Annual Exhibit

Winning Photos of our 13th Annual Exposed DC Contest

January 15, 2019 By Noe Todorovich Leave a Comment

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.

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 – A Fort in Rock Creek Park
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

Friday Links: May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 By Noe Todorovich Leave a Comment

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us at our opening of the 12th annual Exposed DC Photography Show at Dupont Underground and to everyone who came by to visit the exhibit afterwards! Did you catch our opening night wrap-up with great photos by Mariah Miranda? *UPDATE* The exhibit will be open 12-5 p.m. this weekend. You can also peruse our online store if you’d like to purchase any of the photos in the show. Now who’s ready for some links?

Join Kirth Bobb, one of the 35 photographers in this year’s show, tomorrow morning for a Petworth PhotoWalk focused on taking family photography to the next level, 9-11 a.m.
A picture of graffiti at Zion National Park got so much attention on social media that the self-confessed vandal turned himself in to park rangers.
Eric Etheridge provides visual and oral histories of Mississippi’s Freedom Riders, including portraits taken around 50 years after their mug shots.
The winners of the Focus on the Story Awards have been announced and will be exhibited during the upcoming festival, June 7-10. You can still register for the festival as well as special events, but spots are filling up fast so don’t wait too long!
GQ turned the botched Photoshop job into comedy with its latest magazine cover.
More Than Just Parks’ crew of three spent two weeks backpacking through Death Valley National Park taking 4 TB worth of photos and video to create a beautiful time-lapse video. The group aims to create them for every U.S. national park, and we are on board with it.
James Forde shares his experience as a photojournalist in Venezuela over the past two years.
Sign up for one of the many upcoming classes or special events from the Capital Photography Center.

Exposed DC Opening Night Wrap-Up

May 12, 2018 By Noe Todorovich Leave a Comment

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View the full set of images here

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last night for the opening of our 12th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. We had a great time with you all, and we hope you enjoyed the celebration for the 40 winning images of the DC metro area. If you’d like to purchase any of the photos on display as fine art framed prints, you can do so here. You can also get a copy of our 2018 Exhibition Program online here or during any of the gallery hours during the exhibit run, which are free and open to all: Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., and Tuesday the 15th through Sunday the 20th. The last day of the exhibit is Monday, May 21, 5-7 p.m.

Exposed DC would like to thank Dupont Underground for hosting our exhibit, Dodge-Chrome, Inc. for printing the winning images, Union 206 Studio for sponsoring the Best in Show awards, goARTful for printing support, Capital Photography Center for general support, and The Beat & Path for providing great music all night long. BaseCampDC provides our paper printing services, and Rachael Carter designed our beautiful exhibition program.

We also want to thank our photographer, Mariah Miranda, for doing a great job documenting the special occasion! Enjoy a sampling of photos from the night above, and you can view the full set here.

2018 Best in Show Winner: Miki Jourdan

May 9, 2018 By Noe Todorovich Leave a Comment

Today we announce the fifth and final Best in Show prize winner from the 12th Annual Exposed DC Photography Show, which opens this Friday. We invited a panel of five distinguished photographers to each choose a favorite image from this year’s exhibit to be awarded a Best in Show award. Each winning photographer will receive a $100 cash prize, sponsored by Union 206 Studio.

Advance tickets for our May 11 opening night are still available, so don’t delay!

Now without further ado, the fifth Best in Show winning photo is “Resist” by Miki Jourdan, selected by judge Marvin Joseph. Joseph wrote, “I really liked the darkness and saturated color and ghost white bonnets that the ladies wore. Definitely reminded me of imagery from the tv show The Handmaid’s Tale.” It definitely reminds me of the show as well, and I love stark contrast and how it almost looks like the group is illuminated by a spotlight, creating a very dramatic vibe.

You can see more of Jourdan’s photographs on Instagram.

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Marvin Joseph is a Washington, D.C. native and staff photojournalist for The Washington Post. His work includes celebrity portraiture, fashion, and editorial photography. In addition to the Post, his photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Washingtonian, Essence, Sister 2 Sister and Ebony and Jet magazines, as well as the books “Michelle: Her First Year As First Lady” and “The Inauguration of Barack Obama: A Photographic Journal.” His photographs have won contests by Pictures of the Year International (POYi), The National Press Photographers Association, The Best of Photojournalism, Northern Short Course, and The White House News Photographers Association. His photographs were also a part of “Coming Home a Different Person,” which earned the Documentary Project of the Year Award from POYi, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist documenting Specialist Robert Warren, a soldier who returned from Afghanistan with a traumatic brain injury.

2018 Best in Show Winner: Marci Lindsay

May 8, 2018 By Noe Todorovich Leave a Comment

**Marci Lindsay – Market Vendor’s Assistant**

Today we have the fourth Best in Show prize winner from the 12th Annual Exposed DC Photography Show. A panel of five distinguished photographers was invited to choose their favorite image from this year’s exhibit to be awarded a Best in Show award. Each winning photographer will receive a $100 cash prize, sponsored by Union 206 Studio.

For our third winning photo we have “Market Vendor’s Assistant” by Marci Lindsay, selected by judge Carolyn Russo. Russo wrote, “The colors, cropped elements, and sense of mystery in this scene remind me of an Edward Hopper painting.” I love the connection Russo makes here. I also find mysel drawn into the image by the lack of a person in the frame while the dog stares intently forward. Maybe it’s that along with the cropped elements that adds intrigue to this scene…making me wonder what is happening all around the photographer in this very moment.

You can see more of Lindsay’s photographs on Instagram.

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Carolyn Russo is a museum specialist, photographer, and co-curator for the art collection at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. She is the author of four books: Art of the Airport Tower (Smithsonian Books, Fall 2015), In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight (powerHouse Books, 2007), Artifacts of Flight (Harry N. Abrams, 2003), and Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots (Bulfinch Press, 1997). She has curated several exhibitions and her photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States, China, and Finland.