Join us on Monday, May 22 at 6 p.m. for our monthly happy hour at Jack Rose on the second level terrace. This is our first happy hour since winter, so we hope to see all your shining faces. Photographers and friends all welcome.

• We’re incredibly proud of our former Exposed team member Sanjay Suchak, who now works as UVA’s official photographer and whose images are now wallpapering the Charlottesville airport (and soon to come to even closer airports). He also came to Deanwood recently to meet and photograph DCPS Principal Ben Williams. “I think he’s one of the brightest spots in the DCPS,” Sanjay told us, and about the story: “It’s a tearjerker.”
• The City of Alexandria has put out a call for artists to submit proposals for a public art project in the Duke Street Tunnel.  Deadline is June 4.
• Mammatus clouds are “pouch-like, bulbous clouds that hang menacingly from a layer of mid-level clouds,” according to the Capital Weather Gang, and we got a stunning view of them around the metro area last night.
• Listen to fine art photographer Mitch Epstein talk about contemporary landscape photography and his ongoing exhibit at the National Gallery of Art this Sunday at 12 p.m.
• Reminiscent of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Theater series, photographer Jason Shulman uses ultra-long exposures to condense the entirety of films into a single image.
• The annual APA Awards contest is open and open to all photographers, though members save money on entry fees. Deadline is July 12.
• Today is Endangered Species Day! The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute celebrates with a slew of new births of endangered and vulnerable species.
• Don’t forget to RSVP for Critical Exposure’s annual youth photo exhibit on June 1. The event is free, but donations online and at the door are welcome and support their work teaching D.C. students to use photography for social advocacy.
• It’s better to give than to receive, so we hear. The D.C. Commission on Arts and the Humanities is looking for panelists to review grant proposals for next year.
• Gratuitous rescued-ducklings-in-a-box photo, courtesy of the 14th Librarian of Congress.

 

Deer photographers, please mark your calendars for the evening of Monday, May 22. Our May happy hour takes place on the roof terrace at Jack Rose in Adams Morgan, rain or shine!

• Attend a lecture with esteemed photographer John Gossage at Glen Echo Photoworks this Saturday at 4 p.m. He’ll discuss his storied career, his latest photobook, and his upcoming exhibition on Diane Arbus. $15.
• Exposed alum Amanda Archibald is teaching a series of workshops at the Petworth Library. Next Saturday, May 20, go on a photo walk/scavenger hunt in Petworth — Connecting Photos to Stories will guide you in telling your own story, or someone else’s, through creative photography practices (free.) On Sunday, June 11, learn about the ideal digital camera settings for the type of photographs you want to take — DSLR and Mirrorless Camera Basics: Learn to use that fancy camera ($50.)
• Early bird pricing for the FotoDC:STYLE Spring Photo Competition ends at midnight tonight!
• All the photos released from President Trump’s meeting with Russian officials at the White House on Wednesday morning were from Russian state media — no U.S. press were allowed into the meeting. The presence of a Russian photographer in the Oval Office was criticized by former U.S. intelligence officials as a potential security breach. The following day a White House official admitted they had been “tricked” by the Russian government.
• The 2017 RFK Human Rights awards for photography were announced Wednesday. Laurie Skrivan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch won for her story of families living with poverty and gun violence in St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri. Daniella Zalcman was honored for her work on the legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada designed to forcibly assimilate indigenous children into Western culture, which was featured in last year’s FotoWeek DC exhibition. The awards will be presented May 23 at the Newseum.
• This photographer traveled to 23 countries to take stunning portraits of WWII veterans in their homes.
• In 1945 Toni Frissell became the first professional photographer allowed access to the “Tuskegee Airmen” when she visited their base in Ramitelli, Italy.
• The New Yorker muses about the politics of portraiture in both paintings and photographs.
• Sometimes you have to let the subject come to you: A photographer left his camera in a bucket of water and recorded the desert animals that came to drink (video).
• Cop herds lost goats into his police car, finds owners using cute pics.

Save the date for our next happy hour, Monday, May 22, location TBA!

• The closing party for the Community Collective Photography Showcase takes place this Saturday, May 6, from 7 to 11 p.m. at Capital Fringe.
• Enter FotoDC latest’s photo contest with the theme of Style, in collaboration with City Center DC, by May 30.
• The deadline for the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.’s “For the Record” photo contest, featuring certain neighborhoods throughout the city, is May 15.
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture is hiring a photo conservator.
• At Leica Store DC, go to a photo critique circle this Sunday, an artist talk with Bill Putnam (currently exhibiting in their gallery) on May 21, and join them for a movie night on May 25.
• TPM took photos of the GOP celebrating the House’s passage of the bill that could destroy health care for millions and annotated them with the number of people in each Representative’s district that will lose coverage if it becomes law.
• Teenagers are documenting their changing neighborhoods in New York City.
• Speaking of talented teenage documentarians, support the ones in D.C. and RSVP now for Critical Exposure’s exhibit “Can’t Corrupt This Image,” opening June 1.
• A Google software engineer has been working on an app to allow manual adjustment of exposure time, ISO, and focus distance on a smartphone.
  
• A photo of a Girl Scout standing up to a neo-Nazi demonstrator in the Czech city of Brno went viral.
• A baby ring-tailed lemur called Heather, who was abandoned by her mother, is safe and well-fed at a German zoo.

• Tonight, head to the launch party for the photo book UnPresidented: The Inauguration of Donald J. Trump and the People’s Response, featuring images from D.C.’s most talented street photographers. Congrats to Shamila Chadhaury and Joe Newman for putting this work together. Join the party and get the book (or buy it on Amazon) at the Gallery O on H at 7 p.m.
• Barack Obama offers advice on selfie-taking to an audience at the University of Chicago.
• In one of the first attempts to photograph a solar eclipse, this astronomer invented a camera and lugged “a complete photographic darkroom laboratory” to the field, including, among other necessities, “an undisclosed quantity of wine.”
• Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is “stunned” after Instagram bans photos promoting a new exhibit of work by Imogen Cunningham, who was well known for her nude photography during her 70-year-long career; Cunningham died in 1976.
• Spineless: Portraits of Invertebrates features photos by Susan Middleton from across the Pacific Ocean. You can even watch a little preview video to see how she made these.
• This photographer visited 20 countries to document the pollination process. (We’re not sure if she titled the series These Photos Might Make You Sneeze.)
• “We wear masks for many reasons: for fun, for protection, or to make a statement.” The Atlantic comes up with a reasonable excuse for a cool gallery.
• The pictures of this iceberg sidling up to Newfoundland are pretty incredible.
• Instagram’s rapid changes have caused it to reach “escape velocity“–whatever that means–says the New York Times.
• Capital Weather Gang wins this week’s headline writing award: “This is not aliens. It’s an aurora named Steve. (Seriously.)”
• Quite a diverse showing from George Washington University’s new show, an exhibition featuring photos by Andy Warhol, Sally Gall, Philippe Halsman, along with seen D.C. photographers. Also see photos from graduating Corcoran student Matailong Du, who documented the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company as they performed at the National Portrait Gallery last year. Opening on May 2.
• One of the baby bald eagles at the National Arboretum needed rescuing after falling out of its nest and getting tangled in a tree branch. The catchily named “DC4” is the embodiment of gawkiness.

 

• Get tickets now for the D.C. premiere of Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographer (and occasional Exposed judge) Lucian Perkins film “The Messengers,” this Sunday at E Street Cinema.
• Actors from Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale created some powerful images walking around the Capitol ahead of a premiere at the National Museum of Natural History.
• Long read: an analysis of Melania Trump’s psyche based on three years of her Twitter photographs.
• On Wednesday, the “Mother of all Marches” took to Venezuela’s streets. Though the country is awash in chaos, this photographer is in the midst of it all.
• Belgian photographer Frederik Buyckx has won the 2017 Sony World Photography Award, and also took first place in the Landscape category.
• “Strong women in front of the camera inspire the filmmaker behind it.”
• Instagram now lets you save groups of photos as collections.
• At this biennial photography festival in England, images show the environment and how it’s changing in the Anthropocene era.
• In gruesome crimes, the use of color photography at the scene more often leads to guilty verdicts.
• National Geographic is having a flash sale of signed prints of some incredible nature photography to celebrate Earth Day.
• Especially at this time of year, we realize how much we miss this guy.