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Winning Photos of the 15th Annual Exposed DC Contest

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We’re excited to announce the winners of the 15th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest! These images, as seen together, tell the story of life in the Washington, D.C. metro area, as documented by the people who live, work, and love here. You can view the full list of winners below.

Stay tuned for details about the 2021 Exposed DC Photography Show and join us tonight at 6 p.m. on Zoom for a celebratory happy hour! Photographers, photography fans, and friends are all welcome. Please register here if you’ll be joining us.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to this year’s contest for sharing your work with us. If you recently discovered Exposed DC, we are glad you found us and hope to get to know you better as you become part of our community. Here’s how to get involved, including contributing images for features, virtual and in-person events, and being part of our other activities throughout the year. If you’re interested in getting even more involved, we’d love to chat with you about volunteering with us too!

Now, without further ado, we present to you the winning images of the 15th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest…

Mark Alan Andre – Washington Fog
Dylan Bilbao – Polychromatic
Ashley Brown – Quiet Kennedy
John Buckley – Hanging On
John Buckley – The Reflecting Pool
Christopher Chern – Ad Astra
Thomas Cluderay – Spark Dome
Thomas Cluderay – Amplify the Message!
Scott Cook – Fairy Godmother
Sue Dorfman – And Helicopters Flew
Joe Flood – Cupid’s Undie Run
Phillip Ford – The Walking Beat
Merone Hailemeskel – Stand Together
Robb Hill – Honoring Good Trouble
Matthew Howard – The State of Our Union
Philippa Hughes – We Made the Best of It
Miki Jourdan – Best Foot Forward
Kim Keller – Last Word
Kim Keller – Silver Spring Summer
Christy Knight – Reflections
Mike Landsman – Celebration
Geoff Livingston – BLM is Bigger than a Photo Opp
Jenny Markley – Building Strength
Jenny Markley – Reflection
Nicholas Moreland – Election Day 2020 At The Supreme Court
Victoria Pickering – Biden Wins
Satya Ponnaluri – Isolation in the Time of Covid
Eric Purcell – Rose Rosé Bears
Mukul Ranjan – Splash!
Michael Ryan – Protest
Christopher Smyth – Notorious RBG
John Sonderman – Sloppy Mama’s BBQ
Carol Stalun – Blossoms For Breakfast
Chris Suspect – Untitled
Arpita Upadhyaya – Each Substance of Grief Has Twenty Shadows
Kristian Whipple – Sebastian on Georgia Avenue

The 2021 Exposed DC Photography Show is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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Enter the 15th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest

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Our 2021 photography contest is officially open, and we announced our special judges who will be selecting the Best in Show awards!

As we enter into Exposed DC’s 15th year of celebrating local photography, we find ourselves reflecting on a very eventful year. While we always enjoy seeing our nation’s capital through the lens of the talented photographers who live, love, and work here, 2020 seems determined to be distinctive and memorable in its own way. We have no doubt that your photos will capture these tumultuous and notable times in poignant and profound ways as well as provide us with reminders of the beauty all around us.

If you’ve submitted to the contest before, you may notice a few changes this year. First, we are trying a different pricing model to allow more flexibility. This decision was made based upon feedback from photographers who have entered the contest in the past and streamlining the submission process. The entry cost will be $10 per image, and you may submit as many images as you’d like. Second, the contest timeline is shifted a little later than usual and will be open through January 27, 2021, to allow additional time to capture events leading up to and including the U.S. Presidential Inauguration.

The exhibition will be held in Spring or Summer 2021 with details yet to be announced. Special consideration is being given in the planning process to ensure the safety of the community as we continue to battle COVID-19, but we look forward to tackling these unique challenges during a global pandemic in order to celebrate local photography with you all in a safe and innovative way. Images may be part of a virtual exhibition and/or a safe, in-person event based on an assessment of the situation as it continues to develop.

Rules and guidelines for entering the contest and participating in our exhibit are covered in the submission page. If you’re looking for some inspiration, you can check out the winning images from previous years. Have questions or comments? Check out these FAQs, comment on this post, or reach out to us on social media. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter, if you don’t already, to get all our contest and exhibit updates. If you’d like to join our team as a volunteer, please drop us a line.

Please note that Picter strongly recommends using a recent version of either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to submit to the contest. If you’d like to change or edit your submission, you can contact Picter support to request a refund and then resubmit, up until the contest deadline. We recommend you save all your submissions as drafts until you’ve reviewed them all and are ready to submit. Refunds will not be granted after the contest deadline.

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Friday Links: October 2, 2020

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Resilience by Miki Jourdan

We are excited to announce the opening of the “rise up.” photography exhibit that highlights D.C. photographers and their images created during the social justice uprising of 2020. The exhibit opens today at Dupont Underground and will run through October with gallery hours Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. There will be a virtual gallery available as well. Exposed DC is proud to partner with Dupont Underground and Shedrick Pelt on this important exhibition.

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Black Lives Matter, and Doing No Harm in Documenting Protests

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Photo by El Dubbey

As a community of photographers based in our nation’s capital, we are no strangers to protests. Washington, D.C. is the center of U.S. politics and a natural place for people from all walks of life and all sorts of backgrounds to gather together around a cause. During this pivotal and painful time for so many Americans, we want to express our support for the Black community and our solidarity in the fight for justice and to be free from police violence, not just in D.C. but around the entire country and beyond.

As a nonprofit for photographers of all levels, we also want to remind those in our community who are participating in or documenting the protests to consider how you do so with the greater good in mind. To this end, we’d like to share some valuable documents provided by the Authority Collective. For photographers documenting the protests, we encourage you to review the Do No Harm: Photographing Police Brutality Protests guidance. We also encourage everyone to check out these resources for photographers and beyond on anti-racism.

#BlackLivesMatter

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Enter the 11th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest!

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UPDATE:

We’re extending the deadline for our photo contest to January 25!

It occurred to us a little late that two important events are happening immediately after our regular contest deadline: The Presidential Inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington, not to mention the chaos that will engulf the metro area throughout the weekend. We’d like to include images from these events in our annual show in March, so you now have until midnight, January 25 to enter our contest.

If you’ve already entered: Don’t worry. You can exchange photos in the sets you’ve submitted. Or better yet, increase your chances of winning by entering a whole new set. Just do it by the 25th!

ANOTHER UPDATE: We’ll announce the details very soon, but we’re just finalizing a deal to print and frame the winning photos at no cost to the winners this year! Stay tuned…

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Enter the 11th Annual Exposed DC Photo Contest!

Our 2017 photo contest is open for entries! Next March we’ll host the 11th annual Exposed DC Photography Show, our celebration of living in the Washington, D.C. area. We want to see your images of the people and places, the art and music and food and sports, and the culture and nostalgia of this incredible town we live in. The District is too often reduced to a tourist destination or a political mud-pit – but those who live, work, and love here can rise above. The Exposed DC exhibit shows our city as only we know it.

The contest is geared towards photographers who don’t usually exhibit their work, but it is open to all – send in your terrific iPhone shot, or your sharp Leica photo. If you simply love taking pictures, this is your contest. You can submit your work until January 11, 2017, so if you don’t think you have the perfect shot just yet, you have plenty of time to go out and get it! Need inspiration? Check out the winners from our 10th anniversary exhibit.

Tonight, December 7, we’ll be upstairs at 801 Restaurant & Bar, 801 Florida Ave NW, to kick off the contest. Join us from 6 to 8 p.m. and meet the Exposed DC team, previous years’ winners, and all your fellow photography lovers.

Rules and guidelines for entering the contest and participating in our exhibit are covered in the submission page. Have questions or comments? Drop them in the comments on this post, or ask us tonight at 801, and subscribe to our newsletter for all our contest and exhibit updates. If you’d like to volunteer for our team, please drop us a line.

See you all tonight!

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