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Winning Photos of the 14th Annual Exposed DC Contest

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We’re excited to announce the winners of the 14th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest! These images, as seen together, tell the story of Washington, D.C., as documented by the people who live, work, and love here. You can view the full list of winners below.

Mark your calendars for February 19, when we’ll open our 14th annual exhibit! The exhibit will be hosted by Touchstone Gallery again, with support from the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts.

We are also happy to announce that the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has awarded Exposed DC (Ten Miles Square) a grant to support the 2020 Exposed DC Photography Exhibit!

Join us tonight at 801 Restaurant and Bar from 6-8 p.m. for our monthly happy hour! All are welcome. Our team will be there, so please stop by to say hello. We look forward to meeting our newly minted winners and seeing many familiar faces, too.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to this year’s contest for sharing your work with us. If you recently discovered Exposed DC, welcome! We hope you’ll stick around and become part of our community. Here’s how to get involved, including contributing images for features, coming out to happy hours, 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 14th annual Exposed DC Photography Contest…


Ather Ahsan – Blast Off
Alain L Gutiérrez Almeida – The Dome
Jon Bateman – Crossroad
Jeffrey Beggs – Solitude
Evelina Brooks – In Every Cell
John Buckley – To Oohs and Ahs
Miles Harrison Carter – Untitled
Eric Chang – Rooftop Buglers
Becky Davis – DC Pride Celebrations
Brett Davis – Dinosaurs
Matailong Du – The George Washington
Gina Falcone – DC Is A Water Town
Karon Flage – Kitty Reacts to Being Blessed
Thom Goertel – Santo
Brian Gray – Confetti
Merone Hailemeskel – Behind the Scenes: The Handmaid’s Tale in the District
Debra Hall – Through the Mountain
Michael Harrison – Eliana & Tomas
Miki Jourdan – Fierce
Miki Jourdan – Plank Like RBG
Mike Landsman – Wrestlin’
Geoff Livingston – Scoot Down the Highway
Jenny Markley – Recycling
Brian Mosley – A Red Day
Craig Nedrow – Fourth of July “Salute to America”
Diana Nguyen – Late Night Shift
Erika Nizborski – Fire Drill Friday
Victoria Pickering – Don’t Shoot
Danielle Press – Gold with Kayak
Mukul Ranjan – Untitled
Mukul Ranjan – Untitled
Diriki Rice – Ghost Truck
Daniel Scott Ruben – A Tribute to George H.W. Bush
Iñaki Sánchez – Beauty in the Ordinary
Jason Schlosberg – Midnight Chinatown Snow
Sofía Sebastián – Union Station
Max Siegler – You Can’t Beat the Bull
Anthony Smallwood – Hatchell at Shannon’s
Carol Stalun – Red Sky New Year
Carol Stalun – Snow Day
Jeff Wagoner – The River Pavilion
Jeff Wagoner – Fall at the Willard
Michael Zhang – Suburbia

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Announcing the Best in Show Judges for the 2020 Exposed DC Photography Show

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Have you entered our annual photography contest yet? We love to see this city of ours through your eyes, and we look forward to celebrating local photography at our 14th annual show with you all!  

Winners will have their photos printed and framed by Exposed DC for inclusion in our 2020 Annual Photography Show at Touchstone Gallery. In addition, we invited five distinguished D.C. photographers to serve as special judges. They will study all of the winning images, and each judge will choose one image to receive a Best in Show award, which comes with a $100 cash prize. 

This year’s special judges selecting the Best in Show awards are Angela Bain, Darrow Montgomery, Shedrick Pelt, Beverly Price, and Gerry Suchy. Will one of them select your photo? Only one way to find out. Submit your best images of the D.C. metro area by December 12, 2019!

Now, meet our special judges…

Angela Bain is a life-long local of the D.C. metro area who has been photographing people since 1995. A famous photo by Man Ray hanging in her high school photography class was the gateway drug into a love affair with this art form. She studied fine art photography at Towson University, and has worked in the areas of portrait, studio, fine art, commercial, editorial and wedding photography.

Darrow Montgomery began photographing for Washington City Paper in 1986 while still attending the Corcoran School of Art. He has worked for numerous publications as a freelancer covering such subjects as HIV/AIDS in Thailand and the rise, fall, and rise again of Marion Barry. The vast majority of his work has focused on the lives and people that call Washington, D.C. home.

Shedrick Pelt is an editorial, live-event, and commercial photographer with a style driven by an urge to be the fly on the wall, capturing an experience without disrupting the nature of the moment. Based in D.C., Shedrick works worldwide while keeping strong ties to his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, and his adopted home of NYC. View more info at www.sdotpdotmedia.com.

Beverly Ailisha Price was introduced to photography in 2016 when she first began what she believed to be a casual detailing of the people and atmospheres she would visually encounter on an everyday basis. As someone born and raised in the Capitol Hill region of the District of Columbia and passionate about her community, photography quickly developed into Price’s method of preserving the culture and communicating the stories of her often forgotten and disenfranchised commonality. View more info at www.beverlypricephoto.com.

Gerry Suchy finds his street photography these days is influenced by his previous career as a Clinical Social Worker. His photos are informed by the belief that storytelling matters more than hashtags and likes. More about Gerry and his work can be found at gmsdesignsphoto.com.

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Enter the 14th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest

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Our 2020 photo contest is officially open for entries! Gather your best images showcasing life in the Washington, D.C. metro area and submit them by December 14 at 5 p.m. for a chance to be part of our 14th Annual Exposed DC Photography Show. That’s right; we extended the deadline a little bit to give you some extra time to submit!

Every year we enjoy seeing this city of ours come alive through your images of its people, places, art, music, sports, and everything in between. We can’t wait to celebrate another year of awesome local photography. Join us tonight at The Crown & Crow from 6-8 p.m. to kick off the contest at our monthly happy hour! A bonus for joining us: we’ll also be giving away two passes to the World Press Photo Exhibit opening at happy hour.

Rules and guidelines for entering the contest and participating in our exhibit are covered in the submission page. Please note that each submission costs $25 and includes up to four images, which you will add in the “Upload” step of the submission process. Please only select “Add another project” if you are entering more than one batch of photos to the contest.

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 chat with us at tonight’s happy hour. 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. Each submission consists of a project which can have up to four images that are added in the upload step.

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The 2019 Exposed DC Photography Show Opens February 13

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Exposed DC Photography Show – 13th Annual Exhibition
 – Tickets for the opening reception on sale now!
– Featuring 43 images of the Washington metro area
– Opening reception: Wednesday, February 13 from 6 to 10 p.m.
– Exhibit hosted by Touchstone Gallery, 901 New York Avenue NW
– Exhibition magazine available for purchase, featuring all the winners
– Best in Show awards chosen by a panel of distinguished local photographers
– Advance tickets: $20. Door tickets: $25
– Discount for federal employees + contractors impacted by the shutdown
– #exposeddc

Exposed DC is excited to announce its 13th annual Exposed DC Photography Show, February 13 through February 24, 2019. The exhibit will be hosted by Touchstone Gallery, with support from the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts.

These 43 winning photographs were chosen from a contest for their unique view of the Washington area as more than just a tourist destination and political arena. They showcase and celebrate the experience of the people who live, love, work, and play here. Five photographs will be awarded our Best in Show award along with a $100 cash prize. Each award will be chosen by a panel of distinguished metro-area photographers: John Christopher Anderson, Sam Hurd, Darren Smith, Lauren Stockbower, and Jennifer Sakai.

The opening reception will be held Wednesday, February 13 from 6-10 p.m. Complimentary wine, beer, and snacks will be provided. A full color 13th annual Exhibition Magazine with all 43 winning photos will be available for purchase. Custom framing for the show is provided by Apex Moulding and Framing.

Advance tickets for the opening are on sale now for $20; door tickets will be $25. Government employees: We know the record-long shutdown continues to affect you. Use the promo code “furlough” and show a valid federal government ID at the door for a 50% discount.

Exhibit hours (free admission):
Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday through Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m.
Closing day: Sunday, February 24

All photographs displayed will be for sale. High-res images available upon request.

For more information or media passes, please contact:
Noe Todorovich at info@exposeddc.com

Exposed DC would like to thank the 2019 show sponsors for their support.

The Exposed DC Photography Show is a Ten Miles Square production.
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Winning Photos of our 13th Annual Exposed DC Contest

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Thank you to everyone who submitted to this year’s contest for sharing your work with us! Every year we enjoy seeing this city of ours come alive through your photography which showcases its people, places, art, music, sports, and everything in between. We’re proud to feature local photographers of all levels whose images, as seen together, tell the story of living in the Washington, D.C. area. You can find the complete list of winners below. More details about the exhibition and opening reception are available here.

If you recently discovered Exposed DC, welcome! We hope you’ll stick around and become part of our community. Here’s how to get involved, including contributing images to our daily features, coming out to happy hours, and being part of our other activities through the year.

Speaking of happy hours, join us tonight at 801 Restaurant and Bar from 6-8 p.m. Open to all photographers and photography fans. Our team will be there, so please come and say hello and help us celebrate photography in Washington, D.C. and toast to the winners of the contest!

Save the date for the opening of the Exposed DC Photography Show on Wednesday, February 13 at Touchstone Gallery. We are thrilled to partner with Touchstone Foundation for the Arts to bring our 13th annual exhibition to an awesome, artist-owned gallery located in downtown Washington, D.C. since 1976. We’ll have more details on the exhibit and opening soon, but for now, please join us in congratulating the 2019 Exposed DC winners…

Kanayo Adibe – The Tree Amigos
Kanayo Adibe – Here Lies …
Nadia Adona – U Street Cut
LeRoy Armstead – I Know He Will Call
Kirth Bobb – My Neighbour
Robert Cannon – Grecian Urn
Miles Carter – McPherson Square
Shamila Chaudhary – The Fort
Scott Cook – Moke
Brett Davis – Young Patriot
Barry Dunn – Lone Skater
Ginny Filer – Library of Congress
Karon Flage – DC Summer Can Be Joyful
Gabrielle Gipson – Prismatic GLOW
Jimell Greene – Fort Reno at Dusk
Robb Hill – 4th of July
Miki Jourdan – Before The Bubble Burst
Mike Landsman – Caps Win The Cup!
Mike Landsman – Press and Protest
Joseph Leavitt – Electricity on the Hill
Zack Lewkowicz – The Swarm
Geoff Livingston – Pulse
Jenny Markley – Singing in the Rain
Jeffrey Morris – No Props
Angela Napili – All the Starlings Above
Erika Nizborski – Capitals Parade
Victoria Pickering – Pride
Victoria Pickering – The Temple Burn
Jean-Pierre Plé – Geometry Reimagined
Jean-Pierre Plé – Remembering the Light
David Posey – Standing Room Only
Eric Purcell – Love In Progress
Mukul Ranjan – Catharsis
Diriki Rice – Dazzle
Michael Ryan – Rock Creek
Susan Sanders – Parallax
Sofia Sebastian – Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C.
John Sonderman – Seeing Deeper
Carol Stalun – Ship Passing in the Morning
Chris Suspect – Hyattsville, MD
Christopher Thomas – Glass Half Full
Arpita Upadhyaya – Where’s the Capitol?
Kevin Wolf – Nuisance Flooding

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