The Annenberg Space for Photography has announced a range of programmes that will coincide with The Year, an exhibit featuring winning photos from the 67th annual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition. The exhibition itself opens its doors to the public on 26 June and runs until 10 August. The Annenberg Space for Photography will offer two digital feature presentations, weekly IRIS Nights lecture series and a slideshow night presenting special photography related to the themes in the exhibit. All programming is free to the public with advance online registration at the website below.

Website: Annenberg Space for Photography

A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom: Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan is the first exhibition of photographs by 19th century British government officer John Claude White. A pioneer of mountain photography, White was given the chance to live amongst some of the world’s most formidable mountains in 1888 when he was assigned to the Sikkim-Tibet Boundary Commission, tasked with mapping and surveying the regions’ borders. The cumbersome photographic equipment with which he traveled—including a large format camera and glass plate negatives—is a testament to his dedication to photography. In hist time, White’s images offered the world rare glimpses into these isolated Himalayan lands, illustrating his articles on Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal for National Geographic Magazine. A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom: Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan will be on view in the Rubin Museum of Art from 6 August 2010 to 10 January 2011. The museum is located at 150 West 17th Street, New York.

Canon UK has announced that its Pro Photo Solutions show will be returning again on 26th and 27th October 2010 at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Designed to be the largest and most comprehensive consumer focused exhibition of Canon’s imaging products, the show’s aim is to educate and inspire visitors and demonstrate to them how Canon’s technology can be used by professionals in their workflow to generate increased revenue and business. Entrance to the show will be free for all those who pre-register online.

Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) has just announced its second annual WPPI Road Trip. Taking the fun and excitement of its annual convention and trade show in Las Vegas, NV, and bringing it on the road to 10 major U.S. cities this coming August and September, the 2010 WPPI Road Trip features a full day of educational classes conducted by the hottest most sought-after speakers in professional photography today. The classes cover important topics such as Business and Marketing, Lighting, Posing, Wedding and Portrait photography, Photoshop and Postproduction workflows. The Road Trip will take place in the following 10 U.S. cities: Irvine, CA, Sacramento, CA, Seattle, WA, Dallas, TX, Washington, D.C., Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA, Orlando, FL, New Brunswick, NJ and Detroit, MI. If booked before 30 July, the early bird registration rate is $135 for a full day of education, lunch, and mini trade show. The Road Trip rate also includes free registration to WPPI 2011 in Las Vegas, NV. After July 30th, the registration price is $149.

Website: WPPI Road Trip

Annabel Williams Contemporary Training has launched a brand new intensive 4-day seminar designed to inspire wedding photographers. The first A to Z of Weddings seminar runs from 31st August to 3rd September at the purpose built Annabel Williams training studio in the stunning Lake District. The seminar, which is hosted by key trainers Catherine Connor, Jane Breakell and pro wedding photographer Stuart Cooper has lessons on topics such as marketing your business, pre wedding and wedding shoots and digital workflow, album design, sales and aftercare.

Website: Annabel Williams

One Day on Earth is a documentary and new media project about the “amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occurs in one 24-hour period on Earth”. On 10th October 2010, thousands of people from every nation around the world will film their perspective and contribute their voice to what the organisers describe as one of the largest participatory media events in history. The event will result in a 120-minute feature documentary and online video archive. The people behind the project have released a pretty amazing trailer that describes the idea in more detail - it’s certainly worth watching. To register for the event, follow the link below.

Website: Sign Up for One Day on Earth

Hundreds of members of the public are invited to participate in two revolutionary photographic commissions to create public art installations using Olympic finish line technology in London and Birmingham. In association with Rhubarb-Rhubarb, image maker Ádám Magyar will create two large-scale outdoor installations, working with Newham Council and Birmingham Cultural Partnership. A minimum of 300 local people will be needed to create each image. The camera used to create the installations records a scene one pixel at a time to capture movement. Using the same technologies as those used on the Olympic Finish Line, UK-based Hungarian photographer Ádám Magyar has built his own software to transpose the thousands of slices per second, captured by the camera, “to create stunning images which embrace time and space in a most intriguing way”. The Newham Walk for the Camera will be staged on Saturday 17 July at the Mayor’s Newham Show in East Ham, while the Birmingham Walk for the Camera will take place as part of the city’s participation in the London 2012 Open Weekend. To register, visit the website below.

Website: Walking As One

Nikon Australia is poised to launch Nikon School, a series of hands on classes that will guide students through the vital steps in the digital photography process. Sessions will be held at Melbourne’s Marriot Hotel, the Quay West Suites in Brisbane and the Sydney Harbour Marriot Hotel, and will be presented by some of Australia’s most talented and revered photographers. The series will begin with an Introduction to DSLR class on Saturday, 26th June. The course will cover everything from basic layout of the camera through to in-camera post production methods. From August 2010, additional classes will be added to the series alongside the Introduction course. These classes will cost $240 and are scheduled from 10am – 4pm on Saturdays.

Website: Nikon School

AOP Student has announced that the next Careers Talk will be held on Wednesday, 30th June. Hosted by aerial photographer Jason Hawkes, the talk will take place from 3pm to 5pm at the AOP Gallery, 81 Leonard Street, London. You do not need to book a place in advance, but make sure to be there early, as no one will be admitted after 3pm. Entry is free, and everyone is welcome to attend.

Website: AOP Student

Team Noton has announced a brand new Edinburgh venue for the ‘Chasing the Light’ Road Show. Tickets - priced at £15 - are now on sale for the event, which will take place on 28th September at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. The show includes David Nonon’s latest unpublished photographs, video clips from shoots around the world, the stories behind some of his most iconic images and of course, all delivered with David’s unique sense of humour:

Website: David Noton

Some of the most famous photographs published in LIFE magazine are to going on auction. The photographs are offered for sale in partnership with Lelands.com, where they can be viewed until the auction closing date of 9 July. Interested bidders must submit initial bids by 9 p.m. that day, after registering on the website. The auction continues until bidding has ceased for at least 10 minutes. Photos are shipped to auction winners immediately after funds have cleared.

HP will present an event called Think Big, bringing together large format printing specialists and featuring renowned photographer Robin Preston, on 22 June in London. Taking place in the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, the Think Big event comprises three sessions, with the first one starting at 10:30am. Interested readers can register for the event by calling Warren Burns on 0845 867 8108, or online via the website below.

Website: HP Think Big

The Big Issue in the North Trust is inviting photographers to take its Photo Marathon challenge on Saturday, 17 July. Photographers will have eight hours to take eight photographs, on two sets of four topics that are being kept secret until the day of the marathon. The Big Issue in the North Director Caroline Price said: “This is a really exciting and challenging project for keen photographers. As the topics are being kept secret until the day, the judging will not be based on physical environment or condition, but on improvisation, fun and creativity.” Each entrant is asked to make a donation of £15.

Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, on view 2 July 2010 through 13 February 2011, is a new exhibition to be held in the the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The first half of the exhibition shows how artists in 1960s and 1970s, working in the context of Minimal and Conceptual art, were drawn to photography for its differences from traditional art media. The second half features photographers from the 1980s to the present day including Rineke Dijkstra, Doug Aitken and Weng Fen. The exhibition will be on display in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography.

PMA, which has traditionally been held in the first quarter of the year, will take place on 8-10 September in 2011. “Based on input from key suppliers and trade groups, the PMA show is changing dates to better serve the photo industry,” says Ted Fox, executive director and CEO, PMA. “The proximity of early September dates makes PMA 2011 the ideal kickoff for the holiday selling season.” 2011 also marks the show’s return to Las Vegas from Anaheim, California, which gave home to the event this year.

Black & Blue is the title of an exhibition of Gianni Galassi’s architectural “photo visions”. The exhibition title is inspired by the wide black colour-fields created by the shadows – the true subject of the showcased photographs – and by the cut-outs of sky, in a highly saturated blue, marking the compositional voids. Curated by Laura Ginapri, the exhibition will take place in the recently renovated La Piscina space, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. It features 68 colour photographs in the 180x180 cm (70x70 inch), 120x120 cm (47x47 inch) and 60x60 cm (23x23 inch) sizes, along with 3 site specific installations. The exhibit will be on show from 26 August to 3 October 2010.

Red Bull Reporter and Dave TV have announced a special assignment giving aspiring photojournalists the chance to report on each regional heat of the Red Bull X-Fighters Jams Tour and the London Final at Battersea Power Station. Red Bull Reporter is a nationwide search to find the best young music, culture and sports writers, filmmakers, presenters and photographers, giving them the chance to use their skills and realise their passions as a Red Bull Reporter. This summer Red Bull X-Fighters Jams will stop in four cities across the UK, including Newcastle, Notthingham, Brighton and Leeds. The search is now on for 8 reporters, who will make up 4 separate teams - 2 with a photographer and writer, and 2 with a filmmaker and presenter. The selected applicants will be partnered up with another Red Bull Reporter to cover one of the regional stops of the Red Bull X-Fighters Jams tour in the UK.

Website: Red Bull X-Fighters Jams Tour Assignment Page

Tamron has just announced a full-day seminar series led by award-winning nature and landscape photographer Sandra Nykerk. The events will take place in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York on the 13th & 15th of July and the 10th & 12th of August respectively. Seminar topics include “Learning to See the Light”, “Using Lenses to Enhance your Creative Composition”, “Understanding the Histogram”, and many more. All events are scheduled for 9:00-4:30, and the cost for a full-day seminar is $59 per person. This includes a special welcome package, refreshments, raffle chances for prizes that include a lens, and a $25 bonus rebate with the purchase of select Tamron lens within two weeks of the event date at specified Tamron dealers. Advance registration required.

Website: Tamron Events

Award-winning photographer Marci Sandler is to lead “Creating Photographic Art,” a two-day photography workshop sponsored by Homeland Photographic Gallery, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. The workshop will teach participants to create high-quality, fantasy and exotic images. Workshop courses will be held on 19 and 20 July from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at Select Temp Staffing, and will include lunch. An optional half-day trip and location shoot is available to participants on 21 July. Photographers will have an opportunity to venture on a four-wheel drive trip to Tide Pools with Sandler where they will shoot with a model in an exotic tropical location and create images to further enhance their portfolios. The registration fee for the two-day workshop is $195. The optional trip to Tide Pools is an additional $125. or general information about the workshop and to register, visi the website below.

Website: Homeland Collections

A collection of 19th century photographic portraits of Russian Royalty goes under the hammer at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs sale on 8 June in London. Among the most notable items are two finely hand-coloured cabinet cards of Alexander II and his wife Maria Alexandrovna; a hand-coloured card of the future Alexander III as Tsarevitch; pictures of Alexander III and his wife Tsarina Maria Fedorovna who fled to Great Britain after the revolution and then settled in her native Denmark where she died in 1928; and a photograph of Alexander II lying in state. The sale begins at 2pm in Bonhams’ flagship saleroom on NEw Bond Street.