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Winning Photos of our 13th Annual Exposed DC Contest

January 15, 2019 By Noe Todorovich

Thank you to everyone who submitted to this year’s contest for sharing your work with us! Every year we enjoy seeing this city of ours come alive through your photography which showcases its people, places, art, music, sports, and everything in between. We’re proud to feature local photographers of all levels whose images, as seen together, tell the story of living in the Washington, D.C. area. You can find the complete list of winners below. More details about the exhibition and opening reception are available here.

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 to our daily features, coming out to happy hours, and being part of our other activities through the year.

Speaking of happy hours, join us tonight at 801 Restaurant and Bar from 6-8 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. and toast to the winners of the contest!

Save the date for the opening of the Exposed DC Photography Show on Wednesday, February 13 at Touchstone Gallery. We are thrilled to partner with Touchstone Foundation for the Arts to bring our 13th annual exhibition to an awesome, artist-owned gallery located in downtown Washington, D.C. since 1976. We’ll have more details on the exhibit and opening soon, but for now, please join us in congratulating the 2019 Exposed DC winners…

Kanayo Adibe – The Tree Amigos
Kanayo Adibe – Here Lies …
Nadia Adona – U Street Cut
LeRoy Armstead – I Know He Will Call
Kirth Bobb – My Neighbour
Robert Cannon – Grecian Urn
Miles Carter – McPherson Square
Shamila Chaudhary – The Fort
Scott Cook – Moke
Brett Davis – Young Patriot
Barry Dunn – Lone Skater
Ginny Filer – Library of Congress
Karon Flage – DC Summer Can Be Joyful
Gabrielle Gipson – Prismatic GLOW
Jimell Greene – Fort Reno at Dusk
Robb Hill – 4th of July
Miki Jourdan – Before The Bubble Burst
Mike Landsman – Caps Win The Cup!
Mike Landsman – Press and Protest
Joseph Leavitt – Electricity on the Hill
Zack Lewkowicz – The Swarm
Geoff Livingston – Pulse
Jenny Markley – Singing in the Rain
Jeffrey Morris – No Props
Angela Napili – All the Starlings Above
Erika Nizborski – Capitals Parade
Victoria Pickering – Pride
Victoria Pickering – The Temple Burn
Jean-Pierre Plé – Geometry Reimagined
Jean-Pierre Plé – Remembering the Light
David Posey – Standing Room Only
Eric Purcell – Love In Progress
Mukul Ranjan – Catharsis
Diriki Rice – Dazzle
Michael Ryan – Rock Creek
Susan Sanders – Parallax
Sofia Sebastian – Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C.
John Sonderman – Seeing Deeper
Carol Stalun – Ship Passing in the Morning
Chris Suspect – Hyattsville, MD
Christopher Thomas – Glass Half Full
Arpita Upadhyaya – Where’s the Capitol?
Kevin Wolf – Nuisance Flooding

Friday Links: February 9, 2018

February 9, 2018 By Noe Todorovich

Washington Auto Show by Victoria Pickering

Have you entered our annual contest yet? Submit your best images of the D.C. metro area by February 28 for the opportunity to have your work included in the show at Dupont Underground in May.

Tuesday the exhibition “Day to Night: In the Field with Stephen Wilkes” opens at National Geographic. Admission to the exhibit is $15, and there will also be a talk with Stephen Wilkes on Tuesday the 13th from 7:30-9:00 p.m, $25.
Kyler Zeleny has amassed more than 6,000 orphaned Polaroids and invites people to create fictional stories behind the images.
Jonathan Higbee seeks out human interaction with the urban environment in his street photography.
InterAction is accepting entries to its 16th Annual Photo Contest which seeks to illustrate innovative, effective, and inspiring efforts in international relief and development. The deadline for entries is April 6.
VSCO Voices, a six month grant program that provides mentorship and $20,000 in funding for creators dedicated to empowering marginalized communities in the United States, is accepting applications through March 4. This year’s project theme is home.
Driely Schwartz has photographed the likes of Beyoncé, Kanye West, Questlove, and other popular celebrities. She shares some of her experience and advice in this interview with Forbes.
Google began selling its artificial intelligence Clips camera last week for $249. Its website says the camera is “smart enough to recognize great expressions, lighting and framing. So the camera captures beautiful, spontaneous images. And it gets smarter over time.” Google began marketing the camera for parents who take a lot of photos of their children.
“To satisfy an elitist, narrative fetish about ‘Trump Country’, photographers from outside have long ignored my region’s diversity.” Historian and Shenandoah Valley resident Elizabeth Catte sets out what people keep getting wrong about Appalachia.
Einstein’s Camera–how one renegade photographer is hacking the concept of time.
The New Yorker explores the bohemian rhapsody of Peter Hujar, who said of his portraiture work, “I like people who dare.”

Friday Links: January 12, 2018

January 12, 2018 By Noe Todorovich

Did you catch the exciting news? The 2018 Annual Photography Show will be held May 11-18 at Dupont Underground! We’re excited to celebrate local photography in a place with a fascinating history right in the heart of D.C. Since the date for the show is much later than usual, we’ve also extended the deadline for entries to Feb. 28. Additional information on the contest and show are available here.

Now on to your regularly scheduled programming…

Sad news for great local-ish events: LOOK3 is officially shutting down. The Charlottesville festival originated in a backyard gathering of photographers and expanded to the major bi- and sometimes tri-annual event featuring some of the most well-known photographers in the world.
Get down to the H Street NE neighborhood tonight for a couple of openings. Head to Gallery O on H to see Phantasm, “a photographic journey that twists and turns your imagination,” from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Then get to the Capital Fringe headquarters for The Community Collective Photography Showcase from 7 to 9 p.m.
Focus on the Story is a photo festival headed to DC in June. Chairperson is Exposed alum Chris Suspect, and they will have several big name speakers during the event.
Submit your best bird photos to the Audubon Photography Awards before April 2.
“Everyday DC,” an exhibition featuring 126 photos by students at D.C. Public Schools, opened at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery and will be on view through Jan. 31. The exhibit is sponsored by the Pulitzer Center and the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities.
Earlier this week, Kodak announced plans to launch an image rights management platform and a new cryptocurrency, KODAKCoin, to “empower photographers and agencies to take greater control in image rights management.”
The NYSEA Cold Shot Challenge may not be for the faint of heart. The contest celebrates winter surf culture and requires that all photos be taken between Jan. 4 and March 31 from land, air, or sea along the beaches and coastline from North Carolina up to Maine.
An exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada explores photographers’ extensive documentation of the California Gold Rush, mostly through daguerreotypes.

Winning Photos of our 11th Annual Exposed DC Contest

January 31, 2017 By Heather Goss

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!

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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The 2016 Exposed DC Winning Photographs!

January 13, 2016 By exposeddc

Has it really been a decade? And they said it wouldn’t last! Ok, maybe no one actually said that. Regardless, this year we celebrate the 10th annual Exposed DC Photography Show at the historic Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, home of our gracious hosts, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

Remember this? (Remember when we only knew you by your Flickr names?) When we started this photo contest and exhibit over at DCist in 2006, we had no idea we’d be doing it 10 years later, but seeing the way the already vibrant photography community has continued to grow over the years has been our biggest pleasure. We look forward to celebrating our anniversary in March with folks who’ve been around with us since the beginning and all the new faces that have joined us in the meantime.

Mark your calendars now for Thursday, March 10, when we’ll host the grand opening reception of this special 10th anniversary exhibit. Meanwhile tonight, January 13, join us upstairs at Jack Rose in Adams Morgan from 6 to 8 p.m. for our monthly happy hour to hang out with fellow photographers and fans, and on this occasion, to toast to the 47 winning photographs of the 2016 contest. Cheers!!

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