Heather Goss, Author at Exposed DC

In Frame: May 14, 2014

May 14, 2014 By Heather Goss

Puerto Ricans Dancing by Alfredo Herrera

It’s the time of year to dance in the streets! Alfredo Herrera caught these two box-stepping for change downtown last week.

EXPOSED DC OPENING NIGHT TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 6PM!

March 19, 2014 By Heather Goss

Exposed DC Photography Show poster by Jimmy Morris.

Advanced ticket sales have ended. Door tickets available for $20.

Just hours left before the opening of the Exposed DC Photography Show! Join us for all the local photography you can handle plus open bar/buffet from Bluejacket Brewery, Founding Farmers & Farmers Fishers Bakers, Everlasting Life Vegan Cafe, Boxwood Winery, Cavanagh Family Imports, A&M Imports and Tel’Veh Wine Bar! Some extra treats: The first 200 guests to arrive will get mini-doughnuts from District Doughnuts, and the first 100 guests to visit Tel’Veh’s table can take home a gift card.

Join us after the opening for a party in the back theater of The Passenger with photography-themed cocktail specials featuring El Buho Mezcal and Rhum Clément. More info here.

Exposed DC Photography Show Opens March 19

March 6, 2014 By Heather Goss

Erin Kelly, "Early Morning Fishing" — Early Morning Fishing by Erin Kelly

Our huge annual photography exhibit opens in just a couple weeks! Do you have your tickets yet?

The quick and dirty details:

*8th annual Exposed DC Photography Show, featuring 49 images of the Washington area.
*Opening reception: Wed., March 19, 6 to 10 p.m.; exhibition closes April 6.
*Long View Gallery, 1234 9th Street NW, Washington D.C.
*Exhibition Program and the 5th Anniversary Magazine available for purchase.
*Inaugural Best in Show Awards sponsored by the Corcoran College of Art + Design, chosen by a panel of distinguished local photojournalists.
*After party at The Passenger, 8 p.m. to close. Free entry, cash bar.

Food and Drinks courtesy of:
Bluejacket Brewery | Founding Farmers and Farmers Fishers Bakers
Tel’Veh Wine Bar | Everlasting Life Vegan Restaurant
Boxwood Winery | Cavanagh Family Imports and A&M Imports

Support provided by:
Washington School of Photography | Capital Photography Center
Historical Society of Washington | HOIST Studio

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Exposed DC is pleased to announce its 8^th annual Exposed DC Photography Show at Long View Gallery, from March 19 to April 6, 2014. After seven wonderful years with DCist, we’re now closing in on our first year since we launched as an independent, year-round venture last June, and we’re proud to say it’s been a success. We’re working hard to cultivate the local photography community, from hobbyist to professional, with our website that features interviews with local talent, reams of informational guides for everything from studio rentals to photography classes, and a calendar highlighting every photography event in the region. We’ll continue to build on this community that our annual exhibition has created through exciting new features and events in the coming year.

Our 49 winning photographs were chosen from a contest for their unique view of the Washington area – not as a political venue or tourist destination, but as a place where we live and work and love every day. Six of those photographs will be awarded our inaugural Best in Show award and $100 prize, chosen by a panel of distinguished metro-area photojournalists, and made possible by the Corcoran College of Art + Design.

Our opening reception will be held in Long View’s newly expanded 9,000 square foot gallery space. Local businesses will complete our celebration of everything Washington, with beer from the new Bluejacket Brewery, wine from Boxwood Winery, Cavanagh Family Imports and A&M Imports, and a delicious selection of bites from Founding Farmers and Farmers Fishers Bakers, Tel’Veh Wine Bar, and Everlasting Life Vegan Restaurant. We’ve invited DJ Sequoia and v:shal kanwar back to spin tunes.

Tickets are $15 in advance, with limited $20 tickets at the door.

Join us for a free after party in The Passenger’s theater. 8 p.m. to close, cash bar.

A full-color Exhibition Program with the 2014 winners will be available for $10. The special issue 5th Anniversary Magazine from 2011 will also be available for $25. At the reception only, guests can purchase them together for $30.

Long View Gallery is located at 1234 9th St. NW, just a few blocks from the Mt. Vernon/Convention Center Metro. All photographs displayed will be for sale. Regular gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. Free.

The 2014 Exposed DC Photography Show is a Ten Miles Square LLC production.

For more information or media passes, please contact:
Heather Goss at heather@exposeddc.com

Our 2014 Contest Closes Tonight!

January 8, 2014 By Heather Goss

Just before midnight tonight is your last chance to enter our 2014 photography contest! Remember, Exposed DC is about encouraging photographers of all levels, so whether you’re a professional or just find yourself getting some great shots with your new cameraphone, we want to see your work.

The exhibit, which will open at Long View Gallery in March, will show off the life and culture of the Washington, D.C. area, with lots of great local sponsors to help us throw a blow-out party for everyone — a real celebration of photography and this city.

Real the contest rules here, send in your $10 for three entries, and stick them in our Flickr pool by 11:59 p.m. We’ll announce the winners in just one week, January 15, and later on, you’ll find out if your image also won one of our five Best in Show prizes, awarded by our special judges, which comes with a $100 cash prize.

That reminds us, it’s time to throw another happy hour! To celebrate our winners, and meet a whole new group of photographer faces that have appeared, let’s all get together:

The Hamilton
600 14th St NW (Metro Center)
Wednesday, January 15, 6 p.m.

Good luck, and we’ll see you next week!

Friday Links

December 27, 2013 By Heather Goss

Christmas week, whether you celebrate or not, is often one punctuated by lots of downtime, so we’ve got some great reading and even better pictures to keep you busy through the weekend. And of course, we assume you’re taking some of that time to pick your three best D.C.-area photos to enter into our contest? Submissions close on midnight January 8 (and be mindful of our suggestion to make your Flickr account now and upload a few images, even if you aren’t ready to submit them to our contest group, because it can take a few days for Flickr to approve your account and make it viewable to the public — i.e. us!) Do you have questions about the contest or what you should enter? Ask us in the comments or at info [at] exposeddc.com.

The Washington City Paper’s Louis Jacobson tells us what he considers the best photography exhibits in D.C. in 2013.
Vivian Maier was a pioneering street photographer who became a household name when a couple of guys stumbled upon nearly her entire life’s work in 2007 and launched an immensely successful Kickstarter to film a movie about her. Now you can view her contact sheets online.
Using tilt-shift to create “Tiny universes” made out of pictures of the big universe. This one is for the astro-nerds.
A young Syrian photographer who freelanced for Reuters was killed while covering the fighting in Aleppo last week.
Speaking of young Syrians, HIPA, a Dubai arts foundation, worked with child refugees in a Jordanian camp, giving them cameras and lessons on how to use photography as a form of communication. Incidentally, HIPA also runs a photography contest open to anyone in the world over 18 that closes on December 31, 2013, is free to enter, and offers nearly $400,000 in prize money.
The headline “Photographer Finds Cockatiels, Jesus in NYC Basements” definitely had us clicking through.
The famed horse track, where thoroughbreds like Seabiscuit and Citation once ran, has closed.
A Washington, D.C. family poses for a Christmas portrait in 1918.
We need every publication to start doing this: The New Yorker posts all the bizarro photos they dug up while doing research in 2013.
You probably saw this link posted on Facebook by every photographer you know last week. These cheetsheets are even more beautiful than they are helpful.
Looking to develop some film? Local Darkroom has what you need, wherever you might be.
The only thing wrong with this photo gallery of Dominic the pit bull puppy cuddling animal patients as they come out of surgery is that we can’t reach through the screen and cuddle Dominic right back.
A new book, Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk Of Lightning, takes a look at documentary photographer’s life.
Well this is pretty terrible. A San Diego male tiger killed its mate while attempting to breed. If that’s not your cup of link tea, how about this photographer getting a scary view of a tiger shark with its jaws wide open.