Roll up, roll up! Sign up now for one of our free photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC. While Sarah Hodzic’s terrific Holga photography class is full, there’s still space to learn how to photograph airplanes at Gravelly Point with Chris Williams this Saturday, and registration opened this morning for our street photography class with Mukul Ranjan next weekend!

Meanwhile, next Wednesday is kind of a big deal. December 7 marks the launch of our 11th annual photography contest! So please join us from 6 to 8 p.m., upstairs at 801 Restaurant & Bar for a special happy hour to celebrate!! Check back around lunchtime on the 7th for the rules and how to submit.

Now back to your regularly scheduled linkage:

• William Christenberry, the former Corcoran painting teacher best known for his photographs of buildings in rural Alabama, has died aged 80.
• Local photographer and Exposed alum Joe Newman has launched a new website, Focus on the Story. Browse through two of the latest photo stories: The Hairdressers by Chris Suspect and Trumpland by Dimitrios Manis.
• And there’s a brand new collective in town that counts several past Exposed winners among its members. Albert Ting, Amanda Archibald, Andrew Golda, Brooke Linkow, Emily Long, Genna Byrd and Quynh Tonnu are The Rooftop Collective. Their debut photography show DCxRTC opens Wednesday, December 14 at Black Whiskey.
• Go see the new exhibit “I See! I See!” at the Washington Printmakers Gallery with photographs by Danny Schweers, opening November 30. Attend a reception Dec. 3, 1 to 5.p.m, and a slideshow and artist lecture Dec. 4, 3 p.m.
• Artomatic has announced they’ll be returning to Crystal City in 2017, the first time since 2012. Artists are sure to appreciate the closer and more metro-accessible location, after two events farther out in Maryland. You can still catch the current show in Park Potomac through December 9.
• Security firm Check Point has identified a new threat, dubbed ImageGate, which embeds malware in JPG files on social networks.
• Time Magazine publishes what they deem the 100 most influential photographs of all time. Curbed is pretty happy about Julius Shulman’s iconic Los Angeles architecture image making the list. They also picked their favorite photo books of 2016.
• In his new photobook Burn Zone, veteran photographer Danny Lyon takes on climate change, sharing names and phone numbers of “climate criminals” including Vice President-elect Mike Pence and the Koch brothers.The book is available on his site as a free PDF, and in print for $25.
• The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter — say that ten times quickly — sent back its first high resolution images of the red planet last week.
• Two elephants that were kept in captivity for 80 years were freed from their owners and released into Thailand’s Elephant Nature Park.
• “The beaver was apprehended at a dollar store in Charlotte Hall, Md., the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, apparently after browsing the selection of artificial Christmas trees and trashing the place.” The Washington Post, still doing local news right.

Be sure to head down to our Crystal City FotoWalk exhibit to enjoy the work of 12 local photographers.

• FotoweekDC is nearing its end, so catch what you can soon. At least stop by headquarters at National Geographic to see winners from the annual contest, a fantastic WPOW show, and an exhibit of NatGeo’s most popular Instagrams.
• DISTRICT II, an exhibition by the Historical Society of Washington D.C. of three local photographers from the mid- to late-20th century, opens Saturday at the National Building Museum.
• It’s officially last minute, but you can still get tickets to the 13th annual Transformer Silent Auction, one of the biggest art supporting events of the year, for Saturday night.
• “Video-art pioneer Bill Viola believes that cameras are the keepers of souls.” An exhibit of Viola’s work, “The Moving Portrait,” opens at the National Portrait Gallery today.
• “All Cameras are Good Cameras,” says this A+ headline for a story about a photo taken by Devon Allen during Baltimore’s Freddie Gray protests that shows how social media can further social change.
• A gallery of the “Beaver” Supermoon from around the world.
• The Guardian has some incredible before and after pictures of a ridiculously huge sinkhole in Japan that was fixed in two days.
• The deadline for the Los Angeles Times summer photo/video journalist internship is December 1.
• Need holiday gifts that show your love for D.C.? Get a framed print of one of the many wonderful past Exposed winners.
• Watch this polar bear pet a dog, as one does.

Missed the opening for our Crystal City FotoWalk show? Go take a stroll through it anytime for the next couple of months and enjoy the work of 12 local photographers.

• FotoWeekDC officially starts on Saturday, but the opening party at National Geographic is tonight. BYT has done our homework for us by highlighting all the events and exhibits featuring local photographers at this year’s extravaganza. Our old pal Pat Padua interviewed Soomin Ham for DCist, describing her photography at the Torpedo Factory as “a gut-wrenching exploration of loss and memory.” And don’t miss the screening of the excellent Bill Cunningham documentary “New York” on Wednesday evening.
• Exposed veteran Angela Kleis is in the juried exhibition FORMAT at Hillyer Art Space in Dupont Circle through December 18.
• Monday night provides a very rare lunar photo op: the largest supermoon in 69 years. Do peruse our guide to beginning astrophotography with tips from our favorite local sky shooters.
• So you go for a nice, relaxing walk in the woods to take your mind off the election results, and you end up with the photo of a lifetime.
• NYT staff photographer Damon Winter shared the portraits he made of Donald Trump on the campaign trail over the past year.
• “It’s motivating to see so many artfolk speak of art-ing harder in response to calamity.” Tyler Green started this encouraging Twitter thread.
• Leonard Cohen has died aged 82. TIME put together a gallery of the legendary singer-songwriter’s life in pictures.
• Afghanistan’s president welcomed back Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed “Afghan Girl” made famous by her image on the cover of National Geographic in 1985, after she was deported by Pakistan.
• The Golden State’s water crisis hits the District. Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz’s “Water: California” will be on display at National Geographic from November 12 through January 30.
• A wildlife sanctuary marketing department’s best nightmare?

Join us TONIGHT 5-8 p.m. to see 150 (!) photos in our new exhibit at the Crystal City FotoWalk. We have images by 12 local photographers whose work we’ve been following for years and are very proud to display in series. The Crystal City BID makes these exhibits possible, and will provide a wonderful opening reception for us tonight with an open bar and lots of snacks. Here’s a map of the photographers, and a map for parking. The FotoWalk is right above the Crystal City metro. See you there!

• The Miami Street Photography Festival 2016 finalists were announced this week. Congrats to seasoned Exposed alums Messay Shoakena and Paul Sharratt who were among the list of names of selectees from around the world.
• A photographer bucket list? Atlas Obscura put all 10,000 of what it deems “extraordinary sights” onto one map. Zoom into see the 100 or so around the D.C. area.
• The Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Australia has captured an image of the Milky Way that allows us to see the sky in 20 primary colors.
• Next Thursday, November 10, an Arlington-based conservation organization called Rare will host a free immersive video/audio/photo experimental installation about the life of fishers and the issues of overfishing, including work by photojournalist Jason Houston.
• The last photowalk in the Historical Society of Washington, D.C’s latest series, focusing on neighborhoods that will be featured in their On the Record exhibit, is this Sunday in Ivy City, 10 a.m.
• Photo ops: The circus is coming to Navy Yard Saturday, and the 8th annual DC Tweed Ride is Sunday.
• The day after the Cubs won the World Series, people immediately noticed the difference between the iconic image that appeared on the front page of the Chicago Tribune, which still employs a staff of photojournalists, and the nebulous image printed by the Chicago Sun-Times, which laid off its entire photography staff in 2013. (The Tribune photographer, Brian Cassella, totally planned the Fibonacci spiral.)
• The “world’s leading nature and wildlife photographers” among others will run the WildSpeak conference on photography, communications, and conservation at the Carnegie Institution for Science on November 15-16.
• Support one of our favorite local nonprofits by attending HI-ReSOLUTION with Critical Exposure on November 16. Your ticket price supports programs that teach D.C. youth to use photography to express themselves about social justice issue.
• The National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest ends today, November 4, at noon sharp.
• The Air & Space / Smithsonian 4th annual photo contest ends Sunday, November 6, at midnight. Winners in four categories get cash prizes and their images in the print magazine.
• A photo capturing the seemingly sad look on the face of a 4-day-old zebrafish embryo has won the 2016 Nikon Small World contest.

We’ve installed the new show at the Crystal City Fotowalk — and the photos look pretty darned gorgeous —  so now you just need to come celebrate with us at the opening reception next Friday, November 4 from 5 pm-8 pm!

• Exposed alum Andy Golda has been traveling around Pennsylvania, documenting the people and landscapes of the Keystone State on the eve of the 2016 election. Check out the project’s latest photos on Instagram or Facebook.
• FotoWeekDC yesterday announced their 2016 contest winners. Among the winners are two photographers featured in our new Crystal City Fotowalk exhibit, Kaitlin Jencso (Fine Art – Series) and David Wissman (Photographer’s Choice – Single), and Exposed veteran Chris Suspect (Photographer’s Choice – Series.)
• Photographers are reporting being harassed by private security officers at Union Market. D.C.’s Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice reminds us we can report behavior like this by calling the MPD office that handles private security, 202-671-0500.
• Sharbat Gula, the Afghan woman immortalized by Steve McCurry on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985 as a green-eyed 12-year-old has been arrested in Pakistan for holding fake identity papers.
• A photographer for the New York Times was traveling with an Iraqi counterterrorism force when they were hit by a car bomb.
• Dad turns his 6-year-old son’s drawings into reality. Best use of Photoshop. Ever.
• A photo posted to a Facebook group triggered a debate just as furious as that surrounding The Dress – is it Bill Murray impersonating a crying baby, or is it Tom Hanks?
• Two kittens were rescued from fire a by a photographer in North Dakota (video). The rescued animals have been named Pyro and Manny.