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.

This week we announced that Noe Todorovich is taking over as the new Executive Director of Exposed DC, so we hope to see you at our monthly happy hour to celebrate and start gearing up for another great year of local photography. We’ll see you at Right Proper Brewing, Tuesday, August 29 at 6 p.m. On to Friday Links!

• It’s been a difficult week for everyone in Charlottesville, and many of us could only watch it all go down through the eyes of photographers on the scene. The Women Photographers of Washington asked Evelyn Hockstein to take over its Instagram account for the week to document the events. Sanjay Suchak, the University of Virginia’s photographer, posted his work here and here, and the school published his inspiring images of people from the community taking back the lawn with a peaceful vigil Wednesday night.
• If you don’t know there’s a total solar eclipse crossing the U.S. on Monday, you probably aren’t on the planet. NASA has a guide for smartphone photography and Space.com goes through the history of eclipse photography.
• Once you have that perfect eclipse photo, enter it into Focus on the Story’s photo contest. Winners get cash and published in the group’s second photography book, and Exposed DC’s own Heather Goss is on the jury panel. Deadline is September 4.
• This is what happens when you take a 104-year-old Graflex and take it to a Formula 1 race.
• fovi8 is a new magazine made by photographers, for photographers. Submit your photos by August 31 for consideration in their inaugural issue.
• Enjoy this photographic trip through Denali in Alaska by Kris Cheng.
• In Agence France-Presse, photographer Timothy A. Clary explains in words and pictures his passion for documenting dancers.
• A top-secret U.S. Army base in the Utah desert gets a visit from Getty photographer George Frey for the Atlantic.
• Louisiana State University takes its mascot situation seriously, apparently, housing an entire tiger habitat for Mike(s). The latest tiger, 11-month-old Mike VII, arrived on campus this week, where handlers will see if he adjusts well.

• This evening from 6 to 7:30 p.m., join the D.C. chapter of Moms Demand Action at The Potter’s House in Adams Morgan for the opening of an exhibit by Joe Quint. Joe uses photography to raise awareness about the effects of gun violence. (Perhaps you answered his solicitation for assistants that we posted a few weeks ago for this project.)
• 11:59pm tonight is the deadline for WATCH ME, a Juried Youth Photography Exhibition at Photoworks Gallery at Glen Echo Park. Photographers must be 18 or younger.
• Tomorrow, head to Leica Store DC at 11 a.m. for a photo walk led by Holly Garner (IGDC founder and Exposed alum) and Kyle Myles (who was featured in our 12 Photographers exhibit at Crystal City last winter). You could even win an ONA camera bag.
• With 170,000+ followers on Instagram, so popular he’s kept on retainer by several restaurants, this 22-year-old has become D.C.’s most influential food photographer.
• Remember the monkey selfie controversy? That case was heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday; Motherboard explains the battle for the copyright.
• And remember the viral photo of a Canadian dad calmly mowing his lawn while a tornado rages behind him? Now he’s locally famous.
• It’s a little hard to visit, but there’s now a permanent photo exhibition in low Earth orbit.
• This photo gallery from a warehouse in Colorado shows a “mausoleum for endangered species.”
• TSA photo ruffles Instagram users’ feathers. Also, not sure how we missed the prequel.

• Save the date: July 11th, 6 p.m. for our next Exposed DC Happy Hour, at a location yet to be determined. Stay tuned!
• We’ve added 19 new photos to our “Art in the Everyday” show in the Crystal City Underground Fotowalk. The exhibit now features a grand total of 148 images by 88 local photographers!
• Photoworks Gallery at Glen Echo Park announced a Call for Entries for their 2017 Juried Youth Photography Exhibition. The contest is open to photographers aged 18 and under, and the deadline is July 14, 11:59 p.m.
• When the White House once again barred cameras from a recent press briefing, CNN sent their Supreme Court sketch artist instead.
• Born in 1799, Victorian botanist Anna Atkins brought nature to life with her striking, modern-looking cyanotypes of seaweed and algae.
• Winners of the 10th annual iPhone Photography Awards were announced this week.
• “Eugene Richards Is the Photographer America Needs Now“—Mother Jones looks at a new retrospective of the work of the great American photojournalist.
• People whose pets appear in advertising campaigns or other media don’t tend to make a lot of money, but they do get bragging rights.
• And finally the Call for Entries you’ve all been waiting for—the third annual Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Deadline September 30.