• 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.

 

• Get local history digitized by contributing some dough to this crowdfunding effort by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. to buy new servers and develop better user accessibility to its vast collection of photographs.
• Don’t miss the early bird deadline of April 15 (and save $15 in the process!) when you submit your photographs to the Historical Society’s For the Record juried exhibition and fundraiser. If that’s too soon, the final entry deadline is May 15.
• Long read: “America’s black metropolises were documented by visionary black photographers who forged successful businesses and important roles as local community historians.” Addison Scurlock and his sons photographed black Washington for much of the 20th century.
• Images from the Library of Congress show that the tradition of photographing the cherry blossoms is as old as the trees themselves.
• Women Photograph has launched its inaugural round of grants to support documentary projects. Apply by May 20.
• Two photographers were announced as 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners this week. In the Breaking News Photography category, Daniel Berehulak (freelance) won for his images of the government’s callous assault on drug dealers and users in the Philippines. In Feature Photography, the award went to E. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune for his portrayal of a 10-year-old survivor of a Chicago shooting.
• In her new exhibit “EUSA,” Toronto photographer Naomi Harris documents America-themed places in Europe and Europe-themed places in America.
• PDN features a gallery of work from “Delhi: Communities of Belonging” from photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh that show the lives of LGBTQ residents.
• California’s drought is over (for now, at least) and the countryside is blooming so brightly you can see it from space. The L.A. Times has a great gallery of those wildflowers in all their glory.
• Need some adorable? Here’s a red panda getting freaked out by a stationary rock.

Tonight, join us in Crystal City for a reception to celebrate our new exhibit with 120 photographs lining the underground Fotowalk (map at link). They’re huge and beautiful and feature the work of 78 local photographers. Meet us at the Gallery Underground (at the opposite end of the Fotowalk from the Metro) from 6-8 p.m. for an open bar and quality time with talented artists. This event is part of First Fridays in Crystal City, so wander around the underground for additional openings, wine tastings, crafts, and more.

• If you wondered why In Frame has been on hiatus, it’s because our curator Caroline Space has been working hard on her latest photography project, Forest of Lorien (see a video preview here), which she’ll be presenting as her masters thesis at the Corcoran School of Art and Design next Wednesday, April 12, 6 to 9 p.m., along with several other undergrad and graduate students. The event is open to the public but you must RSVP. Here at Exposed DC we want to give our hearty congratulations to our exceptionally talented team member!
• The second installment of the Community Collective Photography Showcase opens at Capital Fringe this Saturday, 7 to 10 p.m., featuring local photography juried by members of D.C. photo groups, including Exposed’s own James Calder.
• “Mirror to the World” opens at Glen Echo Photoworks today, juried by Frank Von Riper and featuring 11 local photographers, including the Washington City Paper’s Darrow Montgomery and Exposed alum Cristine Pearl.
• At Artists Proof, a gallery in Georgetown, see the new exhibit “Home of Art,” featuring work by Spanish photographer Pedro Correa.
• The School of Visual Arts has made 99 photography lectures available for free on YouTube.
• You can now pay your respects to astronaut and Senator John Glenn, who was interred at Arlington Cemetery yesterday.
• PDN features the work of Tom M Johnson, who was on assignment to photograph parking lots and came away this clever series, “Booths.”
• A flock of Chilean flamingos fly over the Andes in this stunner from wildlife photographer Ben Hall.
• The Atlantic marks the 100 year anniversary of the United States entering World War I with this photo gallery.
• So much squee this week: The National Zoo went into cute overload with a dozen cheetah cubs born to two litters at its Front Royal habitat, and the Memphis Zoo welcomed a brand new slimy cat, er, baby hippo to its stable (scroll to the bottom for a gallery).

 

Be sure to visit our newest exhibit in Crystal City — stroll through Fotowalk Underground and take in the work of 78 local photographers who find “Art in the Everyday” by making abstract and graphically-arresting images that cause us to take a second look at our surroundings. And mark your calendars for an artists reception April 7, 6pm-8pm.

• Got plans Saturday? No, we mean all day Saturday. The 24HourProject “gathers street and documentary photographers from around the globe to share in real time as they document the human condition of their city.” Starting at midnight (Friday night/Saturday morning) take and post a picture every hour on the hour for 24 hours. Check this very informative post by Nana Gyesie, the project’s ambassador for Washington D.C.
• IGDC took over the NGA’s Instagram account last Friday. Don’t worry, they gave it back a few days later.
• Popville has posted images of a new photo lab coming soon to a long-vacant building on H Street NE next to the Atlas Theatre. The website listed in the window suggests this will be a new location of Woodbridge, Virginia based Photo-60.
• Local 19-year old Myles Loftin’s joyful photo series “HOODED” challenges media stereotypes about black male teens.
• The Smithsonian has announced the winners of its 14th annual photo contest, selecting nine entries from more than 48,000 submissions by photographers in 146 countries and territories. (And we thought judging our contest was tough!)
• High rainfall over the winter spawned a wildflower “super bloom” in California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the most prolific since at least 1999 according to park officials.
• The Sony World Photography Awards has announced the winners of its Open categories and National categories for 2017. The Atlantic has posted an extensive gallery of winners and runners-up.
• “Catherine Leroy was widely considered the most daring photographer in Vietnam. She almost certainly spent the most time in combat — in part because she had no money, having traveled from her native France to Vietnam as a freelancer in 1966 with no contracts and a short list of published work. Living with soldiers meant that she could eat rations and sleep in the countryside.”
• Birdwatchers in Western Australia are “elated” after snapping a photo of a night parrot for the first time in a century.
• Meanwhile in northern Queensland, possible sightings of a Tasmanian tiger have prompted scientists to undertake a search for the species thought to have died out more than 80 years ago.