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Friday Links: April 14, 2023

April 14, 2023 By Matthew Holubecki

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.

Save the date! We’re excited to return to Lost Origins Outside for the 17th Annual Exposed DC Photography Show this summer. Mark your calendars to join us for the opening on Sunday, June 4! More details to come soon.

DC Home Rule 50 — a photography exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the District of Columbia Home Rule act by exploring the urgent themes of self-governance, full citizenship, free elections, and DC statehood — opens tonight at the DC History Center, 5:00-7:00 p.m., free.
Head to the East Building Auditorium at the National Gallery of Art tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. for a special program highlighting short films including “Perfect Image?” that exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores women’s own ideas of self-worth and “John Davies: Exploring a Sense of Place in the Landscape,” a portrait of the photographer and their process.
Photoworks is hosting a photo flea market on Saturday, April 22. You can sign up as a seller for a fee of $10 per table.
Join Mac Cosgrove-Davies at the Arlington Central Library tomorrow morning as he demonstrates how tintype portraits are made using the wet plate collodion process.
Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs announced the second season of the Creator Labs Photo Fund, an initiative to support image makers.
Polaroid’s limited edition Reclaimed Blue film was an “experimental fluke.”
The 2022 Architectural Photography Awards Photo of the Year shortlist has been released.
If you’ve been to the Tidal Basin to see the cherry blossoms or even just seen photos from others, chances are you’ve seen Stumpy, the struggling cherry tree that has gained quite a following over recent years.

Friday Links: March 31, 2023

March 31, 2023 By Matthew Holubecki

Cherry Blossoms Along the Tidal Basin – Diane Krauthamer

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.

Friday Links: March 24, 2023

March 24, 2023 By Matthew Holubecki

Night-time Rowers Along the Potomac River in Front of the Kennedy Center – Diane Krauthamer

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.

Friday Links: March 17, 2023

March 17, 2023 By exposeddc

Magnolia morning at Smithsonian Gardens by chasingmailboxes on Flickr

The top entries in the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition have been announced.
A Reddit user ran an experiment using an intentionally blurred image of the moon that Samsung’s processing enhanced rather…robustly, shall we say? Samsung responded that its technology uses a “detail improvement function.”
Since late 2015, Sean Scheidt has been organizing his “Time Spent” collection that documents his relatives to preserve memories and also helps him process grief.
Join StreetMeetDC at U Street Metro tomorrow at 3 p.m. as they return to the spot where it all started 8 years ago.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the rarely seen prelude to supernova.
Foxes came out on top in the British Wildlife Photography Awards.
Sony designed a camera kit for people with visual impairments. The viewfinder can project images directly onto a person’s retina.
Kin Coedel created an intimate series of photographs that document the lives of several nomadic communities in the Tibetan Plateau.
Pictures of the Year International has announced the winners of its 80th competition.