As I'm off to Washington DC and New York in three weeks' time for a ten-day trip, here's a quick rundown on photography exhibitions in November:

New York's International Center of Photography is exhibiting Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, which explores "the different roles that photography now plays in negotiating the boundaries between trust and fear, intimacy and isolation, and public and private life." Until 30 November.

The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839–1855 is on at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 175 of these one-of-a-kind images on silver-plated sheets of copper are on show. Until 4 January.

The Whitney celebrates 100 years since the birth of American photography great, Aaron Siskind. Until 1 February.

DC's Corcoran Gallery is showing Both Sides of the Street, where works by significant 20th century photographers are hung alongside emerging contemporary artists. Until April 2004.

A retrospective of the work of photojournalist, Diana Walker, is on at the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian. Until 4 January.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC is exhibiting Passionate Observer: Photographs by Eudora Welty, who worked as a photographer for Life magazine, documenting the Depression in the 1930s in the rural areas of Mississippi and Louisiana. Until 29 February.