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The snow has had its last hurrah (right?), the sun is out, and the forecast for Thursday’s Exposed DC Photography Show opening is sunny and mild! So get your tickets now and get ready to enjoy your free Bluejacket beer in the courtyard at 1358 NE! After you’ve done that, treat yourself to this week’s pile of links:

Suspect Device opens tonight at Leica Store DC. We’re pretty excited about it after getting a sneak peak at the show’s video earlier this week.
Hamiltonian is extending its call for artists for its fellowship program to March 14.
Four Chicago Sun-Times photographers were among 15 staffers who took buyouts last Friday. They had been rehired in March this year after being laid off in 2013 along with the rest of the Sun-Times photography department.
World Press Photo announced that, based on new evidence, they’ve revoked a controversial First Place award.
We’ve been forced to endure our share of slush around here lately, but these photos of “Slurpee waves” off Nantucket are beautiful.
“Mediocre forces good out of the market place and great all but disappears” – Kenneth Jarecke opines on the demise of photojournalism as art.
Ukrainian photojournalist Serhiy Nikolayev was killed in shelling in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. His newspaper says he wasn’t there on assignment.
Peter Lik’s artistic merits may be debatable, but the supercilious photographer – who claims to have sold the world’s most expensive photograph last year – has built a terrifyingly successful market for his work.
A weasel catches a ride on the back of woodpecker and a photographer catches it. No, really.
An octopus has figured out how to work a camera. We advise sheltering in place during the great cephalopod uprising.
The final episode of Invisible Photograph video series explains how particle physicists are using photography at the Large Hadron Collider.
Smithsonian Magazine just announced the finalists of its 12th annual photo contest. Readers can vote for their favorite
Meanwhile Smithsonian tells visitors they’re still welcome to take selfies but “leave the sticks in your bags“.
Chilean volcano Villarrica erupted beautifully on Tuesday.
Serious Eats has put together an excellent beginners guide to food photography.
The Financial Times writes at length on “Why photobooks are booming in digital age“.
Along the tiger’s trail: where are the cats found and why? Field surveys are performed on foot for months across vast areas of India. New word alert: pugmark!

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Come to the closing reception for our InstantDC Fall Review at BloomBars in Columbia Heights this Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. Buy any of these amazing framed images by local photographers for just $150 as a gift for your favorite art lover, or just yourself. Need more ideas for the photographer in your life? Consult our Exposed DC holiday gift guide. And remember to get your photographs of the D.C. area into our 9th annual photo contest before January 7!

We start off this week with very sad news, “Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them, died [from an apparent heart attack] Dec. 11 while on assignment for The Post in Liberia. He was 58.” The Post also has a piece about his long career, and the Guardian has a selection of some of his best images.
Photojournalist Luke Somers was killed this week by al-Quada militants in Yemen after a failed rescue attempt by U.S. special forces. Some of Somers work can be seen on the Corbis website.
One of the most talked about stories this week is the sale of the $6.5 million photography by Peter Lik. But don’t worry, two Guardian columnists are debating if photography is actually art. Yawn.
Time Magazine highlights the most popular Department of the Interior Instagram shots from 2014.
When soldiers come home from war: “For many, reintegration is coming to terms with those two halves: the veteran and the civilian made anew.” Photos by Devin Mitchell.
Photographer Georgine Benvenuto lost the tip of his nose to a drone inside a TGI Fridays.
See the ArtDC show Density open tomorrow night in Hyattsville, and Frank Hallum Day’s show at Addison/Ripley Fine Art tonight.
So you’d think Baltimore police would have learned from their very public mistakes in depriving photographers (and videographers) of their constitutional rights. Well you’d be very wrong.
Vice interviewed Jim Saah about his work covering the early D.C. hardcore music scene.
The AP has announced the summer paid internships, including those for photographers.
Editors at PDN, Rangefider, and Emerging Photographer selected the work of eleven photographers they believe are rising in the industry.
Victoria Sambunaris has spent more than 15 years taking solo road trips across the United States. Armed with her 5-by-7 wooden field camera, she captures the American landscape in an attempt to understand the world and our place in it.
It may not be legal, but many pilots are taking photos in the air and posting them to Instagram.
The City Paper explores which pieces of art D.C. galleries brought to two Miami Art Fairs, and it includes plenty of photography.
Magnum Photos photographer René Burri died in October. This is a short documentary in which he discusses six of his most iconic images.
“Legendary photographer Danny Lyon’s photographs of commuters in the ’60s are on view for the first time at a Brooklyn subway station.”
And finally, Phevos the tiger is leaving neglectful conditions in Greece for a better life in California.

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