- Join the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for a Women’s History Month Wikipedia edit-a-thon presented with support from Wikimedia DC on Tuesday from 2-5 p.m.
- The 2024 Working Scientist photo competition is open for entries that showcase the work that scientists do all around the world. Note that professional photographers appear ineligible for this call.
- Enjoy a thread of photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance.
- The 2024 Leica Women Foto Project Awardees have been announced with projects that cover societal preconceptions, postpartum depression, surrealism, and contemporary indigenous women of different ages.
- Miles Myerscough-Harris used a camera from 1897 to recreate a 100-year-old team photo of the AIK soccer club.
- The USPS will pay tribute to photographer Ansel Adams with a stamp collection featuring 16 of his images.
- The Annual DC History Conference returns for its 50th anniversary at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library April 4-6, free. We’ll be there for the History Network on Friday, April 5 from 1:15-3:15 p.m.
Friday Links: March 8, 2024
- Artomatic opens today at 2100 M Street NW, noon to 11:45 p.m. and runs through April 28. Check out all the events here.
- Join senior lecturer David Gariff at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday at noon as he discusses the innovative work of ten women photographers.
- Steve Simon, aka The Passionate Photographer, will give an honest evaluation of photographs submitted in an online session hosted by LaCie on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
- The exhibit “New Perspective on the New Thing: A Photography Exhibition Documenting D.C.’s Revolutionary Community Arts Center, 1966-1972” at the Katzen Arts Center closes on March 17 and was reviewed in the Washington Post.
- Ami Vitale is holding a contest for a female-identifying photographer to travel with her and Vital Impacts on a 22-day Polar Latitudes expedition to the Falkland Islands/Malvinas, South Georgia and Antarctica.
- Ivan McClellan spent nearly a decade documenting the lives, wins, and losses of the Black rodeo community from Alabama to Los Angeles in his project, “Eight Seconds.”
- Check out this monthly roundup of open calls, residencies, and grants for artists.
Friday Links: March 1, 2024
Thank you to everyone who joined us for happy hour last week and congratulations again to the winners of this year’s photo contest! We look forward to celebrating with everyone at the show this summer, as well as getting back to regular happy hours and other social gatherings. It’s always great spending time together with this amazing photography community.
- Maryland PPA has announced their annual photography conference. Join them for three days of peer connection and instruction in wedding, commercial, fine art, and senior portraiture. Find out more about this April 11-13 event and register at https://marylandppa.com/24MDPPA.
- Head to the National Gallery of Art tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. to hear photojournalism students reflect on Dorothea Lange’s work and career in light of their own photographic practices and research inquiries today.
- Thirty finalists have been chosen for the Sony World Photography Awards 2024 with winners to be announced in April.
- Vanity Fair photographer David Seidner is being honored with a proper one-man retrospective as part of the International Center for Photography’s 50th anniversary.
- Critical Exposure is bringing back Stories for Action, a 10-week program for high school-aged youth interested in exploring social justice issues through photography. Sessions start March 5; submit the interest form.
- Annie Leibovitz traveled to seven countries documenting different ideas of family for a project with IKEA. In addition to taking photographs, she also selected six photography mentees to guide in their own projects about home.
- Photographers from around the world submitted roughly 6,500 photographs for 13 contest categories vying for the title of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.
Friday Links: February 16, 2024
In one week, we’ll be announcing the winners of our 18th annual photography contest along with some exciting news about our show! Check back next Friday, February 23 and join us that evening for happy hour at metrobar. Looking forward to toasting another year of great photography with you all!
- Applications for the Black Women Photographers x Nikon Grants are due tomorrow before midnight.
- Washington Post staff photographer Marvin Joseph shares the joy of making portraits.
- Registration is open for spring and summer classes at Glen Echo Photoworks on everything from the darkroom to cyanotypes and digital.
- You can also RSVP now for Photoworks’ event, “From Passion to Purpose” with renowned photojournalist Cheriss May on Friday, February 23 from 7-8:30 p.m., free.
- Join APA | DC tomorrow at The National Portrait Gallery Kogod Courtyard from noon to 2:00 p.m. for their February Coffee Break meetup, photo book edition.
- In a remarkable feat not just of photography but also scheduling, forty iconic women cover the March 2024 issue of British Vogue, Edward Enninful’s last as Editor-In-Chief.
- Paul McCartney’s own photos, shot 60 years ago, capture the Beatles’ first tour as they took Europe and America by storm.
Friday Links: February 9, 2024
- BigPicture is offering a special discount to women photographers who enter the annual Natural World Photography Competition.
- The winner of the Natural History Museum of London’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year award captured a captivating image of a polar bear sleeping on sea ice.
- Journalist and stylist Marcellas Reynolds talks about his new photography book, “Supreme Sirens,” which details the impact of women’s careers and how their music is the soundtrack of our lives.
- Winners of this year’s International Garden Photographer of the Year competition include abstracts, close-ups, and, of course, some critters.
- Head to the Katzen Arts Center for a panel discussion about “New Perspective on the New Thing: A Photography Exhibition Documenting DC’s Revolutionary Community Arts Center, 1966-1972,” tomorrow at 2:00 p.m., free.
- An experimental philosopher at the University of Arizona set up a camera to capture a single image of a desert landscape in Tucson over the span of 1,000 years.
- Join Glen Echo Photoworks for an opening reception for Marvin Tupper Jones’ exhibition Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
- Ari Jaaksi explores the concept of artistic breakthroughs using examples from history to inspire photographers.
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