Have you bought your advance tickets to our 10th anniversary show reception yet? It’s going to be our biggest and best opening party EVER!! If you don’t have it in your calendar yet, mark it down right now: Thursday, March 10, 6pm to 10pm!

• Befitting our 10th anniversary, our venue is the gorgeous Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square, courtesy of our wonderful hosts the Historical Society of Washington D.C.
• We’ve also partnered with an amazing assortment of local photography organizations: Critical Exposure, Capital Photography Center*, The Exposure Group, IGDC & HOIST, APA|DC, and Leica DC, who will all join in the celebration, each with their own special setup at the event. *Don’t forget to send a photo to Capital Photography Center for your chance at a critique!
• Your ticket includes complimentary craft beer from the superb Bluejacket Brewery, along with wine, soft drinks and snacks.
• You’ll be bowled over by the 47 beautiful, local images all made by area photographers, including our five Best in Show prize winners Messay Shoakena, Arpita Upadhyaya, Chris Suspect, Kevin Wolf and Andrew Golda.
• Our commemorative 10th Anniversary magazine is NOW ON SALE! Order online, or buy yours in person at the March 10 opening. It features all the images from this year’s exhibit, as well as from the previous four years of Exposed, including work by Bill Coyle (aka biketripper) who also took that tremendous photo above!
• Due to an unforeseen schedule change at the Carnegie Library, the exhibit dates are now: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4pm; Saturday, March 12, 10am-4p; Closing day, Friday, March 25.
• Buy those advance tickets!

And now, back to your regularly scheduled linkage:

• In a case involving two Philadelphia residents suing city police for using excessive force against them, a federal judge has ruled that civilians have no constitutional protection to film cops, except under specific, highly subjective circumstances.
• NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is the only American to have spent 340 days in space. In addition to his research, he captured his unique view of the Earth.
• If you thought taking photos in public with an iPad was embarrassing, you haven’t seen the MacBook Selfie Stick.
• The National Press Photographers Association has issued a strong statement about the Secret Service throw-down of a photojournalist at a Trump rally on Monday.
• Dazed features the women at the frontline of documentary photography.
• Patti Smith is “not trying to change the world with photography.”
• The breathtaking, disorienting terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
• In Josef Schulz’s poignant series Übergang, the Düsseldorf-based photographer documents Europe’s abandoned checkpoints.
• Local porcine celeb-let Wee Wee the pig and his new BFF Scooter show off their new matching sweaters.

Have you gotten tickets to our 10th anniversary photography show yet? Excellent local photography organizations Critical Exposure, Capital Photography Center, The Exposure Group, IGDC, HOIST, APA|DC, and Leica DC are joining us to celebrate the evening. We’ll have craft beer from the amazing folks at Bluejacket Brewery, and you can see 47 images of the metro area from photographers like Shamila Chaudhary, who also took that lovely image above. We’ll also be announcing the 5 winners of our Best in Show prize next week, so stay tuned! Now, here are you links for the week:

• Today is the last day to see DISTRICT, photographs of D.C. from the 1960s and 70s by Chris Earnshaw. See it before 4 p.m. at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (home to our photography show in March).
• How’s your photography really going? Find out by signing up for the Women Photojournalists of Washington seminar and portfolio review on March 5.
• Themes covered in this year’s Sony World Photography Organisation awards include the Ukraine conflict, Europe’s refugee crisis, and drone and underwater photography.
• A look inside photographer fees offered by some of the big publications.
• After losing a good friend to cancer, former Exposed winner Cynthia Sambro-Rier is offering her professional portrait services free to anyone in the DC-area with cancer who would like photos of themselves and their families.
• Smithsonian Magazine and Air & Space Magazine both announced the finalists of their annual photo contests this week.
• Stacy Kranitz writes the best captions for her documentary photos on Instagram.
• A shipwrecked fishing boat in northern California that had been left to photogenically decay got some help last week from a photographer who allegedly spun hot wool to light a photograph and started a fire that took three hours to put out.
• The world of horse racing is the focus of Alan Crowhurst, 2015 Sports Photographer of the Year at the British Sports Journalists’ Association awards.
• Photo op alert: Giant glowing bunnies are coming to The Yards on Saturday.
• One word: PhoDOGraphers.

Don’t forget to buy your tickets for the massive opening reception for our 10th Anniversary show at the Carnegie Library — it’s going to be uh-mazing, so make the most of advance ticket pricing and nab yours today!

• The DC Public Library will soon be opening a Memory Lab at the MLK location where people can digitize old photos and home videos.
• “It almost looks like a real human.” The new British Ambassador’s rather awkward photo with President Obama.
• A selection of the recently announced World Press Photo 2016 prize-winning images.
• Our greatest modern dream has come to pass: Instagram now lets you switch accounts without logging out.
• Journalist Anna Day and her unnamed three-person camera crew, all American, were released from custody in Bahrain on Tuesday after being arrested on Sunday while covering the anniversary of the 2011 uprising. They’ve been formally charged by the state for “unlawful obstruction of vehicles and attending unlawful gatherings.”
• David Douglas Duncan, a distinguished American photojournalist turned 100 years old last month, and is best known for his coverage of conflict.
• The story behind an intriguing author photo over at The Awl.
• At Horsetail Falls in Yosemite, “every year for two weeks in February, the sun sets at a certain angle and illuminates the waterfall in luminescent orange and red, making it look like a fluid fire.”
• Will we all be using lens-less cameras soon?
• Misty Copeland recreated iconic Degas artwork for Harper’s Bazaar.
• During its brief lifetime in the 1940s, the activist PM New York Daily newspaper wasn’t a top seller, but it ran more photographs than any of its competitors.
• Dutch police are working with a raptor-training security firm to use eagles to snatch unauthorized drones out of the sky.
• Have you dreamed of photographing penguins or underwater sea caves? NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers program is open again. A summary of past artists’ work is here.
• Australian dog trainer and former surfing champion Chris de Aboitiz hits the waves with his four rescue pups to teach owners how to build healthy relationships with their dogs.
• Adorable baby polar bear experiences snow for the first time.

Don’t forget to join us at Right Proper Brewing in Shaw next Tuesday evening for our February Happy Hour! Until then, chug down this week’s 12-pack of links:

• The New York Times has launched an ambitious online project, Unpublished Black History, to which they will be adding unpublished photos from their archives daily through February.
• Yahoo! is laying off 15% of its workforce, which means Flickr is being scaled back so that it can operate with minimal oversight.
• Enjoy the winners of National Geographic’s photography competition for kids. The international and U.S. competitions attracted nearly 18,000 entries, displaying a child’s perspective of the world.
• Despite their current situation, children who have fled the conflict in Syria dream of what the future holds for them, and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) sent photographer Meredith Hutchison to find out.
• This month, the New York Public Library announced the release of thousands of documents, including some well-known, historical photographs, that the public is free to use or display.
• You may have heard about the Angulo brothers when the Sundance prize-winning documentary The Wolfpack came out last year. Now photographer Dan Martensen’s new book, Wolves Like Us, shows the six Angulo brothers in portraits, documenting the 14 years they spent in their Lower East Side apartment, where an authoritarian father kept them hidden along with their mother and sister. They learned about the outside world largely by watching movies, which they imaginatively recreated with their own homemade sets, props, and costumes.
• Palani Mohan traveled to the barren and frigid Altai mountains of western Mongolia to document the few remaining burkitshi — Kazakh men who hunt on horseback with golden eagles. (You might remember the 13-year-old Kazakh girl learning to hunt with her eagle, which we linked to in 2014.)
• This seaside town in Italy’s deep south has long been a hotbed for the Calabrian mafia, which uses threats and violence to extort virtually every businessman, from the pizzerias to the fishmongers. But the 12 young women of the Sporting Locri soccer club refused to cave in to fear when the club president said he received threats from the mob to shut down the club or else.
• Compare then and now images in this gallery by Guardian photographer David Levene, who traveled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the great cities of the world.
• For a little over $800,000 you can snap up a former nuclear bunker in Northern Ireland that was a state secret until 2007. The facility sleeps 236 and includes double blast doors and decontamination chambers.
• Pyotr Pankratau was a soldier in the Belarussian army when he rescued a weak baby squirrel on the verge of death. Two years later, Pankratau is now a taxi-driver, but the squirrel never leaves his side.
• Wee Wee the pig now has his own Facebook page.

• Next week, the National Cathedral hosts Seeing Deeper – they’re taking out the chairs, and the scaffolding will be gone, so you can feel (and photograph) a cathedral that looks “a lot like it would have during medieval times.”
• Rest in peace, Concepcion Picciotto, and thanks to Biketripper for adding this great photo of her to our Flickr pool.
• We told you about the National Park Service opening a position for a new Ansel Adams last December; now NPR interviews the agency about what the photographer will do. (The lucky person will be announced in a few months.)
• Photographer Kevin Abosch just sold a photograph of an Irish potato for 1 million euros to an anonymous European businessman.
• Finding Vivian Maier, the crowdsourced documentary about the street photographer whose work was unknown until hundreds of thousands of her photos were discovered a few years ago, is coming to Netflix on February 28.
• This cat sticks his tongue out for concentration while taking his selfies.
• To some, it was as if she had met a celebrity rock star. To others, this woman looked pretty terrified. In fact Robin Roy is one very eager supporter of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
• “A picture is worth a thousand words. The Soviet Photobook reminds us how many of those words can be lies, handsomely delivered” – an interesting review of this nine pound propoganda photobook by Exposed-alum Pat Padua.
• When Electrolux closed its factory in a small Iowa town, residents learned how globalization is more than just a buzzword tossed about during presidential caucuses.
• Renowned for her photographs of jazz and rock legends of the 1960s and 70s, Leni Sinclair has been announced as the Kresge Foundation’s Eminent Artist of 2016.
• A Norwegian chain of Arctic islands is seeking to turn numbing cold and total winter darkness into a draw for visitors who usually only venture north for the midnight sun during fleeting summers.
• From pinstriped suits to sporting successes – and life on the farm in wartime – images from the Bank of England’s photo vaults.
• Photographer Corinne Botz takes us inside the bizarre world of simulated doctor-patient relationships.
• The “Postcards from Home” project, run by Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte, features nine Glasgow-based artists’ photographs of their homeland, printed as actual postcards.
• For more than 2,500 out-of-service New York City subway cars, the bottom of the Atlantic is the final destination after they were enlisted for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s artificial reef program.
• A fashion photographer takes these clever subversive selfies (though the gif bits are a little creepy).
• This adorable sloth tried to cross a road In Ecuador, but got stuck half way.
• A wonderful gallery of the piglet saved from the snowstorm by a Chevy Chase family, and then adopted by the Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary where he’s now a warm and snugly pig in a blanket.