• A new photo exhibit, For the Record: Changing D.C., featuring work by 30 local artists including Exposed alums Victoria Pickering, Mark Alan Andre and Shamila Chaudhary, opened yesterday at the Historical Society of Washington D.C.
• We featured a gallery last week, but now read the story behind those jaw-dropping photos of the collections at the Natural History Museum.
• Save the date! Thursday, June 2, 2016, 6pm-9pm: “BREAK THE FRAME” — Critical Exposure‘s Annual Youth Photography Exhibition. More details soon.
• The National Park Service is starting a cool Then & Now project in the Shenandoah.
• Have an idea to better connect people to photography? Apply for a $10,000 Crusade Engagement Grant to make it happen. Deadline, April 19.
• We love an airplane landing/takeoff close-up shot as much as anyone, but this tourist got more than he bargained for near a small Caribbean airport. Darwin just flinched.
• Talking of close-ups, check out these gorgeous photos of feathers.
• 31-year-old American, Kris Hernandez, became the first foreigner to train from scratch and work her way up into Japanese women’s pro wrestling.
• The Japanese village where human inhabitants are outnumbered by life-sized “scarecrow” dolls. Caution: will absolutely cause nightmares.
• Beautiful toilets from around the world, courtesy of Lonely Planet.
• I Looked Up and There You Were — an unusual angle on rescued dogs.
• And back to Japan (where else) for a hedgehog cafe.

• Donate your camera to the photographers at Street Sense, which offers the homeless economic opportunities through its bi-weekly newspaper.
• Carl Strüwe’s images find the beautiful and curious through a microscope.
• An incredible photo gallery showing the curators of Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History with their collections.
• We rely on photos to convey stories from around the world. What’s at stake when so few of those stories are told by women?
• Photographer Peter van Agtmael, on assignment for a European magazine, headed to Tennessee and Maryland in 2015 to photograph America’s most well-known hate group, including a wedding.
• American photographer Kevin Dawes, who disappeared in Syria three years ago, was released today by Syrian authorities. Exposed pal Bill Putnam, who has embedded with troops in Afghanistan, disputes the media categorizing him as a “photojournalist.”
• National Geographic Traveler magazine writes about why they featured the Instagram sensation #FollowMeTo on their latest cover.
• Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day includes a vibrant aurora.
• “In the future, we will photograph everything and look at nothing,” says the New Yorker in a stuffy headline for a thoughtful article.
• Bei Bei or Chow Chow?
• Cheeky monkey!

Don’t forget you can check out the 10th Anniversary Exposed DC Photography Show for free this evening from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Carnegie Library. The Historical Society of Washington D.C. will provide a cash bar, and we’ll be offering a range of Exposed items for sale. If you can’t make it out tonight, you have one more week to plan your visit — gallery hours are Saturday and Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., then we’ll close this year’s show next Friday, March 25, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., with a cash bar (and perhaps some celebratory cake? Mmm cake.). Now, onto this week’s links:

• Dig In is a new, local news site serving up longform journalism. Photojournalist and Exposed alum Andy DelGiudice is one of its creators.
• Tickets are now on sale for the LOOK3 photography festival in Charlottesville in June.
• IGDC announced a contest for photographers to have their photos of the Dupont Circle neighborhood used in a walking tour guide. Deadline: March 25.
• These two photo frames show how close a boy came to getting a bat in the face during a Pirates v. Braves spring training game — and the man next to him with serious Jedi movies.
• The internet can’t get enough of this woman’s angry Splash Mountain photo.
• Staff at Harvard College Observatory will spend the next year trying to salvage century-old photographic plates, taken by astronomers at Harvard and around the world, that were submerged in water when a pipe burst in January.
• It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for its 2016 Individual Photographer’s Fellowships program. Grants of up to $10,000 each will be awarded to artists working in photography and photo-based art.
• These photos of sand art around the world are gorgeous.
• You have plenty of time to book your flight to London to see more than 150 images from Elton John’s enviable photography collection when they go on exhibit at the Tate Modern in November.
• Instagram is switching its feed from chronological to best posts first. #filteredgram
• WIRED on why Flickr’s latest announcement signals the death of the longstanding photo-sharing service.
• In Senegal, wrestlers are more famous and earn more than footballers, using rituals, potions and amulets to secure victory.
• A sea turtle eating a jellyfish and so many more great images by the Underwater Photographers of the Year.

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.