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.

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.