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Friday Links: March 29, 2024

March 29, 2024 By Matthew Holubecki

Join StreetMeet tomorrow at 3pm on U Street (10th Street Metro exit) as they celebrate nine years of StreetMeet.
Dodge Chrome is having a spring photo contest. Submit up to three entries per category (Colors of Spring, Dark and Light, Pattern & Texture) by emailing contest@dodgechrome.com by May 31. All winners will receive a large mounted print of their work with some cash prizes for 1st and 2nd.
India celebrates Holi, the Hindu festival of color, marking the reawakening of spring with awesome photos from the AP Photo team.
Meroë Marston Morse joined Polaroid just weeks after graduating with a degree in art history and was integral in transforming the camera company into a brand beloved by photographers to this day.
See “Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell” at the National Portrait Gallery. If you go on April 14, there’s a curator tour.
The winning images and photographers of this year’s World Nature Photography Awards have been announced.
In his ongoing “Descendants” series, Drew Gardner combines research with photography as he recreates striking portraits of Black Civil War soldiers.
The Concrete in Life Photo of the Year competition puts concrete front and center and all around.

Friday Links: March 22, 2024

March 22, 2024 By exposeddc

Join PortraitMeetDC for their first meet of the season at Stanton Park tomorrow from 3-6 p.m. Scratch that! They’ll be going on Instagram Live tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. instead. Check their stories for more info.
Social Documentary Network is hosting an online presentation and discussion on documenting the struggle for reproductive rights in the US with Evelyn Hockstein, Robin Fader, and Edward Boches on Thursday, March 28 at 1:30 p.m. on Zoom.
A rocket launch was clearly visible across San Diego County skies on Monday night when SpaceX launched Falcon 9 right after sunset.
A Van Gogh oil painting has been unveiled as the centerpiece of an exhibition in Cardiff that poses the question: “Is a self-portrait the original selfie?”
Maryland PPA’s (MDPPA’s) annual photography conference will provide 3 days of peer connection and instruction in wedding, commercial, fine art, and senior portraiture, April 11-13 in Columbia, MD.
The winning images of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2024 exhibit the beauty, spectacle, and fragile balance of the isles’ diverse animals and habitats.
National Geographic’s new show, Photographer, doesn’t focus on analyzing images but on the drive it takes to find the ideal shot.
An exhibition in New York is bringing to life moments in theater from the 1950s through 1970s using a blend of art and technology.

Friday Links: March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024 By Matthew Holubecki

Join the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for a Women’s History Month Wikipedia edit-a-thon presented with support from Wikimedia DC on Tuesday from 2-5 p.m.
The 2024 Working Scientist photo competition is open for entries that showcase the work that scientists do all around the world. Note that professional photographers appear ineligible for this call.
Enjoy a thread of photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance.
The 2024 Leica Women Foto Project Awardees have been announced with projects that cover societal preconceptions, postpartum depression, surrealism, and contemporary indigenous women of different ages.
Miles Myerscough-Harris used a camera from 1897 to recreate a 100-year-old team photo of the AIK soccer club.
The USPS will pay tribute to photographer Ansel Adams with a stamp collection featuring 16 of his images.
The Annual DC History Conference returns for its 50th anniversary at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library April 4-6, free. We’ll be there for the History Network on Friday, April 5 from 1:15-3:15 p.m.

Friday Links: March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024 By Matthew Holubecki

Artomatic opens today at 2100 M Street NW, noon to 11:45 p.m. and runs through April 28. Check out all the events here.
Join senior lecturer David Gariff at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday at noon as he discusses the innovative work of ten women photographers.
Steve Simon, aka The Passionate Photographer, will give an honest evaluation of photographs submitted in an online session hosted by LaCie on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
The exhibit “New Perspective on the New Thing: A Photography Exhibition Documenting D.C.’s Revolutionary Community Arts Center, 1966-1972” at the Katzen Arts Center closes on March 17 and was reviewed in the Washington Post.
Ami Vitale is holding a contest for a female-identifying photographer to travel with her and Vital Impacts on a 22-day Polar Latitudes expedition to the Falkland Islands/Malvinas, South Georgia and Antarctica.
Ivan McClellan spent nearly a decade documenting the lives, wins, and losses of the Black rodeo community from Alabama to Los Angeles in his project, “Eight Seconds.”
Check out this monthly roundup of open calls, residencies, and grants for artists.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for happy hour last week and congratulations again to the winners of this year’s photo contest! We look forward to celebrating with everyone at the show this summer, as well as getting back to regular happy hours and other social gatherings. It’s always great spending time together with this amazing photography community.

Maryland PPA has announced their annual photography conference. Join them for three days of peer connection and instruction in wedding, commercial, fine art, and senior portraiture. Find out more about this April 11-13 event and register at https://marylandppa.com/24MDPPA.
Head to the National Gallery of Art tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. to hear photojournalism students reflect on Dorothea Lange’s work and career in light of their own photographic practices and research inquiries today.
Thirty finalists have been chosen for the Sony World Photography Awards 2024 with winners to be announced in April.
Vanity Fair photographer David Seidner is being honored with a proper one-man retrospective as part of the International Center for Photography’s 50th anniversary.
Critical Exposure is bringing back Stories for Action, a 10-week program for high school-aged youth interested in exploring social justice issues through photography. Sessions start March 5; submit the interest form.
Annie Leibovitz traveled to seven countries documenting different ideas of family for a project with IKEA. In addition to taking photographs, she also selected six photography mentees to guide in their own projects about home.
Photographers from around the world submitted roughly 6,500 photographs for 13 contest categories vying for the title of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.

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