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Announcing the Best in Show Judges for the 2021 Exposed DC Photography Show

January 13, 2021 By Ron Keith Leave a Comment

We’re excited… The 2021 Exposed DC Photography Contest is here and open for entries through January 27. Residents of the D.C. metropolitan area: we invite you to submit the best images you’ve taken that showcase your personal experience living and working in our nation’s capital.

Don’t wait. Enter here.

Winners will be announced in February, and we’ll host a virtual happy hour to celebrate and commemorate our 15th annual contest and show–can you believe it?

The 2021 Exposed DC Photography Show will feature the winners of this year’s contest. Additionally, we have invited five distinguished local photographers and creatives 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. 

We are happy and honored to announce the special judges of this year’s show.

Adriana Mendoza

Adriana is the Creative Director and Operations Manager at Femme Fatale DC, a dynamic community that supports and amplifies womxn in business and in life. Her background includes a Master in Landscape Architecture focused in the design of public space in underserved communities. She worked at Floura Teeter Landscape Architects, bringing communities together through designing attractive and functional places for public gathering.

Deveney Williams

Deveney is a D.C. based visual storyteller and designer. Her photography work focuses on portraiture and editorial work. She aims to dismantle beauty standards and inspire people through her subjects.

Jamie Davis Smith

Jamie is a documentary and family photographer living in Washington, D.C. She is a former photography ambassador for Manfrotto, and her work has been featured in HuffPost, The Washington Post, and various other publications. Jamie has written extensively about photography. 

Kirth Bobb

Kirth is a FujiFilm ambassador, and his photographs have been published in several major publications including The New York Times, Washington Times, and HuffPost, and featured in several galleries across Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

Steve Bosak

Steve is an amateur photographer who’s lived in D.C. for 20 years. He is a design thinking consultant and trainer who helps companies and agencies use a human-centered approach to innovation. He has a keen interest in photographing nature, buildings, and macro subjects.


The contest and the annual photography exhibition are an integral part of how Exposed DC supports and celebrates local photographers and their work. We also love seeing the images you share with us on Instagram and in our Flickr group, curating Fotowalk exhibitions, creating opportunities for us to gather together to share our love for all things photography (more virtually than in person these days), and keeping you informed of photography news through our newsletter.

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2020 Best in Show Winner: Sofía Sebastián

February 14, 2020 By Andie Capace 1 Comment

We can’t wait to celebrate local photography with you all at our 14th Annual Photography Show opening on Wednesday, February 19 from 6-9 p.m. You can grab your discounted tickets in advance here! As the big day approaches, we are excited to announce the final Best in Show winner for this year’s show. Every year we ask a panel of five distinguished, local judges to each select one image to receive a Best in Show award. The winning photographers each receive a $100 cash prize and are acknowledged in the show and exhibition program.

Today, we are announcing the Best in Show winner “Union Station” by Sofía Sebastián, selected by judge Angela Bain. Bain commented, “This image has it all: mood, compelling composition, play of shadows, light and dark, juxtaposition of hard straight lines with gentle curved ones, all while telling a story of DC and some of the interesting people who live and work here at the busiest transportation hub in our dynamic city.”

You can view more of Sebastián’s work on her website and on Instagram.

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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.


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2020 Best in Show Winner: Iñaki Sánchez

February 13, 2020 By Andie Capace Leave a Comment

We are excited to announce the next Best in Show winner as we approach our 14th Annual Photography Show on Wednesday, February 19 with a reception from 6-9 p.m. Be sure to grab your discounted tickets here before ticket prices go up at the door! Each winner of the Best in Show award was chosen by one of our guest judges—five distinguished, local photographers. The winning photographers each receive a $100 cash prize.

Today, we are announcing the next Best in Show winner: “Beauty in the Ordinary” by Iñaki Sánchez, selected by judge Darrow Montgomery. This image appealed to Montgomery due to the “very quiet but beautifully composed” depiction of this ordinary scene. With this image, Sánchez challenges the audience to extract beauty in the mundane, human moments of everyday life.

You can view more of Sánchez’s work on Instagram.

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Darrow Montgomery began photographing for Washington City Paper in 1986 while 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.


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2020 Best in Show Winner: Danielle Press

February 12, 2020 By Andie Capace Leave a Comment

Our 14th Annual Photography Show opens a week from today on Wednesday, February 19 from 6-9 p.m. You can grab your discounted tickets for opening night in advance here! As we lead up to the show, we are announcing this year’s Best in Show winners. A panel of five distinguished, local judges carefully review all photos, each selecting one image to receive a Best in Show award. The winning photographers each receive a $100 cash prize and are recognized in the exhibit and program.

The next Best in Show winner we are announcing today is “Gold with Kayak” by Danielle Press, selected by judge Beverly Price. Price commented that she loved this photo “because it makes me feel like I’m on the Nile River of the DMV.” This photo is a great capture of what we can epitomize “golden hour” to be.

You can view more of Press’ work on her website, on Instagram, and on Twitter.

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Beverly Ailisha Price was born and raised in the Capitol Hill region of D.C. As someone who is passionate about community, she uses photography to as a way preserve culture and communicate the stories of her often forgotten and disenfranchised commonality.


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2020 Best in Show Winner: Ather Ahsan

February 11, 2020 By Andie Capace Leave a Comment

We are looking forward to our 14th Annual Photography Show, opening on February 19th from 6-9 p.m. As we lead up to the show, we will be announcing this year’s Best in Show winners. A panel of five distinguished, local judges carefully review all photos, and each selects one image to receive a Best in Show award. The winning photographers each receive a $100 cash prize and are recognized in the exhibit and program.

Today we are announcing the second Best in Show winner: “Blast Off” by Ather Ahsan, selected by judge Shedrick Pelt. Pelt expressed that this image “literally hit home” for him. “The Saturn V rocket that is projected on the side of the Washington Monument currently resides in my hometown of Huntsville, Alabama.” The monument is shown in contrast to the vast, brightly lit night sky, further symbolizing the wonders of space travel.

You can view more of Ather Ahsan’s work on Instagram.

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Shedrick Pelt is a D.C. based editorial, live-event, and commercial photographer. His style is driven by an urge to be the fly on the wall, capturing an experience without disrupting the nature of the moment. More about Shedrick and his work can be found at www.sdotpdotmedia.com.


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