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2023 Best in Show Winner: Chris Suspect

May 31, 2023 By exposeddc

The 17th Annual Exposed DC Photography Show is just around the corner! Please join us this Sunday, June 4 from 3-6 p.m. for an opening celebration at Lost Origins Outside in the alley adjacent to Ellē at 3221 Mount Pleasant St NW.

This week, we’re announcing the Best in Show winners of this year’s exhibit. Each of these images was chosen by one of our guest judges—five distinguished, local photographers and creatives. The winning photographers each receive a $100 cash prize along with the Best in Show distinction.

Join us in congratulating Chris Suspect whose photo, “Daikaiju at Slash Run 2022” was selected by judge Astrid Riecken. Regarding her selection, Astrid commented that “the photographer combines the essential elements of a striking photograph. Good light, good composition (filling the frame and good balance) and a terrific moment which reveals a great deal of excitement in the faces of the crowd. The photographer was in the right position and captured this very energetic moment perfectly.”

You can view more of Chris’ work and connect with him on his website, Instagram, and Twitter.

About the Judge

Astrid Riecken is a 2022 Pulitzer prize-winning photographer, based in Washington, D.C. Since 2016, she has taught at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design of George Washington University and since 2020 at the School of Communication at American University. She has won numerous awards in Picture of the Year International, National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photography and the White House News Photographers Association competition in which she was named “Photographer of the Year” in 2014. In 2022, nominated by The Washington Post, she won as part of a team the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the coverage of the assault on Washington on January 6, 2021. Her news event coverage includes the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina, the presidential campaign and election of former President Barack Obama, the refugee crisis in Germany in 2015, the impeachment trials of former President Donald Trump, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Her personal work focuses on the lives and struggle of aging jazz musicians in the U.S. Equally comfortable in English and German, she frequently freelances for international publications including Getty Images and The Washington Post. Her work has been published by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Guardian, and Die Zeit, among many others.

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In Frame: June 21, 2017

June 21, 2017 By Caroline Space

https://instagram.com/p/BVfu5dMFsgO/

It’s officially Summer. This photo by Chris Suspect reminds me of the endless summer shenanigans of youth. The ones that are filled with spontaneous decisions we might not have made sober but the ones that became fun anecdotes we reminisce about with friends. The moment in which the person is captured is frozen is an odd and interesting motion that keeps me focused in the frame.

2016 Best in Show Winner: Chris Suspect

March 2, 2016 By Meaghan Gay

Today is the third of our five Best In Show prize winners for the 10th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. We invited each member of a panel of distinguished D.C. metro-area photographers to choose their favorite photograph from the 47 in this year’s exhibit. The five winning photographers will each receive a $100 cash prize from Exposed DC.

We’ll be announcing the winners each day this week. Advance tickets are still available for the opening reception next Thursday, March 10!

Our third winner is “Untitled” by Chris Suspect, chosen by judge Susana Raab. Suspect’s image, like many of his photos, is a study in composition. The woman at the center of the photo is surrounded by a spiral of chaos, chairs and tables strewn about, and children in various stages of apparent meltdown. Her outfit and pose would be more fitting on a Caribbean beach, but instead she is the calm at the center of a very colorful storm.

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Susana Raab was born in Lima, Peru and raised throughout the United States. She is a fine-art and documentary photographer working in Washington, D.C., creating personal work in addition to working as the photographer of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, documenting the East of the River communities in the city.

The heart of her work is a search for the quotidian, archetypical and ordinary: man’s relationship with his environment, identity within that construct, and transcendence or evolution. Susana’s work has been exhibited internationally and nationally, at venues including: the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Madrid, the Pingyao Photo Festival, Noorderlicht Fotofestival in the Netherlands, and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C.

Susana has been the recipient of the White House News Photographers’ Project Grant, a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, Honorable Mentions in Center’s Project Competition and Curator’s Choice Awards, and a Puffin Grant, among others. Her work is held in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History, The Library of Congress, Division of Prints & Photographs, The Art Museum of the Americas, The EnFoco Collection, and the DC Public Art Bank.

Friday Links: October 16, 2015

October 16, 2015 By James Calder

The Washington City Paper profiles one of our favorite local photographers, Chris Suspect.
Last call for Artomatic 2015 – claim your spot now!
After a recent survey showed a significance number of photographers admitted to staging pictures, the New York Times Lens Blog asked several editors and photographers to address the issue.
Sail across the Indian Ocean in this stunning, online exhibition by the National Museum of African Art of the earliest photographic history of the Swahili Coast. It’s the Smithsonian’s first major online project, cost $1.8 million and took three years to put together.
Jonathan Ernst documents Morgan Tolley, a third generation crab processor working on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay who worries that his industry may be under threat as more and more young people shun the traditional family-oriented trade.
The geography of poverty – a journey through forgotten America. Photographs by Matt Black, words by Trymaine Lee.
Away from Che, cigars and colorful Cadillacs, Havana’s “Jesus Maria” barrio is too dangerous for the tourist trail. Photographer Matt Wilson has delved into its streets to show the laughter, despair and hair-curlers of a crumbling labyrinth.
Urban growth, sporting events, financial crashes and political turmoil have left a trail of city airports and airfields deserted around the globe. While some lie abandoned or face redevelopment, others are being creatively reused.
Fans from all over the world attending the ongoing 2015 Rugby World Cup in England and Wales.
The winners of this year’s wildlife photographer of the year contest have been announced at London’s Natural History Museum. Warning: the overall winner’s image is a bit gory.

Friday Links: June 26, 2015

June 26, 2015 By James Calder

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Enter this Phillips Collection contest by submitting your own “American Moment” and you could win a camera from the Leica Store DC, or another great prize. The deadline is 5 p.m., July 21.
Head over to the DC Arts Center July 8-10 to claim your space for their popular, annual 1460 Wallmountables exhibit. They’ve been doing this show since 1989!
Mega-photo-op alert! Watch this 10,000-square-foot ball pit being constructed at the National Building Museum on their livecam, and visit the installation starting July 4.
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, an intensive training program for writers, radio producers and photographers that has operated in Maine for 42 years, is shutting its doors in September.
Concert photographer Jason Sheldon calls out Taylor Swift for her “hypocritical” open letter to Apple.
Instagram appears to be back to normal in North Korea after a week of warnings on user accounts saying the popular photo-sharing app had been blacklisted for harmful content.
Have fears about privacy, terrorism, and pedophilia ruined street photography?
Ellie Davies merges images of stars and galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope with landscapes from English forests. She starts by creating the photographs of the landscape, looking for compositions that could accommodate other shapes, and then looks for a suitable starscape to fill the space. The results are dreamlike.
Another photographer combining images is Stephen McMennamy whose #combophoto project may look like surreal photo-manipulations created using Photoshop, but are actually the result of a much simpler process, cleverly arranging two photos side-by-side to create imaginative and amusing new scenes.
Danish photographer Ken Hermann tries to capture the person behind the mask in his series on Los Angeles street performers, many of whom dress as famous Hollywood characters.
Watch this tiger be released into the Russian wild where he’ll have a gal pal and lots to feast on.