Tickets are now on sale for our huge opening reception on March 9 for the 11th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. We’re holding the exhibition at AJAX, a new venue in the Mt. Vernon Square neighborhood. Your $20 (in advance, no fees!) ticket gets you in to see 43 photos wonderfully printed and framed by Framebridge that celebrate the Washington, D.C. area along with all the original Bluejacket brews you can drink.

• The deadline is tonight for the FotoDC and #202Creates photo contest. Submit portraits of your favorite local artists, entrepreneurs, educators, and anyone else who makes this city thrive. Entering is free but you need to get them in by midnight, and there are cash prizes to be won.
• Photographers Sally Canzoneri and Danny Schweers welcome visitors to their exhibit at the Washington Printmakers Gallery this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17 and 18, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Danny will offer free tutoring on Saturday.
• Peter Stern is a photographer, ultralight pilot, and exhibit producer at the National Air and Space Museum. His show of painterly aerial images closes this weekend at the Atheneaum; head down Sunday at 3 p.m. for an artist talk. You can also see some of his work posted this past week on Air & Space Magazine’s Instagram account.
• There’s a heated debate going on over whether the photograph by Burhan Özbilici taken during the assassination of Turkey’s ambassador last December should have been awarded the 2017 World Press Photo of the Year. “Photography is capable of real service to humanity, promoting empathy and initiating change. This image achieves neither,” says juror Stuart Franklin in a Guardian op-ed, which features some of the other winners from the year.
• You can enter PDN magazine’s annual photography contest through February 24.
• Animals That Saw Me 2 is a photobook full of dry comic humor about Ed Panar’s “surprise encounters with animals.” Friend-of-Exposed Pat Padua gives it 4 out of 5 stars.
• A Dominican newspaper mistakenly ran a photo of Alec Baldwin instead of Donald Trump.
• Reuters photographer Christinna Muschi documented migrants crossing the border as they fled the U.S., through snow and ice, seeking refugee status in Canada.
• A dancing octopus, larval lionfish, and the “Imp of darkness” all went home winners in the Underwater Photographer of the Year contest.

Keep an eye out for the imminent announcement of the venue for this year’s show, along with all the details of the March 9 opening reception! We’re excited to be partnering with local business FRAMEBRIDGE for all the printing and framing of this year’s winning photos.

Oh right, those links:

• Pete Souza is using his Obama archive to troll Trump.
• FotoDC and #202Creates wants you to nominate your favorite photographers for The Inaugural Creative Class of 2017.
• “Spineless,” an exhibition of Susan Middleton’s remarkable photos of marine invertebrates opens Wednesday, February 15 at the National Academy of Sciences. The exhibition is the result of seven years of fieldwork across the Pacific Ocean.
• Head to the Black Rock Center for the Arts this Saturday, 2 to 4 p.m., for the opening of two photography exhibits: Joshua Dunn’s “Perishable,” documenting architectural monuments, and Thomas Germer’s spherical panoramas in “Forward, Backward, Up, Down.”
• Photojournalist Daniella Zalcman is leading the fight against sexism in professional photography by launching a website featuring 400 female photographers.
• Air & Space Magazine has the story and images from a photojournalist who stumbled across lost World War I photos in a Moroccan flea market.
• Get tickets to one of several events at the Washington National Cathedral between February 13-17 for “Seeing Deeper,” when they’ll clear the nave of chairs. Most of the events are planned with photographers in mind, but there’s also two “Special Photographer Access” sessions, one at night with the nave illuminated ($40) and two in the early morning ($25).
• Family portrait for 500? No problem.
• Stunning photos and video of a lava “firehose” flowing into the ocean from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.
• Artomatic is hosting a site preview of their spring 2017 Crystal City venue tomorrow, February 11, from 12-1 p.m. Meet in the lobby of 1800 South Bell St. While you’re there, check out our exhibit of 12 local photographers in the Crystal City Underground Fotowalk.
• InterAction, an NGO based in D.C., has kicked off its 15th annual photo contest. They want to see “powerful photos that illustrate innovative, effective, and inspiring efforts in humanitarian assistance and international relief and development.” The deadline is March 31.
• Headline of the week: “This is how you photograph a million dead plants without losing your mind.”

Are you ready to go out and photograph all the things around this weekend’s Presidential Inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington so you can submit your best shots to our 11th annual contest by the January 25 extended deadline?? Ok, just checking.

• And if you are attending any of those events, please be prepared, stay safe, and know your rights. You have lots of them, but it’s our job to remind you that you have rights as a photographer. Read this before you go out to shoot, and print out this handy card to take with you.
• Speaking of which, D.C.’s favorite Congressman to hate, Texas’ Louie Gohmert, decided to block a photographer trying to photograph protesters during confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions.
• FotoDC this week launched the #NotASwamp project and contest, running through inauguration weekend. Winning images will appear on its website and in a special showcase and panel during the FotoWeekDC festival this fall.
• And don’t forget this group of local photographers who are soliciting your inauguration photos for a photobook, “UnPresidented: The Inauguration of Donald J. Trump and the People’s Response.” A Kickstarter campaign met its goal in just four days, but you can still contribute to get a copy. Their open call for submissions starts on January 22.
• It’s hard to think beyond this weekend for photo ops, but you’d be well advised to plan ahead for the upcoming Kusama exhibit at the Hirshhorn.
• Next Wednesday, you can find the entire Exposed team at the Corcoran’s thesis preview of the work by its New Media and Photojournalism students, including our very own Caroline Space. Come join us to support these young talents.
• See Miki Jourdan’s “Making America: Portraits from the nation’s capital” at Sidamo Coffee on H Street NE. He “rebuts Trump’s insults by documenting the proud, often joyful, character of our town.”
• Next Friday, January 27, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Leica Store DC, attend an opening reception for “Rolling Through The Shadows,” an exhibition of photos created by some of skateboarding’s biggest influences.
• A CBS News video report on the legacy being left behind by outgoing Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza.
• Harvard is putting their photography classes online for free.
• For more than a decade, photographer Mark Neville has been going into communities from Scotland to Pittsburgh, Helmand and beyond, capturing humanity with a clarity of purpose defined by social responsibility.
• When Joel Sternfeld had the chance to crisscross America with a camera, he got in his camper and never stopped. The 72-year-old photographer talks about his beguilingly sinister take on Americana.
• The George Eastman Museum, among the oldest archives of photography in the world, recently launched an online platform that allows you to search through over 250,000 objects from its collections.

If you haven’t heard already, our contest deadline has been extended! We realized just in time that we’d love to include images from the Presidential Inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington next weekend, so you now have until midnight, January 25 to enter. And if you’ve already entered, don’t fret! You can exchange photos in the sets you’ve submitted, or even increase your chances of winning by entering a whole new set. Just finalize everything by January 25! Our monthly happy hour / winners’ celebration has been moved to January 31.

• Joe Newman and Shamila Chaudhary are putting together a group of Washington, D.C. street photographers to document the day before, day of, and day after the presidential inauguration for a photobook “UnPresidented: The Inauguration of Donald J. Trump and the People’s Response.” A Kickstarter campaign met its goal in just four days, but you can still contribute to get a copy. More than two dozen photographers are on board, and an open call for submissions starts on January 22.
• An old camera store is reborn with a new name in a new space. Embassy Camera has moved from Dupont Circle to downtown, and is now called District Camera.
• This week the Cross MacKenzie Gallery in Georgetown opened “First Ladies” by Michele Mattei, featuring an exhibition of portraits of “eminent ladies who tore down barriers and brooked no obstacles in their paths to the top of their respective fields.”
• Here’s a wedding we wish we’d gotten an invite to. Last weekend, President Obama served as a groomsman in one of his aide’s weddings, while Secretary of State John Kerry officiated, and the local news station has all the photos.
• Got $149? Try out the new Lomo’Instant Automat, which should be a nice toy to get you through the winter.
• FStoppers asks, “Is photography overrun by white males?” and handily answers “ah yup.”
• Edward Burtynsky, the powerhouse environmental photographer, shows how Earth’s landscape is irrevocably changing in his new book, Essential Elements.
• The website Tiny Iceland has a guide for photographing the northern lights.
• Here’s a reflection on how street photography changes as cities themselves change.
• A long exposure video at Yellowstone shows how light pollution is changing even the darkest skies.
• Four-month old Elsa, a tiger cub born in a traveling circus and rejected by her mother, is being cared for by a couple at their home in Germany.

Finally, all of us at Exposed DC are terribly saddened about the death on Thursday of Faith Flanagan. Faith was a friend and a forceful supporter of the D.C. arts community. She will be sorely missed.