2020 annual show Archives

Friday Links: February 28, 2020

February 28, 2020 By Ron Keith

This weekend is your last chance to see the 2020 Exposed DC Photography Show at Touchstone Gallery! The exhibit is open today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and tomorrow and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. with free admission. We’ll be there on Sunday from 3-5 p.m. for a little closing celebration, and we’d love to see you there! You can purchase a photo from the show at the closing or via our online marketplace at any time. You can also get a copy of our exhibition program featuring all the winning images for $10 or order it online here.

Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico, the artist’s most extensive U.S. exhibition in more than two decades with 140 photographs organized around nine themes, opens today at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. On view through May 25.
Stop Motion is seeking analog photography from D.C., MD, and VA for their Volume 9 slideshow.
The White House News Photographers Association announced the winners of the Eyes of History Contests earlier this week.
Register for photography classes at Glen Echo before they start up in March. Topics covered range from darkroom printing to portfolio building, street photography to writing artist statements and more.
The winners of this year’s Underwater Photographer of the Year contest were announced this week, with the top prize going to an image of crabeater seals that had taken up residence in an iceberg in Antarctica.
Sign up for Union 206’s special mailing list to be notified about their monthly behind-the-scenes experiences at the studio during an avant-garde fashion editorial shoot for magazine publication.
Join Farrah Skeiky tomorrow at Transformer from 2-5 p.m. at the official book release for Present Tense: DC Punk and DIY, Right Now.
The New Yorker explores how Santu Mofokeng’s work wrestled with themes of history and land, memory and spirituality, and helped shape the course of South African photography.
Chris Suspect will be releasing four books in 2020, starting with Gratuity Included which will be released on March 15. The first edition will have a special design including red film inserts to separate sequences and a red film dust jacket and is available for pre-order at $30.

Thank You for Coming to Celebrate Exposed DC’s 14th Annual Show!

February 20, 2020 By Noe Todorovich

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Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last night for the opening of the 14th annual Exposed DC Photography Show! We were thrilled to see you all, and we hope you enjoyed the celebration and the 43 images in the exhibit that showcase life in the Washington, D.C. metro area. If you’d like to purchase any of the photos on display, you can do so here. At the exhibit, scan the QR code on a title card to go directly to the page where you can buy that image! You can also get a copy of our eye-catching 2020 Exhibition Program online.

Exposed DC is very grateful to Touchstone Gallery for hosting our exhibit, with support from the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts, and to this year’s exhibit sponsors for their support: the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Capital Photography Center, Focus on the Story, Union 206, and Washington Photo Safari. We’d also like to thank our awesome volunteers for all their help; RSVP Catering for taking great care of our guests throughout the opening; Art & Framing Expo for providing custom framing for the show; Rachael Carter for providing graphic design support including our beautiful exhibition programs; and BaseCampDC for printing support.

Last but not least, we’d like to thank our photographer for the evening, Emma McAlary. Enjoy a small gallery of her work above, and even more photos in this album on Facebook.

The exhibit is free and open to the public through Sunday, March 1 during the following hours.

Exhibit Hours
Wednesday-Friday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: noon to 5 p.m.

Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001

2020 Best in Show Winner: Sofía Sebastián

February 14, 2020 By Andie Capace

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.

2020 Best in Show Winner: Iñaki Sánchez

February 13, 2020 By Andie Capace

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.

2020 Best in Show Winner: Danielle Press

February 12, 2020 By Andie Capace

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.