As we continue preparing for the 17th Annual Exposed DC Photography Show, we’re excited to announce our special guest judges who will be selecting the Best in Show winners this year. We invite you to get to know them now and check back later to see which photos caught their attention. Stay tuned for more updates and save the date for our opening celebration on Sunday, June 4 at Lost Origins Outside!

• PortraitMeetDC is heading to Jones Point Park on Sunday from 3:00-6:00 p.m.
• The winner of the creative open category of the Sony World Photography Awards is refusing his prize after revealing the work was actually an AI creation, a cheeky test of the competition.
• Check out the rest of the winning images of the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards. At least, we sure hope they are! Too soon?
• Pentax announced a DSLR designed exclusively for black and white photography.
• Award-winning photographer Jeremy Cowart will attempt to produce 10,000 original photography-based NFTs in approximately 20 minutes in front of a live audience.
• Godland, a new Icelandic/Danish drama, depicts the struggles of being a camera owner in the 19th century.
• The 2023 Women Photograph Grant Cycle is open for applications through May 15 with $35,000 available in project funding to support the work of women and nonbinary photographers.
• The 21st edition of the Magnum Square Print Sale is live through Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
• Winning photographers of the LensCulture Portrait Awards share insights about their photos.

• Local photographer Dee Dwyer takes viewers on a visual journey into the heart of Southeast D.C. in her exhibition at Phillips@THEARC on view Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through May 11. Washington City Paper interviewed her earlier this year so you can find out more about the show and her career in this piece.
• Did you know there’s a World Photographic Cup? They recently announced results of their 10th competition.
• Catch episodes of the Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography, a forum for leading photographers to discuss contemporary issues in the medium, on YouTube with Sunil Gupta, Dawoud Bey, Lorna Simpson, Teju Cole, and Fazal Sheikh.
• Applications are open through April 21 for the first edition of FotoFilmic’s annual mentoring program.
• Join Mac Cosgrove-Davies for a shadowgram sunprinting workshop at Arlington’s Central Library tomorrow at 10:30 a.m., free, first-come, first-served until capacity is reached.
• The Maryland Photography Alliance is hosting the 2023 Odyssey of Light webinar this weekend, $35 with a MPA member discount available as well.
• The 2022 Architectural Photography Awards Photo of the Year prize was awarded to Gerry O’Leary for his trippy image of the Maraya Concert Hall, a giant mirrored building in the desert of Saudi Arabia.
• The New York Times breaks down the latest on artificial intelligence generated imagery.
• Also, the Copyright Office has issued a new policy statement that clarifies its practices for examining and registering works that contain material generated by artificial intelligence.

• Check out the first edition of the Capital Art Book Fair at Eastern Market’s North Hall tomorrow from noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• The winning images of the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition were announced.
• An exhibition featuring portraits of Arlington volunteers captured by Mac Cosgrove-Davies using tintype photography opens at Central Library with a reception on April 4 from 5:30-7:00 p.m.
• The regional winners of the 2023 World Press Photo awards have been announced.
• Call to Earth, a CNN editorial series about the environmental challenges facing our planet, explores 10 photographs that made the world wake up to climate change.
• Fujifilm is halting production of a range of color negative 35mm film as well as reversal film in both 35mm and 120 formats due to a shortage of raw materials.
• Last week, a geomagnetic storm spawned brilliant northern lights as far south as Virginia, North Carolina, and Arizona.
• See inside NFT sensation Justin Aversano’s mystical tarot-inspired photography show.
• “Variety Show – A Photo Ensemble” closes at Gallery B with a reception Sunday from 3:00-5:00 p.m.

• Squirrel Week is back! Amateur photographers are invited to share their best squirrel photo with the Washington Post by April 3.
• Photography collector and dealer Anna Walker Skillman shares how raising a family has informed her collection and how it reflects her personal values.
• Winners of the 12th annual Mobile Photography Awards show how far phone cameras have come over the years and what great shots can be captured by them.
• Head to Lost Origins Gallery Sunday at 3 p.m. for a presentation and artist roundtable with Farrah Skeiky, Jason Hamacher, and Jeffrey Everett about making art in relationship to music.
• The paradoxical work of acclaimed fashion photographer Rodney Smith will appear in a new book by Getty Publications, including many images that haven’t yet been seen.
• Join PortraitMeetDC at Stanton Park for a cherry blossom themed meet tomorrow from 2-5 p.m.
• Leica Store DC is hosting an exhibition reception for Devin Allen’s “No Justice, No Peace” on Thursday, March 30 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
• Since 1995, Ai Weiwei has photographed bastions of power with his raised middle finger in the foreground. Now he and Avant Arte have collaborated to make his emblematic finger available to all through Google maps and beyond.
• DPReview, one of the oldest and most respected photography publications on the web, is ceasing operations in less than a month as part of Amazon’s latest slate of layoffs.