• 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.

• The studio of photographer Lynn Goldsmith has accused the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery of copyright violation when they distributed her image of Prince in a press release and made it freely available to download following the singer’s death last week.
• Were you quick enough to nab your ticket to see Raise/Raze at Dupont Underground? Maybe more dates will be added for this great photo op.
• This Saturday, 2-4pm, is the opening reception of group show The Art of Freedom: War, Peace, and Everything in Between at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, featuring work by veterans and active members of the military, including The Exposure Group’s George Tolbert.
• Last week the Maryland Historical Society launched baltimoreuprising2015.org: “a digital repository that seeks to preserve and make accessible original content that was captured and created by individual community members, grassroots organizations, and witnesses to the protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015.”
• If you live in Romania, your (clean) laundry may be airing on Instagram.
• On a visit to a downtown L.A. gun range, Jane Hilton chose not to focus on the people wielding the weapons, but on the targets instead.
• In Japan in the 1950s, there were contests to see who could deliver the most soba. On bicycles. In boxes stacked to the sky.
• Talking of bikes, the cycling museum in Roeselare, West Flanders, closed for lengthy renovations in 2015, so they rented a nearby deconsecrated church to host an exhibition.
• When science and photography collide.
• The flood of Kurdish refugees into Turkey compelled a teenager to ditch school and travel to the border with Syria, where he documented Kurdish fighters clashing with the Islamic State.
• Reuters photographer Bassam Khabieh wins the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club for his Syria coverage.
• Ospreys, king penguins, and yellow-billed oxpeckers: The 2016 Audubon Photography Award winners are a feather-covered joy.
• Our first nominee for the newly created Exposed DC “Best Use of a Stock Photo for an Animal Story” award.

Happy Earth Day! Remember to turn off a light or recycle your water bottle or whatever silly thing your HR department encouraged you to do for one single day a year.

• Rest in peace, Prince. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Prince’s hometown paper, has a photo gallery of the superstar’s incredible life. Last night, the world mourned by turning purple.
• Go to the opening of Mirror to the World, including work by Exposed alum Michele Egan, at Glen Echo Photoworks Gallery tonight from 6 to 8 p.m.
• Congrats to Alexandria photographer Cindy Dyer, whose image of a waterlily from Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens was one of 16 selected to go on the U.S. Postal Service’s Forever Stamp to commemorate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary.
• New at National Museum of Women in the Arts, She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.
• Impending entomological photo op? You may need to go slightly west.
• A selection of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning photographs.
• A French photographer is being prosecuted for taking a photo of a man fatally injured in November’s terrorist attacks in Paris. The controversial “Guigou law” bans the publication of photos of victims on the grounds that it violates their rights to human dignity.
• Photographer Kate Warren does an excellent job illustrating Amanda Whiting’s story on D.C.’s “maddening” pot laws in the Washingtonian.
• Ghost photobombs guest at hotel that inspired “The Shining”.
• Astronaut photography from space helped “discover” Earth.
• The Crusade for Art grant deadlines are due at midnight tonight.
• “A hairy beast walking wouldn’t bother anybody too much here, as long as it minded its own business.”