• Petworthians: Your neighborhood D.C. public library wants to see the pictures you’ve taken of your community to make a “visual time capsule” from summer 2016. You can submit your photos through Flickr, and if you need help getting started, you can sign up for one of two free street photography classes on June 11 and 25, 10am-12pm, taught by Exposed DC alum Amanda Archibald. A showcase of the photography will be on August 11. Read more about DCPL’s Open Stories project here.
• The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Brookland is holding its annual photo contest. Visit the church and gardens and submit your photos by June 30 (non-professionals only).
• More street photography classes: Register with the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and learn from WCP staff photographer Darrow Montgomery for $30 on June 11, 10am-12:30pm.
• Go to the opening of “When Living is a Protest” with images by Ruddy Roye next Thursday, 7pm, at Leica Store DC.
• German photographer Arnold Genthe shows us 100-year-old Japan. These photos are now part of a larger collection at the Library of Congress.
• Nepalese girls are fighting the stigma around menstruation with photography.
• New Yorker has a piece on Jane Evelyn Atwood and her photos detailing the sensory experiences of blind children.
• The Louvre and Musée d’Orsay closed temporarily this week to move priceless artworks to higher ground as the threat of flooding from the Siene gets worse. See a gallery of the flooding around Paris in The Independent.
• WIRED is hiring a photography writer who can work remotely.
• A gallery of strange moments from the inauguration of Switzerland’s Gotthard tunnel, the “longest and deepest in the world.”
• Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren is pissed that NASA can’t get her pictures from Pluto instantaneously.
• “It’s as though photography has been sublimated to a necessary part of the total.” Career photography professor laments trend of work requiring too much explanation to be understood.
• Photo on Popville of Maryland congressman’s car sporting Lyft sticker leads to stories in the Washington Post and on CNN.
• Run, don’t waddle! A thousand Indian Runner ducks enjoying their pest control duties at a South African vineyard.

• It’s Memorial Day weekend in D.C., which means it’s time again for Rolling Thunder, the enormous demonstration in and around the National Mall to recognize POW and MIA soldiers from the Vietnam War. Between the hog parade and sea of leather vests — and apparently this year Donald Trump will make an appearance — it’s a photographer’s playground.
• Get tickets for Critical Exposure’s 2016 Break the Frame exhibit on June 2, featuring work by D.C. students that show how they think they’re perceived by their schools and communities.
• Sign up for the next street photography class series from the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. on June 11. This round, learn the basics from long-time WCP staff photographer Darrow Montgomery.
• You don’t have to be an APA member to enter the 2016 American Photographic Artists contest. Submit by June 29.
• Air & Space Magazine just announced the winners of its 3rd annual photo contest.
• Slate’s post featuring historical National Park photos might provide some old-timey inspiration for your weekend getaways.
• Take a looks at the winners of the Best of Russia photography competition. Though it’s a huge gallery, it’s worth your time.
• As President Obama becomes the first sitting president to visit the city, the Atlantic looks at Hiroshima today.
• India is suffering through a record-breaking heatwave.
• Incredible photos — and the story of what they couldn’t capture — from a violent clash between police and demonstrators at an oil refinery fire in France.
• The grounds of London’s Royal Hospital are prepared for the annual Chelsea Flower Show.
• The Washington Post has the story behind the West Point cadet photographed with tears running down his face during commencement.
• National Geographic hosted a fascinating Facebook Live Q&A with Charlie Hamilton James talking about camera traps and how he got his amazing Yellowstone and Grand Teton park photos.
• These photographers brought their studio to the sharks.

• Our Featured Instagrammers post has moved to Thursday! We’ll send a few of our favorites out in our new weekly newsletter with Friday Links. Tag your photos #exposeddc to get featured.
• The Corcoran is suffering more layoffs, including full-time instructors in the photography program, as it continues its integration into George Washington University.
• See South Korea’s Soomin Ham’s “retro images” at the Multiple Exposures Gallery in Alexandria. She talked to WCP’s Louis Jacobson about how she creates her work.
• See photographic studies on the aftermath of radiation in Chernobyl and Fukushima at Goethe-Institut. More great coverage from Jacobson in the WCP.
• A couple local photographers have reported being hit up with this text scam, so we’re passing on the warning. (Five minutes after sharing this with our team, our own James Calder got the text.)
• Sign up for one of the street photography workshops by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. The first one is this Saturday, focusing on architecture.
• Photographs soon won’t count against Twitter’s 140-character limit.
• I Remember California.
• Photographer Mark Hoelscher went out with the D.C. Department of Public Works for the “Great Graffiti Wipeout.”
• The New York Times features Exposed alum Monique Atherton’s work on age, sexuality, and worth.
• Malcom X was born yesterday in 1925. The Museum of Modern Art shares Gordon Parks’ 1963 photo from its collection.
• Advice for young photographers on how to capture the fringes of society.
• The only way to end a week: 10 great wins for endangered species.

• Yayoi Kusama is coming to the Hirshhorn and Instagrammers are already getting itchy trigger fingers. Lavanya Ramanathan makes the case that the museum should ban camera phones at the exhibit. Is the author making a case based on practical concerns, or does it sound like art elitism? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
• Grab your camera and get outside on Tuesday, May 24 at noon, when the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds fly in formation with smoke trails just 1,000 feet over the National Mall.
• Another photo op in the making in Chinatown.
• Enter the Washington Printmakers’ National Small Works Exhibition contest for prints and photography by May 21.
• Adamson Gallery, host of print and photography shows in DC since 1982, is closing its 14th street gallery, though the printing shop in Blagden Alley will remain open.
• On Monday, President Obama made the bison our national mammal, so here are 10 photos of bison from National Geographic.
• The job was meant to be capturing official handshakes, but it turned into documenting history.
• Photographer Spencer Tunick is planning a photo shoot during the GOP Convention in Cleveland featuring 100 naked women. Volunteers needed.
• Steve McCurry was caught photoshopping items in and out of photos. He released a statement blaming it on the printing technician. However our own Sanjay Suchak noticed a photo in the most recent story on his blog where McCurry obviously cloned out an object in the middle of the sidewalk. So we’re guessing this is more widespread than just these few.
• Instagram announced a new logo and whole new design, leading to The Great Instagram Logo Freakout of 2016. “Skeuomorphism is dead” quoth the NY Times.
• Dear Adobe, please buy Flickr.
• Two airlines, Canadian North and West Jet, are bending the rules and letting pets travel uncrated with their owners who are fleeing the Fort McMurray wildfires, and there are pictures to prove it.

Umbrellas in Motion, 18th and I Street NW by Britt Leckman

Tonight! Join us for our May photographer happy hour and the opening reception for our 10-year retrospective of winning Exposed DC images in the Crystal City underground Fotowalk. They’re printed huge and beautiful, and we’ll have an open bar with snacks courtesy the fine folks at the Crystal City BID. There will be a handful of other art openings to poke your head into, a mural unveiling, and an open house at the Synetic Theater. Just hop off the metro and turn left into the walkway and you can’t miss it. Our happy hour is right in the middle of the exhibit walk.

• Portraits of H Street: Then & Now opens tomorrow, May 7 at Gallery O on H from 7-11pm. The show closes May 13.
• Photo op: The annual Funk Parade will groove down U Street this Saturday.
• D.C. announced plans this week for 15 pop-up art projects around the city.
• 33 rescued circus lions were airlifted from Peru and Colombia to South Africa.
• Your dog doesn’t like your hugs, according to one expert: “The Internet contains many pictures of happy people hugging what appear to be unhappy dogs.”
• Thursday was International Astronaut Day, so here’s a gallery of real astronauts from the AP and fictional astronauts on 500px.
• The Marine Corps is investigating whether it misidentified one of the six men shown raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in February 1945, the moment captured in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph.
• The Colossal has picked some of its favorites among the entrants for National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest.
• “When the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopens on May 14, its entire third floor will be devoted to photography.”
• Instagram presented a 10-year-old Finnish boy who discovered a bug in their app with a $10,000 reward.
• An adorable baby beaver was lost outside the Van Ness metro this week, but D.C. animal control captured it and released it back into the wild.