Join us for our November happy hour at Free State next Thursday, 6 p.m. Photographers and friends all welcome, and perhaps you’ll be able to tell us about some good exhibits you’ve seen recently because…

• FotoweekDC kicks off tonight! Head to the opening party and see the contest winners at FotoWeek Central, then search their calendar by location or daily events for more exhibits, discussions, workshops, photo walks, and parties than you could possibly cram into just one week.
• Go support two local photographers, Jessica Del Vecchio and Chris Williams, with their annual Art for Turkeys fundraiser: You’ll get six small photography prints for a donation of $32 or more to Bread for the City to provide holiday dinners.
• “Dereliction” by photographer Cedric Williams opens at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown on November 11 with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m.
• The New York Times is in D.C. next week to hold a discussion with some of their Pulitzer-winning photojournalists at the Dupont Underground. Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m. $15-20.
• Enter the international Wiki Science photography competition by the end of November. The U.S. part of the contest is being organized by Wikimedia District of Columbia.
• Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards aim to raise awareness about wildlife conservation efforts if you can stop laughing long enough first.
• Conservation photographers, filmmakers, scientists, and more will be meeting in D.C. on Nov. 14 and 15 at WildSpeak, a symposium to explore how visual media can contribute to impactful science communications and conservation efforts.
• “The vultures were so charming,” says photographer Traer Scott, who visited owls, kestrels, and other birds in rehabilitation centers for her new book, Raptors: Portraits of Birds of Prey.
• This probably isn’t news to our readers, but Pete Souza’s latest book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, with an introduction by the President himself, was released this week. You’ll have to cruise Craigslist for tickets to Souza’s sold out talk at Sixth & I next Monday.

 

Many of you know that Exposed DC used to be called DCist Exposed. Heather Goss and Kyle Gustafson created our annual show 12 years ago because the photography contributors to DCist were too talented not to be featured on gallery walls. So we are heartbroken to hear that in the wake of parent site Gothamists’ writers asserting their right to unionize, the publication’s owner responded by suddenly shutting the sites down late yesterday afternoon. Exposed DC is grateful to DCist and its tireless staff for giving us the chance to create something that continued to grow. We hope that all of you find new and ongoing opportunities to support local news, to hire and read local writers, and to support local arts.

• “For the Record: Picturing D.C.” is the annual photography and fine art exhibit showcasing each of the city’s wards by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Head to the opening reception at the GWU Museum and The Textile Museum next Wednesday, Nov. 8, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
• Learn some tips for getting a job in photography today at this lecture by APA|DC on November 7, 7:30 p.m., $15.
• Get tickets now for Forward Focus, the latest exhibit from the talented D.C. youth at Critical Exposure. November 16, 6 p.m. $50.
• The annual FotoWeekDC festival starts in one week! Go over their event schedule now, featuring exhibits all around the city and their headquarters in Georgetown.
• The pyramids, the Capitol Dome under construction, a young Abraham Lincoln: The Atlantic has an incredible gallery from around the world in 1857, the year the magazine was founded.
• The 2nd annual DC Art Book Fair is at the National Museum for Women in the Arts this Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. Admission to the museum is free that day, and over 40 groups will be selling their books, prints, and other artworks.
• Enjoy this gallery of fake urban landscapes from photographer Gregor Sailer’s new book, The Potemkin Village, in WIRED.
• Photographer Robert Llewellyn explores the hidden world of seeds.
• Aperture celebrates its 65th anniversary this year. The New York Times Lens Blog discusses the origin of the foundation, photography today, and more with the foundation’s executive director.
• A photographer shares his experience with drone photography and some tips for those considering getting into it.

• The Washington Post Magazine has a photo essay exploring the four quadrants of D.C. and changes taking place across the city.
• Head to Glen Echo Park for the 2017 Photoslam Exhibit, featuring among others two Exposed alums: Tom Mullins and Denzil Spicer. A reception and gallery talk is this Saturday, 5 to 7 p.m.
• Submit your work to IGDC’s first community exhibit, featuring “the best sides of the DMV,” by October 30.
• Errol Morris reviews a new photobook by Peter Manseau that looks back at the “beginnings of photography and its deceptions” in The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost.
• Photobucket shocked its users last week by holding their photos hostage until they paid hundreds of dollars for a new hosting fee.
• Terry Richardson, the Harvey Weinstein of the photography business, is out.
• The FAA is recommending cameras (and any electronics bigger than a smartphone) be banned from checked luggage on airplanes due to lithium-ion battery fires.
• Lensrentals released data about what equipment photographers have been renting in 2017.
• Hisakata Hiroyuki’s action shots make these cats look like they practice martial arts.

• Remember how great the WWII warbirds flyover of the Mall was a couple years ago? Enjoy a mini-version TODAY  (click on Potomac Flight) when a formation of T-6 Texans and a B-25 bomber will take off from Culpeper about 11:30 a.m. and fly along the Potomac River above the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery.
• Head to the DC Skate/Photo Jam at the bowl behind Union Market this Saturday. DJ Baby Alcatraz jams during the skate session, 3 to 6 p.m., with a photo slideshow sponsored by Burn and Thrasher magazines at 7 p.m.
• A 27,256 square-foot property (yeah, you read that right) has been transformed by 23 designers as part of D.C. Design House, the ultimate in home design inspiration and, more likely, straight-up envy. You can see it for yourself through Oct. 29 for $35. Proceeds go to Children’s National.
• D.C.’s latest concert venue, Anthem, was christened this week by the Foo Fighters. Washingtonian wondered whether any photographers would be able to cover it given the band’s strict contract terms.
• Lee Friedlander’s book “The American Monument” takes a look at how monuments hide in plain site and is being reissued with some coincidental timing.
• The hold of cable news on Americans is disturbing, as photographer Michael Amato shows in his series “Fear Culture, USA.”
• For those who use Lightroom and want to edit in fullscreen mode, there’s an app that turns your phone into an external control panel.
• The Monarchs are migrating! Click the dots for sightings and upload your own images as they head south.
• California is burning.
• Storytellers wanted: Get a grant from National Geographic, or this residency with the New York Times.
• Wild, a new exhibit at National Geographic, opens today with glorious animal photography by Michael Nichols. $15.