• Volunteer/activism opportunity: New York-based photographer Joe Quint will be in D.C. this Sunday and Monday for his project It Takes Us, which documents the impact of gun violence on survivors, family members, and witnesses. You would help with setup and breakdown, but it’s an awesome opportunity to learn from a pro while helping a worthy cause. No professional experience required, and Joe will feed and water you. Email him at joe@ittakes.us
• Photo opportunity: check out the XYZT Abstract Landscapes installation which opened yesterday at new art space ARTECHOUSE.
• Grant alert: apply for one of the The Lucie Foundation’s three cash grants supporting the work of emerging photographers – one $2,500 scholarship with an open theme, and two $1000 scholarships for photographers working in the fields of Fine Art or Documentary/Photojournalism.
• Warning: according to Popville, the D.C. foot fetishist photographer is back.
• This Monday the front page displays outside the Newseum and their online equivalents will go dark to bring attention to the dangers faced by journalists worldwide.
• “It’s Snowing on Jupiter”: Juno sent back stunning photos of the giant planet’s swirling cloud formations.
• Beauty Amid the Chaos: photographers from Damascus to Aleppo show a different side to their war-torn cities through Instagram.
• A team of researchers at MIT has discovered how to create color images using engineered E. coli bacteria.
• This urban wildlife photographer gets to know his subjects, and it makes for beautiful results.

• Critical Exposure’s annual youth photo exhibit is next Thursday, June 1. The event is free, but donations online and at the door support their work teaching D.C. students to use photography for social advocacy.
• A great offer for beginning photographers looking for more control over their images: Sign up for the workshop DSLR and Mirrorless Camera Basics:  Learn to use that fancy camera, taught by Exposed alum Amanda Archibald, at the Lemon Collective in Park View, Sunday, June 11, 10am-12pm. $50.
• It’s your last chance to see the delightful exhibit from Small Steps Are Giant Leaps, featuring photographs of little Astronaut Harrison by his father, Aaron Sheldon, that celebrate the exploration you can take on every day. Head to Blind Whino on Saturday, May 27, 12 to 5 p.m. for a closing reception cookout with—naturally—a moon bounce.
• You can now pre-order a signed copy of the upcoming photobook by D.C. artist Mark Parascandola, Once Upon a Time in Almería: The Legacy of Hollywood in Spain.
• A selection of Magnum photographer David Hurn’s legendary collection of traded images, curated by Martin Parr, opened last week as part of the Photo London event. Huck magazine takes the opportunity to get the photographer’s words of advice for the next generation.
• U.S. Air Force combat photographers who served in Vietnam tell how they created a visual record of the war in the latest issue of Air & Space magazine.
• “The photos we’ve primarily seen from this White House convey a sense of distraction and amateurism.”
• Pete Souza, we miss you, but we’ll sate ourselves with your photographs of fake president Frank Underwood chilling around D.C. this week.
• The winners of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are just what we need in these troubled times.
• Take a minute to enjoy these fabulous images of dogs standing on glass photographed from below.

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.