NEW! Photography and The Smithsonian Blog
A new blog produced by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, THE BIGGER PICTURE, presents an inside look at the Smithsonian’s photographic collections and invites audiences to engage in an online discussion about photography’s powerful impact on our world.
The Smithsonian Joins the Flickr Commons
The Smithsonian is happy to join the Flickr community. With an initial posting of over 800 photographs, we look forward to your tags, comments, and general participation in this new venture. Please visit often as more photos will be added on a regular basis. Take a short survey and tell us how we’re doing."
Visit The Smithsonian on Flickr!
2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Documentation Project: CLOSED!
The Smithsonian Photography Initiative and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage wishes to thank all the visitors to the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival who submitted their wonderful photos.
View the Festival Flickr Group
View a slideshow of the "Best of the 2008 Festival"
To celebrate this year's documentation project, learn from Smithsonian photographers who discuss what it's like to capture the Festival each year.
View the documentary or View the transcript
View slideshow of post-Katrina Louisiana by SI photographer, Hugh Talman
