• Head to Mason Exhibitions tonight from 5:00-8:00 p.m. for the opening of “A Closer Look: Conflicted Art from Ukraine” featuring artistic responses to war through the works of 13 contemporary Ukrainian artists from the frontline, including photographer Andriy Dubchak.
• Join Multiple Exposures Gallery this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. for the June 2024 Photo Critique. Bring a printed image or collection of images and receive helpful, supportive suggestions from fine art photographers Alan Sislen and Maureen Minehan.
• Take your photography to the next level with external flash! Join Capital Photography Center (CPC) instructor Corey Hilz on June 2 and learn the modes and functions of your flash, as well as how aperture, shutter speed, and ISO affect your flash photos.
• You might also want to try your hand at the CPC Street Photography class on June 9. Learn pro-level tips, privacy issues, and plenty of hands on guidance photographing around the White House area.
• The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) published an open letter in response to Adobe’s advertising campaign that encourages people to “skip the photoshoot.”
• Join Photoworks for the opening reception of “Good Sports,” juried by John McDonnell this Sunday from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
• Touchstone Gallery seeks artwork that embraces pattern and repetition as the focal point, a complementary element within a piece, or as a fundamental part of the creative process for their “Iteration Reiteration” open call. The entry fee is $35, and applications are due by June 11.
• In response to unruly tourists, the town of Fujikawaguchiko erected a barrier to obstruct a popular view of Mount Fuji in Japan, but tourists are poking holes in it to get their shots anyway.

• The 2024 first-place ZEKE Award winners, Sarah Fretwell and Natalya Saprunova, will have a live presentation also broadcast on Zoom this Monday at 7:30 p.m.
• Last weekend, an extreme solar storm brought spectacular northern lights to regions across the world. Some even caught a glimpse of them in D.C. during a short window just before dawn on Saturday.
• The MId-Atlantic Photo Visions’ student competition is open to any high school or rising 9th-grade student from the DMV area with a grand prize of $500 and $100 for nine other finalists. The deadline for entires is May 28.
• Join PortraitMeetDC tomorrow in Georgetown for a city cruise themed meet from 4:00-7:00 p.m.
• StreetMeetDC will also be out tomorrow starting at 5:00 p.m. at the NoMa metro station. They’ll also be partnering with StreetMeetMD on their first special event happening at Brookside Gardens on June 1 and 2; you can reserve your spot now on their website.
• HEMPHILL is hosting a book signing with photographer, Janet Fries, on May 21. Email the gallery to RSVP.
• Google Research and scientists at Harvard University have created groundbreaking new digital images, models, and 3D maps illustrating the physical structure of the brain.
• The Bill Thomas Historic Preservation Photo Collection depicts neighborhoods, roads and highways, shopping centers, various buildings, parks, and playgrounds across Arlington County from the 1920s through the 1980s.
• The 148th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show took place in New York City over the past week, showcasing more than 3,000 dogs of 200 different breeds and varieties. They’re good dogs, Brent.

Thanks to everyone who came by last Sunday for our cyanotype event and thanks to Photoworks and Mac Cosgrove-Davies for a fun and informative experience! It was so fun to see you and your cyanotype creations. We’ll be having some more events like this in the near future, so if you missed it stay tuned for another opportunity. If you have ideas for other events you’d like to see as well, let us know!

• Head to Lost Origins Gallery tomorrow night for the opening reception for “Truly Blessed,” an exhibition of 28 photographs from Chris Suspect’s new book that documents a marginalized community’s response to racial and religious discrimination.
• The deadline for Glen Echo Photoworks’ juried call for entries for “Good Sports” is Monday, May 6. The entry fee is $40 for five images.
• Enter Dodge Chrome’s Spring 2024 Photo Contest by May 31. You can submit up to 3 entries per category: Colors of Spring, Dark and Light, and Pattern & Texture.
• WeTransfer has put together New Rules, a series from WePresent that interrogates how to thrive as an artist in unstable creative industries that are changing, starting with photography.
• An exhibition opens Monday in the library at the National Gallery of Art that brings together a team of book and print artists to create handcrafted book objects that combine real photographic prints with finely printed texts and artisan bindings that highlight trends in contemporary photography.
• Black Women Photographers and Format announced the winner of their Portfolio Giveaway & Grant, along with five runners-up.
• Maureen Minehan’s solo exhibition, THERE AND BACK, explores the beauty inherent in solitude in the terrain between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The exhibit is on view at Multiple Exposures Gallery from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily through May 19.

The DC History Conference runs through tomorrow. We’ll be at the History Network this afternoon in the lobby of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library from 1:15-3:15 p.m. Stop by to say hello, flip through old exhibition programs, chat about photography in D.C., and plans for the 2024 show and beyond. You can view the full schedule online.

• Exposed alum Chris Suspect’s new book, Truly Blessed, tells the story about a community’s response to discrimination, both racial and religious. The book is available for purchase at $50.
• Photographer Daniel Cox is exposing the impacts of climate change in his Arctic Documentary Project that features polar bears prominently. 
• Join PortraitMeetDC at metrobar on April 14 from 2-5 p.m. for  a new kind of meet.
• Save the date for a hands-on cyanotype event at Photoworks with Mac Cosgrove-Davies, an instructor at Photoworks and featured photographer in our 2024 show!
• On April 13 at Photoworks, Francesca Scott delves into the history of the iconic Scurlock Photographic Studio and their legacy of documenting Black life over the span of nine decades. The event is free, and you can reserve a spot today.
• NASA pulled together five tips for photographing a total solar eclipse as people prepare for Monday. Just using your cellphone to document it? There are tips for that, too!
• The Guardian highlights a selection of photographs from the 24 winning projects and six honorable mentions in the World Press Photo annual competition. Four global winners will be announced later this month.