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2015 Best in Show Winner: Messay Shoakena

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Messay Shoakena - Tango at Freedom Plaza
Tango at Freedom Plaza by Messay Shoakena

We’re proud to share the fifth and final Best In Show prize winner from the 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. We invited each member of a panel of distinguished D.C. metro-area editors and photojournalists to choose their favorite photograph from the 42 in this year’s exhibit. The five winning photographers will each receive a $100 cash prize from Exposed DC.

Advance tickets are still available for the opening reception this Thursday, March 12.

Today’s Best in Show winner is the splendid “Summer Tango” by Messay Shoakena. His photo was chosen by judge Randall Scott, owner of RandallScottProjects, a contemporary fine art gallery based in Baltimore, Maryland:

A very nice photograph that allows movement in anonymous subjects to relay feeling.

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2015 Best in Show Winner: Matt Dunn

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Matt Dunn - Museum Guard
Museum Guard by Matt Dunn

We’re proud to share the fourth of our five Best In Show prize winners from the 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. We invited each member of a panel of distinguished D.C. metro-area editors and photojournalists to choose their favorite photograph from the 42 in this year’s exhibit. The five winning photographers will each receive a $100 cash prize from Exposed DC.

We’ll be announcing the fifth and final winner tomorrow. Tickets are still available for the opening reception this Thursday, March 12!

Today’s Best in Show winner is the splendid “Museum Guard” by Matt Dunn. His photo was chosen by judge Evan Vucci, co-founder of Haptic Cinema, and a photojournalist for the Associated Press based in Washington, D.C.

I love this photo because at first glance it seems like a a whimsical photo, but as you look at it more it’s anything but.

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2015 Best in Show Winner: Denzil Spicer

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Denzil Spicer - Utz: Adams Morgan Bus Stop
Utz: Adams Morgan Bus Stop by Denzil Spicer

Today we present the third of our five Best In Show prize winners from the 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. We invited each member of a panel of distinguished D.C. metro-area editors and photojournalists to choose their favorite photograph from the 42 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 through Tuesday. Tickets are still available for the opening reception this Thursday, March 12!

Today’s Best in Show winner is the intriguing “UTZ: Adams Morgan Bus Stop” by Denzil Spicer. His photo was chosen by judge Cynthia Connolly, a photographer, curator, typographer and the Visual Arts Curator of Artisphere in Arlington, Virginia:

This was selected specifically because it exposes aspects of D.C. that are key in expressing the characteristics of our city. There’s solitude and loneliness with the young woman at the bus stop whose face is obstructed by the D.C. flag imagery. The many logos, images and cleanliness seen in this photograph are at-the-moment contemporary. For many who have lived here a long time, this was not always the way it was. A depiction of this bus stop perhaps 30 years ago would show a shelter with the weather worn plexiglas, and the background would be abandoned buildings of grey and black. Here we see color, the movement of business and people.

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2015 Best in Show Winner: Diriki Rice

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Diriki Rice - Oi Vape
Oi Vape by Diriki Rice

And now for the second of our five Best In Show prize winners from the 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. We invited each member of a panel of distinguished D.C. metro-area editors and photojournalists to choose their favorite photograph from the 42 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 through next Tuesday. Advance tickets are still available for the opening reception this Thursday, March 12.

Today’s Best in Show winner is the striking “Oi Vape” by Diriki Rice. Congratulations Diriki! His photo was chosen by judge Lauren Stockbower, a veteran picture editor, photojournalist and educator in the D.C. area:

An intriguing portrait of a skater, whose face is only partially visible because of the long, twirling, and mysterious cloud of –vapor. The shadowy graffiti-laden background at the Bridge Skate Park in SW adds to the mood. Vaping looks way cool.

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2015 Best in Show Winner: Kashif Javaid

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Kashif Javaid - This reminded me of Diane Arbus
This reminded me of Diane Arbus by Kashif Javaid

We debuted Best in Show awards last year and they proved to be such a popular addition to the contest, we were eager to bring them back for our 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show. Of the 42 photographs in this year’s exhibit, five have been recognized by a panel of distinguished D.C. metro-area editors and photojournalists. The five winning photographers will each receive a $100 cash prize from Exposed DC.

We’ll be announcing the winners daily through next Tuesday.

This year’s first Best in Show recipient is the superb “This reminded me of Diane Arbus” by Kashif Javaid. Well done Kashif! His photo was chosen by judge Susana Raab, a fine-art and documentary photographer working in Washington, D.C. She told us (before she know what Kashif titled it):

I selected this image because of its simplicity and the unusualness of the moment found within an everyday scene.  I love how the awkwardness of the girl’s arms caught inside her coat and the gesture of her hands over her eyes creates an allegorical image – a blank canvas ripe for projection.  The photograph has a Diane Arbusian appeal within its discomfort and tension.  I think the photographer was successful in transforming the ordinary into an iconic image. [Read more…]