Join us TONIGHT for the opening of our latest Crystal City Fotowalk exhibit.

We’re featuring a series of work from 13 local photographers. You can start the walk by taking a left off the Crystal City metro, and once you reach the end (there’s a break in the exhibit past Synetic theater) join us for a First Friday reception at Gallery Underground between 5 and 8 p.m.

• Focus on the Story has announced that its first International Photography Festival will be June 7 to 10. Get a preview of the wonderful line-up on their site with this interview with Martin Parr.
• Order the inaugural issue of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora featuring over 100 photographers,  and then clear your afternoon for a discussion and signing from 2 to 4 p.m. today at Howard University.
• Bayard Wootten first picked up a camera in 1904, and was so successful at selling her personal postcards, she was hired as the first woman in the North Carolina National Guard, who dubbed her “Chief of Publicity.”
• WETA launched the miniseries “Animals with Cameras” this week. Look up broadcast times here.
• An investigation by Vox revealed that photo editor Patrick Witty was fired from National Geographic after allegations of sexual harassment, but the publication didn’t explain this to the staff until Vox forced its hand.
• Washington Post photographers produced a series on “What Unites Us?“
• Shutterfly announced plans to buy photography company Lifetouch, which takes school photos of around 25 million kids, for $825 million.
• People just can’t seem to get enough of spiritualism and ghost photography.

 

• Danny Wilcox Frazier has been documenting rural communities across the Midwest and the effects of depopulation for 15 years. Head to a reception for his exhibit at the Leica Store DC tonight, 7 to 9 p.m.
• Also at the Leica Store DC on Saturday from 12-3 p.m.: DC Hula Girls studio shooting experience. Loaner cameras will be available but be sure to bring your own SD card. RSVP at info@leica-store-dc.com.
• Adorama asks: should the term “street photography” be retired? The master Garry Winogrand preferred to be called a zoo photographer himself.
• Outliers and American Vanguard Art exhibition opens Sunday at the National Gallery of Art. Zoe Leonard’s “The Fae Richards Photo Archive” will be on view as part of the exhibit, and Zoe Leonard will have a talk at 2:00 p.m. in the East Building Auditorium.
• Ever thought of the digital photography industry as having an ecosystem? Photolemur did and created a comprehensive map of it in PDF form.
• The Outdoor Photographer of the Year category winners have been announced.
• Don’t forget about the free-to-attend photography exhibit, reception, and conversation on the impact of photojournalism and creative storytelling on policy at Johns Hopkins SAIS on Feb. 1, 4:30 to 8 p.m.
• Join us next week Friday, Feb. 2 for the opening of a new exhibit at the Crystal City Fotowalk!

In case you missed it, we decided to extend our contest all the way to February 28. That gives you plenty of time to send us your best images of life in the D.C. region and increase your chances of being part of our annual show at Dupont Underground in May.

We have a lot of great events in the meantime! Join us for our January happy hour this Tuesday at Board Room. Then on Friday, February 2, we’re opening a new exhibit at the Crystal City Fotowalk! You can see the exhibit up now anytime, but we hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine and meet the talented photographers we’re featuring in this round.

On to Friday Links!

• “The Wonder People” exhibit opens today at the Glen Echo Photoworks Gallery and runs through Feb. 25 with a reception and gallery talk this Sunday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The exhibit features Dorte Verner’s portraits of refugees from around the world.
• Register to attend a photography exhibit, reception, and conversation on the impact of photojournalism and creative storytelling on policy at Johns Hopkins SAIS on Feb. 1. Free to attend.
• Head to the opening of “You, if no one else,” the Arlington Arts Center’s winter group exhibition, including photography by Danielle A. Scruggs among other artworks. Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m.
• National Geographic photographer illustrates glacial retreat by making long exposures while carrying a torch along the glacier’s former boundaries.
• After the New York Times revealed the extent of sexual harassment by fashion photographers Bruce Weber and Mario Testino, publisher Condé Nast cut ties with them and created a code of conduct to protect its models during shoots.
• A former Department of Energy photographer has filed a federal whistleblower suit stating that he was fired after leaking photos of Rick Perry meeting with the CEO of Murray Energy.
• This one is for all you Star Wars geeks.
• The New Yorker profiles photographer/filmmaker Khalik Allah and his images of Harlem at night that “have a spiritual essence, an element of passion and grace.”
• Christopher Payne’s photo essay on one of America’s last remaining pencil factories may cause unexpected feelings of nostalgia.

Have you entered our annual photo contest yet? You have until January 11 to submit your images that show the life and culture of Washington, D.C. and the metro area. We’ll be announcing more exciting details about this year’s show soon—make sure you’re a part of it! And now on to Friday Links:

• Capital Weather Gang shared their 5 favorite weather photos from last year.
• Scroll back to all those garden beauty shots you took last spring and enter them into Washington Gardener Magazine’s 12th annual photo contest before January 22.
• Sign your high schooler up for Photography for Teens at The Art League, an eight-session class starting January 21.
• Aerial photographer Mark Holtzman talked to the Atlantic about how he took this photo of a B-2 stealth bomber over the Rose Bowl.
• Pacific Standard features Anthony Carbajal, a 28-year-old with ALS who decided to use his photography skills to find hope.
• Go see the finalists of the Air & Space / Smithsonian photo contest and vote for your favorite to get a Readers’ Choice prize before January 14.
• Photography exhibition documents the immigrant experience from the 1860s through 2015. On view at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York until Jan. 27.
• Senior writer for Adorama Learning Center shares five digital photography technology predictions for 2018.
• From 1893 to 1897, Carl Størmer used a hidden camera to photograph life in Oslo, Norway while attending university.