• Learn about cyanotype prints and make your own at IA&A at Hillyer tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., $15-20. 
• Historians discovered one of the marines in the iconic Iwo Jima photo had been misidentified for over 70 years.
• Jeff Bridges shares personal photos taken with a Widelux camera on film sets in his new book that came out this week.
• Photographer and creative photo retoucher Jim Lind incorporates his pet cats into photos for his “Family Vacation” series. 
• Falls Church Arts issued a call for artists for a fine art photography show to be held in their gallery in January 2020. The deadline for entries is Nov. 17.
• Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced this week.
• The DC Street Photography Collective will be hosting an event on November 20 at Slash Run with a presentation by NYC street photographer Reuben Radding and a critique. Tickets are $10.
• Three photographers received awards as part of the Leica Women Foto Project to support personal projects relevant to today’s social and political climate.

• An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art focuses on the first 50 years of photography.
• Early bird pricing ends today for Momenta Workshops’ one-day financing bootcamp and marketing for photographers workshops slated for November 15 and 16, respectively.
• “Women: A Photography Exhibition” opens at the National Geographic Museum on October 22.
• The WNBA and Red Hook Labs paired five female photography students of color from Brooklyn with athletes for their latest campaign.
• Researchers have developed a lens that is a thousand times thinner than regular lenses.
• Reuben Wu captures remote landscapes illuminated by geometric drone flight paths.
• Computational photography is being used in newer mobile phones to improve pictures you can take with your phone.

Join us tonight for an opening reception to celebrate our latest exhibition in the Crystal City Fotowalk that features images from all over the United States taken by 64 local photographers. Some of the Exposed DC team and featured photographers will be there, so swing on by to say hello! 

• After the Fotowalk opening, head to Lost Origins Gallery for the opening of Robin Bell’s “Refractions,” 7-10 p.m.
• Join Exposed alum Geoff Livingston for a street art and mural photography class offered through Capital Photography Center this Sunday, 8-11 a.m., $99.
• A commercial photographer shares his experience with “piggyback” shoots, where clients have both video productions and still photography projects occur simultaneously.
• Thomas Joshua Cooper travels to the world’s most remote places to make a single photograph for his project “The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity,” encountering all sorts of life-threatening conditions along the way.
• Jessica Lange talks about her passion for being on the other side of the lens with a new book and gallery show on the horizon.
• Jennifer Adler shares how she uses her background in science to raise environmental awareness through her photography, with some great insight for all photographers.
• Check out this round-up of photography grants and awards from various organizations.

Join us for our next happy hour at Bar Deco on Wednesday from 6-8 p.m., which will be a collaboration with Focus on the Story! We thought it’d be neat to feature various local photography organizations and groups during our monthly happy hours and will be kicking that off next week. Hope to see you there! 

• Head to Big Bear Cafe for Stop Motion Vol 7 on Tuesday, 7-9 p.m. to catch the street photography themed slideshow and pick up some zines.
• A look at auction data from the past five and a half years shows some interesting trends for photographic works, including photography prices being the most affordable in a long time. 
• Profoto announced its lineup of compact studio lights…for mobile photography, specifically iPhone 7 or later.
• The 12th annual Downtown Hyattsville Arts Festival: Arts & Ales is tomorrow, 12-6 p.m. Support local photographers and other artists while sipping on some local brews.
• Photographer and filmmaker Frederick Paxton plans to take a look at complex systems of government and geopolitics through the lens of sports.
• Would you like to see photos of a squirrel holding and smelling a flower? Of course you would.

• Don’t forget to submit your U.S. road trip photos by midnight tomorrow for a chance to be part of our Fall 2019 Crystal City Fotowalk exhibit!
• Earlier this week, Focus on the Story announced the plan for 2020; get ready for another month-long celebration of photography in D.C.
• “Live Dangerously,” an exhibit featuring 12 photographers who explore the ways female bodies inhabit and activate the natural world, opens at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on Thursday.
• Legendary photographer Robert Frank died this week at the age of 94.
• Join Nubian Hueman for an artist talk featuring the curator and photographers of the Photo Noir exhibition on Thursday, 6 p.m.
• Apple announced the latest iPhone earlier this week, with Pro and Pro Max models that have three cameras, each with 12-megapixel resolution and different focal lengths.
• Mayor Muriel Bowser apparently locked the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities out of the city’s art vault last week in an attempt to seize it, in an ongoing drama between the two offices over control of the arts budget.
• The Washington Post Express, the free commuter paper, shut down this week. Long live The Express.