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In Frame: Best of 2015

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It’s been a great year of photography, and we’ve been thrilled to feature a ton of it here every Monday and Wednesday in our In Frame selections. Here are my top ten favorite In Frames from 2015. To have your work considered this year, submit your images to our Flickr pool or tag them #exposeddc on Instagram (and follow us here).

Don’t forget you have just a few more days to enter the 10th annual Exposed DC photo contest! Submit your best photographs from the D.C. area by midnight on January 6.

Beau Finley September 21st

https://instagram.com/p/7uBalFvqm7/

 

[Sharp] November 25th

Untitled by [Sharp]
Untitled by [Sharp]
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In Frame: September 28, 2015

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Wow. This is the best image I saw from the lunar spectacular—it’s a beautiful photograph. Photographer, Kaitlin Jencso, uses the whole frame to create a solemn moment. It’s more than just the moon. No, it’s not the actual eclipse but it captures essence of the gatherings I’ve seen on social media—people waiting for a rare event.

Review: FotoweekDC Contest Winners

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Image from Gossamer Thread series by Kaitlin Jencso
Image from Gossamer Thread series by Kaitlin Jencso

The 7th annual FotoWeekDC photography festival launched Friday at its 2014 headquarters, the Former Spanish Ambassador’s Residence. The impressive house had a moderate crowd, deafening music, women handing out long-stem red roses—that soon littered radiators and the floor—and kaleidoscoping lights (you probably saw them all over Instagram).

The launch party featured a few formal exhibitions, along with the winners of their annual contest. FotoWeek has often relegated the contest and local content to an afterthought, so it’s not too much of a surprise to find the contest winners exhibited as such. The images were small and poorly printed, pasted onto black foam core and arranged in a grid. The elementary presentation gave the impression that they ran out of time to finish the installation. (Needless to say, they certainly weren’t meant to be seen during the party under dim colored strobe lights; the other exhibits stayed under gallery lighting.)

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