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Winning Photos of our 11th Annual Exposed DC Contest

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We received a record number of photographs this year, thanks in part to extraordinary circumstances that extended our contest, which made it all the more difficult to suss out several dozen that would celebrate life in the nation’s capital. We’re proud to highlight images from institutions we welcomed as a city, such as the new era of organizing that the Women’s March has ushered in and the opening of the National African American Museum of History and Culture; smaller moments we reveled in like memorable art exhibits, snow days, and festivals; and then of course the subtle scenes that make every day life in D.C. such a rich experience. You’ll find the complete list of winners below. Save the date now for the opening of the Exposed DC Photography Show on March 9. We’ll have more information about our great new venue and the event details soon. New this year, we’ve partnered with FRAMEBRIDGE, a local company which will be printing and framing all the images for the show!

 

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Some of you recently discovered Exposed DC, and we hope whether you won or not, 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 programming through the year.

Join us tonight to toast to the winners at Meridian Pint in Columbia Heights at 6 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.

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Enter the 11th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest!

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UPDATE:

We’re extending the deadline for our photo contest to January 25!

It occurred to us a little late that two important events are happening immediately after our regular contest deadline: The Presidential Inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington, not to mention the chaos that will engulf the metro area throughout the weekend. We’d like to include images from these events in our annual show in March, so you now have until midnight, January 25 to enter our contest.

If you’ve already entered: Don’t worry. You can exchange photos in the sets you’ve submitted. Or better yet, increase your chances of winning by entering a whole new set. Just do it by the 25th!

ANOTHER UPDATE: We’ll announce the details very soon, but we’re just finalizing a deal to print and frame the winning photos at no cost to the winners this year! Stay tuned…

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Enter the 11th Annual Exposed DC Photo Contest!

Our 2017 photo contest is open for entries! Next March we’ll host the 11th annual Exposed DC Photography Show, our celebration of living in the Washington, D.C. area. We want to see your images of the people and places, the art and music and food and sports, and the culture and nostalgia of this incredible town we live in. The District is too often reduced to a tourist destination or a political mud-pit – but those who live, work, and love here can rise above. The Exposed DC exhibit shows our city as only we know it.

The contest is geared towards photographers who don’t usually exhibit their work, but it is open to all – send in your terrific iPhone shot, or your sharp Leica photo. If you simply love taking pictures, this is your contest. You can submit your work until January 11, 2017, so if you don’t think you have the perfect shot just yet, you have plenty of time to go out and get it! Need inspiration? Check out the winners from our 10th anniversary exhibit.

Tonight, December 7, we’ll be upstairs at 801 Restaurant & Bar, 801 Florida Ave NW, to kick off the contest. Join us from 6 to 8 p.m. and meet the Exposed DC team, previous years’ winners, and all your fellow photography lovers.

Rules and guidelines for entering the contest and participating in our exhibit are covered in the submission page. Have questions or comments? Drop them in the comments on this post, or ask us tonight at 801, and subscribe to our newsletter for all our contest and exhibit updates. If you’d like to volunteer for our team, please drop us a line.

See you all tonight!

2016 Best in Show Winner: Andrew Golda

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Reflections on a Haircut by Andrew Golda
Reflections on a Haircut by Andrew Golda

Today is the final 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 final winning photograph is “Reflections on a Haircut” by Andrew Golda, chosen by Lucian Perkins. Golda’s image is a wonderfully layered creation. The two men are sharing a serene moment in a barbershop, but the details of the scene and the reflection add a layer of visual noise. Golda shows us a moment we’ve all experienced, the peaceful, intimate moment in our loud and bustling city.

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Lucian Perkins is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1995 and 2000) who worked as a staff photographer for The Washington Post for 27 years. In 1996, his photograph of a boy in war-torn Chechnya was awarded World Press Photo of the Year, and in 1994 he was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by National Press Photographers Association. Most of his work has been in the United States, but he has also covered wars in the former Yugoslavia, Russia, Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently, Perkins is an independent photographer living in Washington, D.C.

2016 Best in Show Winner: Kevin Wolf

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Second Coming by Kevin Wolf
Second Coming by Kevin Wolf

Today we have the fourth of our five Best In Show prize winners for the 10th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. We invited a panel of distinguished D.C. metro-area photographers to each 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. You can still grab advance tickets for the opening reception next Thursday, March 10!

Our fourth winning photo is “Second Coming” by Kevin Wolf. A well manicured golf course is a bizarre place for a nuclear blast, but luckily Wolf was there to capture it. This photo is actually of overexposed fireworks, but the choices Wolf made – like only showing the backs of peoples’ heads – create a wonderful, science fiction like scene. The full range of grays add a peaceful quality to an image filled with doom.

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Lauren Stockbower has worked as a picture editor for the last twenty years, including for The New York Times, Forbes, Business Week, and U.S. News & World Report. Previously, she worked as both a staff newspaper photographer in the Philadelphia area and also as a freelancer throughout Asia for eight years.

An educator, she taught at the Corcoran College of Art + Design for ten years, and also at CDIA in Georgetown. She is currently an adjunct professor at NOVA in Alexandria, VA in the photography + media department. She also freelances as a picture editor for clients such as National Geographic Traveler, USA Today and The Nature Conservancy. She is also currently Portfolio Director for UFolios.com.

2016 Best in Show Winner: Chris Suspect

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Untitled by Chris Suspect
Untitled by Chris Suspect

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.