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Friday Links: January 6, 2023

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Photo by Alex Huie

Happy New Year! We hope 2023 is off to a great start and look forward to reflecting on the last year or so in our nation’s capital with our annual photo contest. Have you entered your favorite images yet? Don’t let the deadline for entries sneak up on you. Submit your best images showcasing the D.C. metro area by January 31 for a chance to be part of our 17th annual exhibition celebrating local photography!

  • Washingtonian’s best things to do in the DC area for this week includes the Hirshhorn’s first survey of photographs captured by multigenerational Chinese artists between the 1990s and 2000s.
  • Keith Kozloff’s photography exhibition, a reflection on “deep time,” opens tomorrow at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center in Frederick, MD at 2:00 p.m.
  • An exhibition of photos taken by Colin Winterbottom offers a rare look at the artwork that’s been atop the John A. Wilson Building for more than a century.
  • Art critic Louis Jacobson rounded up eight shows from last year for his annual list of top local photography exhibits for the Washington City Paper.
  • Get a behind the scenes look at the birth of Sesame Street through David Attie’s photographs he captured while on assignment for a little-seen, hyper-focused magazine in the late 1960s.
  • Thousands of photographs taken by Coventry photographer Arthur Cooper from the 1940s to the 1960s have been digitized and released online with the public helping to identify people and places shown in the images.
  • A doctor saved a Marine’s life in Vietnam in 1968; a photo just reunited them last year.

Friday Links: December 23, 2023

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Santarchy by Victoria Pickering

We want to wish everyone a very happy holiday season! Do you have some extra time over the coming weeks? Might we suggest perusing your photos for your favorite recent shots of the DC metro area to enter into our 17th annual photo contest. You can also keep photographing over the coming weeks as the contest closes on January 31. We look forward to seeing all your awesome photos!

Friday Links: December 16

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Foggy Underpass by Emma K Alexandra

Exposed DC is proud to partner with Mount Vernon Triangle CID on a new, outdoor photography exhibit, “Through the Looking Glass,” featuring images by four of the photographers we are honored to have in our awesome community: Ashley Tillery, Christopher Chen, Matailong Du, and Shedrick Pelt. Join us for the opening reception + artist talk tomorrow from 2-4 p.m. We’ll be meeting at HEMPHILL but the walk itself is all outdoors so please dress accordingly.

  • Want to be part of our annual show next year? Submit to our 17th annual photo contest that just opened last week! The entry fee is $10/image, and the deadline is January 31.
  • Enjoy some good laughs and big smiles viewing the winners of the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
  • Join PartnersGlobal and the International Human Rights Art Festival to discuss real-life examples of how art can fuel peace at the DC Mini-Fest: Arts 4 Resilience today, 4-7 p.m., free.
  • Jason Persoff has been taking pictures of snowflakes for six years, with over 100 stunning close-up photos in his collection so far.
  • The Women Photograph Year in Pictures showcases the work of 100 of their 1,400+ members across the globe, highlighting assignment work, long term documentary projects, and personal stories from the past year.
  • The Guardian’s picture editors highlight the work of photographers whose pictures have stood out to them over the course of 2022.
  • Registration is open for Reuben Radding’s six-week online street photography workshop being held in March and April, $800.
  • Photo-editing app Lensa has been dominating feeds lately—first with its AI generated “Magic Avatars” followed by discussions about the ethics of it all.

Enter the 17th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest

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Our 2023 photography contest is open for entries! Submit your best images of the Washington, D.C. metro area by January 31 for the chance to be part of our 17th annual photography exhibition. We want to see what life in our nation’s capital is like for you. What scenes catch your eye? What events do you look forward to attending or just feel compelled to document? Watch our recent feature on WETA Arts to learn more about the show and what we look for to display in the exhibit. 

Winners of the contest will be featured in the 2023 Exposed DC Photography Show to be held in Spring or Summer 2023. Exposed DC takes public health concerns and accessibility into consideration when selecting the exhibit location. You can check out this page to view opening wrap-up posts and previous winners announcements to get a better sense of the show. We plan to kick off the celebration by announcing more details in early April. A virtual gallery featuring the show images will also be available during the exhibit run.

The entry cost is $10 per image, and you may submit as many images as you’d like. More details are available on our submission site. Entries are accepted now through January 31 at 11:59 p.m. Please see below for some important notes about the submission site to optimize your contest experience.  

Have any questions or comments? Check out these FAQs, comment on this post, or reach out to us on social media. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter, if you don’t already, to get updates about all of our contests and events, as well as news about all things photography related. If you’d like to join our team as a volunteer, please drop us a line. 

GO TO SUBMISSION SITE

Some notes about the submission site 

  • Please use a recent version of either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to submit to the contest. You may encounter bugs or errors with other browsers or outdated versions.
  • While there is no limit to the number of photos you can enter into the contest, you will only be able to submit once. Please be sure to review your entire application thoroughly and confirm the price reflects the number of images you are entering before you hit submit. 
  • You can save your submission as a draft and return later to complete the submission process.
  • If you realize you need to edit after you have already submitted, you will need to request a refund from Picter support. This will put your submission back into draft status, and you will have to resubmit it once you make the necessary edits.
  • No refunds will be granted after the contest deadline.

Friday Links: March 4, 2022

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Gabbo by Mike Maguire

In case you missed it, we announced the winners of our 16th annual photo contest last week. Congratulations again to all the winners and thank you to everyone who submitted to the contest! Stay tuned for updates about the show in the coming weeks. Whether you just discovered us recently or have been with us from the very beginning, we are so glad you’re part of this amazing community.