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2020 Best in Show Winner: Iñaki Sánchez

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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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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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Friday Links: November 1, 2019

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Photo by Geoff Livingston

Our annual photography contest opens next week. That’s right…next week! Join us for a kickoff happy hour on Thursday, November 7 from 6-8 p.m. at The Crown & Crow and get ready to submit your best images showcasing the Washington, D.C. area where we live, work, love, and win sports championships!

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