It’s been a while since we’ve had a virtual roundtable, and we’d love to see and hear what you all have been up to lately. Join us next Friday, March 12 at 6 p.m. for a session focused on finding inspiration. You can share an image and whatever inspired you in creating it–a famous photograph, painting, life experience, etc. If you’d like to take part, please register here to get all the details including how to upload your image!

• The Leica Women Foto Project will feature photographers from around the world, highlighting their unique perspectives and experiences within photography.
• A photographer puts Polaroid images through a ritualistic “disinfecting” process using water, sanitizer, soap, bleach, Dettol, and other household cleaners to metaphorically reveal the unseen virus in her pictures.
• The ten-day Medium Festival of Photography kicks off this week with online workshops, seminars, portfolio reviews, lectures, virtual studio tours, and keynotes from notable working photographers.
• Here are five things that Digital Camera World is looking forward to for this weekend’s Photography Show Spring Shoots virtual event.
• Russian photographer Daniel Kordan captures the glow of flickering fireflies at they populate a dense bamboo forest in Japan.
• She Explores and Columbia Sportswear will be chatting with photojournalist Lynsey Addario on Instagram Live this Monday at noon.
• Atlanta photographers Regis and Kahran Bethencourt make kids’ wildest dreams come true in portrait sessions inspired by their imagination.
• This month, the AU Photo Collective is presenting a series of three Zoom talks featuring 4 photographers on Wednesdays at 8 p.m., starting on March 10 with Nate Larson, a contemporary artist working with photographic media, artist books, and digital video.
• Wu-Tang Clan announced their new photobook “Wu-Tang Clan: Legacy,” which will be strictly limited to 36 copies, each of which will be encased in its very own bronze-encrusted steel chamber.

• “Dig Us,” a virtual exhibition, explores the iconic image of Louis Armstrong and the Great Sphinx of Giza and details of the trip itself.
• Critical Exposure will be reviving their Freedom Fridays starting February 26. DC young people aged 13-24 can drop in monthly on Friday afternoons into CE virtual space for roundtable discussions and to engage with an organizer, activist, and/or photographer working to create positive change in their community.
• From raucous drag nights to hip-hop battles in boxing gyms, Joseph M Giordano’s photographs from the last 25 years capture Baltimore’s vibrant nightlife in a book that the artist thinks “is a document of a time that I think is gone forever.”
• “Working Together” is an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the formative years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963.
• Photographers Roy Sewall and Joel Hoffman lead an online workshop on how to conduct a street photography survey tomorrow at 2 p.m., $20-30.
• Tune into the DC History Center’s Instagram account on Thursday, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a live chat with the DC Street Photography Collective.
• Today at 1 p.m., curators, collections managers, and other experts from Dumbarton House, Georgetown University, and Tudor Place Historic House & Garden will explore Georgetown’s Black history and share tips and techniques for preserving your own family photographs, documents, and more.
• The Museum of Modern Art received a donation of 100 photographs that it hopes will aid in canonizing under-recognized female artists.
• Pro surfer Daniel Fuller has released a collection of his seascape photography in a new Rizzoli book “Liquid Horizon: Meditations on the Surf and Sea.”

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our annual photography contest! This past year or so has been like none other and is sure to make for a unique show. We look forward to seeing how you documented everything that transpired as well as captured your own personal experience through photography. We’ll be announcing the winners of this year’s contest next week and hope you’ll join us for a virtual happy hour on Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 6 p.m. as we mark 15 years of celebrating local photography! 

• Gemina Garland-Lewis shares how she learned to love bird photography, thanks to a “competitive collaboration.” 
• Leica asserts that the world needs witnesses in their first global brand ad campaign in 10 years. The video features images from photographers all around the world, including Exposed alum Chris Suspect.
• ARTnews shares a list of books on photography to inspire, inform, and entertain.
• Exposed alum Michael Ryan spent over two years walking and biking in every neighborhood of D.C. to document the murals of the city. He compiled the results into a print, with each mural in the quadrant where it is located, which is available for purchase in various formats. All of the proceeds are donated to Artolution, a nonprofit that works with children displaced by conflicts around the world to create murals in the refugee camps and cities in which they live.
• Cornell Watson was laid off from his day job in human resources midway through 2020 and is now a full time photographer shooting for publications like The New York Times and Washington Post and pursuing personal projects with grant funding.
• Charles McQuillan’s panoramic photographs show Belfast in lockdown, as Northern Ireland’s coronavirus lockdown is to be extended to March 5.
• A forgotten pinhole camera made from a beer can captured what is thought to be the longest exposure ever made–eight years and one month.
• Focus on the Story extended the deadline for entries for their new book, “Transition: The End of an UnPresidented Four Years” to this Sunday night at 11:59 p.m.

It’s the last weekend before our 2021 photography contest closes. Be sure to submit your best images of the D.C. metro area by Wednesday, January 27 at 11:59 p.m.! We look forward to reviewing all of the submissions and announcing the winners in early February.

• Winning images from the Life in Another Light photo contest explore how things look from a different perspective and how light can expand our imagination and creative potential. 
• Sign up for the Center for Photographic Art’s online artist talk with David Freese where he’ll discuss getting a photography book published on Friday, January 29–free for members and $10 for others. Note that times listed may be in a different time zone.
• Focus on the Story invites you to submit images that tell the story of the end of the Trump presidency and the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration for their book, “Transition: The End of an UnPresidented Four Years,” which is being funded through a Kickstarter campaign.
• Photojournalists documented the inauguration of Joe Biden on Wednesday as well as the related events around the city.
• Join Leica Store DC today at 4 p.m. on Zoom for Cameras, Coffee & Conversation with D.C. based freelance photojournalist, David Butow.
• Buffalo-based photographer Doug Levere takes viewers up close and personal with incredibly detailed shots of snowflakes.
• The 15th Annual Washington Gardener Magazine Photo Contest closes today at midnight. 
• Actor Jason Lee discusses his new photo book “In The Gold Dust Rush,” a collection of black and white images shot throughout the midwest from 2008-2020.
• Flickr announced the winners of “Your Best Shot 2020” earlier this week. Ten finalists were selected from over 18,000 submissions.