Lots of events coming up, including next week's PhotoPlus Expo. I'll be running that down later in the week, but here are some events that are nipping at our heels, so check them out.

TUESDAY October 13 (tomorrow!)
Young Photographers Alliance Inaugural Award Ceremony
Metropolitan Pavilion
110 W. 19th St.
7 - 10pm
More info here. YPA is an organization devoted to helping young photographers connect to the inspiration, resources and contacts they need to build successful careers.
The event will feature hors d’oeuvres, drinks and live jazz. There will be a silent auction of original signed prints by YPA scholarship recipients and famous photographers as well. The award ceremony will be emceed by masters of the craft — Mary Ellen Mark, Fred Conrad, Mark Seliger — and by PDN publisher Lauren Wendle and Worldstudio’s Mark Randall.

WEDNESDAY October 14
W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Ceremony
The awards ceremony honors the 30th annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, and The Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism
The grant enables photojournalists to undertake and complete worthy photojournalistic projects. Come view some great photography
Asia Society
725 Park Ave @ 70th St.
Seating is first come, first served and doors open at 6pm.

THURSDAY October 15
Gallery Night on 57th
Sixty-four galleries on 57th Street between Lexington Ave. and 7th Ave. will remain open 5:00 - 8:00pm for this special event. So check out Nicholas Nixon at Pace/McGill, Jacques Henri Lartigue at Howard Greenberg, Brassai at Edwynn Houk and so much more.
Get more info here

SUNDAY October 18
Join En Foco and the Lucie Foundation for a FREE artist talk featuring Mustafah Abdulaziz, Sue Flood, Rachel Papo and Rania Matar.
Splashlight Soho
One Hudson Square
5:30 - 7:00pm
Mandatory RSVP here
The after-party if free for En Foco and Lucie members, and $10 for non-members.

TUESDAY October 20
Lost & Found: A Practical Look at Orphan Work
How should the law treat “orphan works”? Please join us as we discuss proposals that would enable copyrighted works to be used when their owners cannot be located to obtain necessary permissions. Panelists include Eugene H. Mopsik, ASMP's Executive Director.
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
42 W. 42nd St.
212-382-6600

Windows, photographs by Ted Kawalerski
Calumet
22 W. 22nd St.
6:00 - 9:00pm

THURSDAY October 22
UNSEEN: A Photographers Salon
Unseen is an introduction to some of New York’s most promising, hard working, and creative minds in the photography field whose bold ideas, themes, and techniques work to transcend the history of photographic art. Included are Phil Toledano, Adam Krause, Elizabeth Fleming, Cara Phillips, Richard Renaldi, Ryan Pfluger, Clayton Cotterell and several others.
For more information
Randall Scott Gallery
111 Front Street
6:30 - 9:30 pm