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.

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.