On Friday, November 4, join us for a brand new exhibit at the Crystal City Fotowalk! We’ve invited 12 photographers to share a series of their work, to get a better glimpse into the vision and style of some of our favorite local artists. Join us for an Exposed DC opening reception with an open bar and snacks in the Synetic Theater Lobby. Featured photographers: Richard Barnhill, Shamila Chadhaury, Tina dela Rosa, James Jackson, Kaitlin Jencso, Rachel Mooney, Kyle Myles, Angela Napili, Diriki Rice, Caroline Space (yes, our In Frame curator gets to show off her images this time!), Chris Williams, and David Wissman.

• The Punk and Go-Go photo exhibit at the MLK branch of the D.C. Library opened on October 15 and features collected works from the community. See it until November 30.
• See “Muriel Hasbun & Caroline Lacey: Calling to You,” a photographic exhibition about legacy, the construction of memory, and cultural identity, at Civilian Art Projects before it closes at the end of Saturday.
• The Washington City Paper writes about Blagden Alley’s long arts history and how its coming to an end.
• Here are all of Pete Souza’s photos from President Obama’s last state visit and dinner, hosting guests from Italy, featuring Mario Batali, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, and of course, Michelle Obama’s stunning gown.
• Here are six great places to photograph fall foliage.
• The New York Times profiles William Eggleston and declares him to be “every bit as brilliant, confounding and heartbreakingly soulful as the pictures he makes.”
• Follow Air & Space Magazine on Instagram — @airspacemag — to see work by lots of great local photographers like Dave Wissman (next week) and (upcoming) Cameron Davidson, Bill Putnam, and Joseph Gruber. These Instagram takeovers are run by Exposed’s Heather Goss, so if you have some great aviation or astronomy photographs to share, or you’d like to recommend someone who does, drop her a line.
• The 2017 Vladimir Putin calendar has been sneak-previewed by the BBC’s Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg, which has of course prompted the interwebs to come up with their own creations, including a bare-chested Putin riding a giant kitten, and a rather NSFW Putin-Trump coupling.
• The Natural History Museum in the UK announced their 2016 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners and they are worth all your time.
• These are presumably all the outtakes from the Wildlife contest.

• Sign up for two photo walks this weekend with the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. in the neighborhoods of Burleith and Congress Heights, two of the places that will be featured in their For the Record photo contest.
• Register now for Artomatic 2016. This, the eighth iteration of the local, unjuried show opens November 3 and takes place in Potomac Park in Maryland. The cost is $140 and requires volunteer hours.
• Check out the schedule at the Leica Store for the next few months, including a Monthly Group Critique this Sunday at 2pm, a print exchange, a cosplay photoshoot, and more.
• If you’re an independent female photographer, send your info to Danielle Zalcman by the end of the weekend to go into a database she’s putting together.
• An investigation by the ACLU revealed that data marketing company Geofeedia has been sifting through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in order to provide data to police departments. In one case, the Baltimore Police Department was able to make real-time maps and use facial recognition software to find and arrest protestors after the death of Freddie Gray. All three social media services have since terminated access to Geofeedia.
• The Washington Post profiles Wayne Sherwin, who has been photographing Washington, D.C. for 70 years.
• “The deserts of Rajasthan in northwestern India are expansive, but the photographs of Gauri Gill go narrow and deep.” WCP’s Louis Jacobson reviews the new Sackler and Freer Galleries exhibit.
• Astrophotographers: Would you be interested in a celestial object finder/tracker for your DSLR, and if so, what would it be like? Help a senior from the Rochester Institute of Technology develop one by filling out her survey by the end of the weekend.
• Go inside an underground amusement park in Syria built by volunteers.
• Two critically endangered eastern black rhinos that were bred in England have given birth to two babies in Tanzania. Only 700 of the rhinos are thought to remain.
• Don’t worry. This poor bald eagle that got stuck in a car’s grill during Hurricane Matthew is totally fine and in no way a metaphor for our nation right now.

• This is how you build a grand photography collection for a new African-American museum.
• Photo op: The next two Saturdays, October 8 and 15, 11:30am-2pm, head to the Kogod Courtyard to watch The Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company (Burgess is the National Portrait Gallery’s first choreographer-in-residence) rehearse for their upcoming performance “Margin,” which will also be in the Courtyard on October 28.
• America’s Test Kitchen’s Director of Photography discusses the behind-the-scenes shooting of 1,000+ photos for Bread Illustrated.
• Go see Adrienne Moumin‘s hand-printed silver gelatin photographs at Hill Center Galleries. The exhibit opened October 6; attend a reception October 19.
• A golf photo? Yes, a golf photo.
• More in the Darwin Photographer awards: “Tourists in Indonesia ignored instructions to flee an erupting volcano so they could continue taking photos, the country’s disaster agency has said.” Friends, please know there is a special place in hell for people who put emergency services personnel in danger so that they can post the perfect Instagram.
• The deadline for the FotoWeekDC 2016 competition is tomorrow.
• Sean Graesser’s vivid bird portraits imitate life in the style of John James Audubon.

 

Rain or shine, join us Thursday evening for our October happy hour up on the terrace at Jack Rose in Adams Morgan. Have a drink, chat about about cameras, camera phones, new museums, temperaments, and whatever else is on your mind!

• Go to a discussion with photographer Vince Lupo at Leica Store DC to hear what ‘Spirit of the West’ means to him, Sunday, October 2, 2 p.m.
• Saturday afternoon at Capital Fringe, attend the closing reception for the Community Collective show, which we helped judge.
• Sign up now for APA|DC’s first annual portfolio review at Union Station on Wednesday, October 5, 6:30 p.m.
• The Historical Society of Washington D.C.’s is holding street photography classes in the neighborhoods that will feature in their For The Record exhibit next spring.
• Cool local job alerts! Smithsonian Magazine is hiring an Associate Photography Editor, and the National Museum of Natural History has a vacancy for a Photographer. Both are full-time positions.
• Pulitzer Prize winning D.C. photographer Lucian Perkins (a previous Exposed judge) has created his first full-length documentary. The Messengers follows the patients and caregivers at Joseph’s House, a hospice in Adams Morgan for homeless men and women dying from AIDS.
• Time magazine interviews AP photographer Evan Vucci (also a previous Exposed judge) about his Year on the Campaign Trail with Donald Trump.
• Leica announced the winners of this year’s Oskar Barnack awards. French photographer Scarlett Coten took the top prize for her series of images challenging the archetypes of masculinity in the Arab world, while fellow countrywoman Clémentine Schneidermann won best newcomer for her work documenting the town of Abertillery in South Wales.
• The incredible story of Joao Maia, a visually impaired photographer capturing the Paralympic Games in Rio (video).
• LensCulture picks their top 100 street photographers, including many time Exposed winner Messay Shoakena.
• “Behind many Instagram accounts featuring filtered selfies and sun-kissed beaches is a second account reserved for close friends and full of willfully unattractive shots.” The story behind neologisms Rinstagram and Finstagram.
• Nature photographer Doug Giles captured an incredible and rare interspecies adoption, while an amateur Scottish shutterbug snapped this amazing shot of starlings “dancing”.

• You can now go see the new baby orangutan at the National Zoo. Redd, born to mom Batang and dad Kyle last week, is “thriving.” We look forward to your family portraits!
• Feeling inspired by the change in seasons? Sign up for one of the many classes offered by the Capital Photography Center. Street, sports, night, and family photography classes start as early as this Saturday — even winery photography!
• This Saturday, see work by six distinguished members of the Exposure Group African American Photographers Association (event isn’t listed) in Brookland at the new Tolbert & Bing Gallery, 716 Monroe St NE, 6 to 9 p.m.
• Spend some time this weekend with the New York Times Magazine’s stunning Voyages issue. Six photographers take you on journeys through Ethiopia, Albania, Australia, Finland, Peru, and Spain.
• Photos and links no longer count in Twitter’s 140 character limit. Make your five extra words count! Or not. It is Twitter after all. (Follow us here!)
• On Monday night a disgusting tweet by Donald Trump’s son comparing Syrian refugees to a bowl of Skittles went viral. Among Junior’s many and varied insults here, the photo is copyrighted and was used without permission from the photographer: a Turkish refugee who’s now a British citizen.
• With an inaugural gift of $400,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR has established a fund for “equipment, training and support for international coverage and video journalism at NPR” dedicated to David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna, the photo journalist and interpreter who were killed while on assignment in Afghanistan in June.
• The New Yorker has a story about “a medical secretary in Paris who persuaded scores of renowned photographers to take her picture.”
• More police shootings are now being caught on camera, but they aren’t being released to the public.
• Photographer Gerrard Gethings takes these satisfying portraits of “Ordinary Creatures” and discusses how he does it (extremely amusingly) at the Guardian.