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Enter the 18th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest

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Photo by Carol Stalun

Photo by Carol Stalun

The 2024 Exposed DC Photography Contest is officially open! We want to see this city of ours through your eyes. Submit your favorite images of the Washington, D.C. metro area by January 31 for the chance to be part of our 18th annual photography exhibition. 

Winners of the contest will be featured in the 2024 Exposed DC Photography Show to be held in Spring or Summer 2024, with more details to be announced in April. You can check out this page to view opening wrap-up posts and winners announcements from previous shows. We are thrilled to kick off our 18th year of celebrating local photography with you all!

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. Important notes about the submission site are provided below to optimize your experience.  

Have any questions or comments? Check out these FAQs 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 along with the latest photography news. We’re also always looking for volunteers, so feel free to send us a note if you’d like to join the team! 

This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Submission Site Tips & Troubleshooting

  • 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.

Still having issues or have questions? Send us a message.

Enter the 14th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest

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Our 2020 photo contest is officially open for entries! Gather your best images showcasing life in the Washington, D.C. metro area and submit them by December 14 at 5 p.m. for a chance to be part of our 14th Annual Exposed DC Photography Show. That’s right; we extended the deadline a little bit to give you some extra time to submit!

Every year we enjoy seeing this city of ours come alive through your images of its people, places, art, music, sports, and everything in between. We can’t wait to celebrate another year of awesome local photography. Join us tonight at The Crown & Crow from 6-8 p.m. to kick off the contest at our monthly happy hour! A bonus for joining us: we’ll also be giving away two passes to the World Press Photo Exhibit opening at happy hour.

Rules and guidelines for entering the contest and participating in our exhibit are covered in the submission page. Please note that each submission costs $25 and includes up to four images, which you will add in the “Upload” step of the submission process. Please only select “Add another project” if you are entering more than one batch of photos to the contest.

If you’re looking for some inspiration, you can check out the winning images from previous years. Have questions or comments? Check out these FAQs, comment on this post, or chat with us at tonight’s happy hour. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter, if you don’t already, to get all our contest and exhibit updates. If you’d like to join our team as a volunteer, please drop us a line.

Please note that Picter strongly recommends using a recent version of either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to submit to the contest. Each submission consists of a project which can have up to four images that are added in the upload step.

Enter the 11th Annual Exposed DC Photography Contest!

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UPDATE:

We’re extending the deadline for our photo contest to January 25!

It occurred to us a little late that two important events are happening immediately after our regular contest deadline: The Presidential Inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington, not to mention the chaos that will engulf the metro area throughout the weekend. We’d like to include images from these events in our annual show in March, so you now have until midnight, January 25 to enter our contest.

If you’ve already entered: Don’t worry. You can exchange photos in the sets you’ve submitted. Or better yet, increase your chances of winning by entering a whole new set. Just do it by the 25th!

ANOTHER UPDATE: We’ll announce the details very soon, but we’re just finalizing a deal to print and frame the winning photos at no cost to the winners this year! Stay tuned…

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Enter the 11th Annual Exposed DC Photo Contest!

Our 2017 photo contest is open for entries! Next March we’ll host the 11th annual Exposed DC Photography Show, our celebration of living in the Washington, D.C. area. We want to see your images of the people and places, the art and music and food and sports, and the culture and nostalgia of this incredible town we live in. The District is too often reduced to a tourist destination or a political mud-pit – but those who live, work, and love here can rise above. The Exposed DC exhibit shows our city as only we know it.

The contest is geared towards photographers who don’t usually exhibit their work, but it is open to all – send in your terrific iPhone shot, or your sharp Leica photo. If you simply love taking pictures, this is your contest. You can submit your work until January 11, 2017, so if you don’t think you have the perfect shot just yet, you have plenty of time to go out and get it! Need inspiration? Check out the winners from our 10th anniversary exhibit.

Tonight, December 7, we’ll be upstairs at 801 Restaurant & Bar, 801 Florida Ave NW, to kick off the contest. Join us from 6 to 8 p.m. and meet the Exposed DC team, previous years’ winners, and all your fellow photography lovers.

Rules and guidelines for entering the contest and participating in our exhibit are covered in the submission page. Have questions or comments? Drop them in the comments on this post, or ask us tonight at 801, and subscribe to our newsletter for all our contest and exhibit updates. If you’d like to volunteer for our team, please drop us a line.

See you all tonight!