight happens, for some reason, in the small town of Bunol, Spain. The Atlantic has all the best images from the messy jam.
• Some color-sapped flamingo chicks took home the grand prize: See all the 2017 Bird Photographer of the Year Award winners here.