- Save the date for our next session of free photography classes with Knowledge Commons DC this November! Take lessons in food photography, street photography, Holga photography, and photographing airplanes from Gravelly Point. Learn more about it at our next monthly happy hour on November 10. Keep up with all our upcoming events (including the impending 10th anniversary photo contest and exhibition) with our newsletter.
- Artomatic 2015 opens tonight with a huge building full of photography and other art. This year’s location is in Hyattsville, a short walk from the New Carrollton metro stop.
- FotoWeekDC starts November 7. See the whole events calendar here.
- Dog photobombs couple’s engagement shoot in the best way possible: “He’s a show stopper.”
- Before her death at just 22 years old, Francesca Woodman became one of the most seductive and haunting photographers of all time.
- “But [Mayor Bowser’s] first major arts decision, and perhaps the one that will most profoundly affect culture in the District for years to come — is bizarre and unaccountable.”
- Magnum Photos has partnered with UN Women to present images on the 15th anniversary of the UN Security Council resolution that recognized the critical importance of women’s participation in peacemaking and peacebuilding.
- Carlos Barria photographed a person born in each year China’s one-child policy was in existence, from a man born in 1979 to baby Jin Yanxi born in 2014.
- The crazy world of flavorings, colorings, sweetners, preservatives, and thickeners — some of modern America’s favorite foods taken apart in a series of still-life images.
- The Atacama desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth, is awash in pink flowers after crazy El Nino rains.
- There’s a pumpkin in every pot for zoo animals this time of year.
