Join us tonight from 5-8 p.m. at Fathom Gallery Georgetown for the closing of our annual photography show. It’s your last chance to view the exhibition; come on the earlier side if you haven’t seen the show yet. We’ll have exhibition programs for sale along with the beautiful, framed exhibit photographs that we promise will look great on your wall, too. Thank you once again to everyone who made this year’s show a success!

• See powerful portraits by one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century in Gordon Parks’ exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, featuring 25 portraits he made between 1941 and 1970 mostly from the Corcoran Collection.
• Head to Freedom Plaza tomorrow at 5 p.m. for this month’s StreetMeetDC get together.
• Robert Miller has been promoted to Director of Photography at The Washington Post.
• Support Critical Exposure with Jeni’s Ice Cream through the end of the month! Every pint purchased at Jeni’s 14th St NW location will earn $2 for Critical Exposure; mention Critical Exposure at checkout or use code CriticalExposure for pickup or delivery orders in the app.
• Redeat Wondemu’s Phoenix Series, self portraits created with digital negatives on watercolor paper using the cyanotype method, closes this Sunday at IA&A at Hillyer. Admission is free, $10 suggested donation.
• The PROGRESSION fine art photography exhibition at Multiple Exposures Gallery is also closing on Sunday.
• Long before artificial intelligence, photographers altered images to burnish the reputations of politicians—from Lincoln to Stalin.
• An exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on the first century of advertising photography in the United States and Europe, capturing the evolution of photographic depiction over time.
• Join Capital Photography Center on August 4 at the Renwick Gallery to learn creative photo techniques using perspective, depth of field, focus, and subject isolation while exploring various styles of art.