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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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Friday Links

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Chairs by Victoria Pickering
Chairs by Victoria Pickering

For this week’s roundup we have frightening images of factory farming, dogs from the past, marchers from the past, and cars from the past buried off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. Don’t worry, the baby tigers at the National Zoo are doing well, and will hopefully be in our future for a long time.

  • Former Exposed contest winner Bill Coyle won honorable mention in the Washington Post Travel photo contest for his image of Lake Powell. We are very excited for him, and happy that he learned about the contest through one of our Friday Links posts!
  • Mishka Henner stitched together satellite images to create very scary photographs of feedlots across the U.S. The waste from the industrial farms collects in pools, and the result is images that look like they were taken on another planet.
  • Phew! Our obsession with taking images of animals is not a new one. Check out these 29 vintage photographs of dogs.
  • LA based photographer Jason Knight has been documenting the abandoned car wreckage along a stretch of Mulholland Drive known as dead man’s curve.
  • A wild animal care center has opened in D.C. and this image of a baby hummingbird under their care is extremely adorable.
  • A New York City police officer has been indicted on charges of lying regarding the circumstances around the arrest of a photographer working for the New York Times.
  • The Washington City Paper shared a nice profile of photographer Michael Horsley and his images of 14th Street from the 80’s and 90’s.
  • Yay! The baby tigers born at the National Zoo this month are doing well and passed their first checkup. Completely squee worthy photos were the best part of the exam.
  • LIFE magazine shared previously unpublished images from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
  • To compliment that, we leave you with images from local photographer Matt Dunn of the anniversary march held this week.

Exposed Interview: Matt Dunn, STRATA Collective

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On its website, D.C. based STRATA Collective states that its photographers “seek to document the beauty, humor, mystery and absurdity in the quotidian.” We dug deeper into the group’s history and aims with founding member Matt Dunn.

Aziz Yazdani
Image by Aziz Yazdani

What does STRATA mean?

Strata is the Latin word for street.

Steve Goldenberg
Image by Steve Goldenberg

Why a collective? How did it form?

Aziz Yazdani organized some local DC street photographers to form a collective. The collective provides peer review, group marketing, resource sharing, as well as opportunities to hang out in pubs. Peer review is primarily in the form of image and image set critiques. STRATA, as a group, selects images and sequences them for a set. An image for STRATA needs to be selected by a majority of the group in order to be used in any of our online, printed or marketing materials. Our internal critiques are brutal but necessary to maintain our standard and foster individual growth. We believe that our group marketing efforts have a wider reach than could be achieved by any individual photographer. STRATA also shares resources. Everything from lenses, to lighting equipment, leads, contacts, hotels and ride sharing.

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