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As if picking the winning photographs for DCist Exposed over the last two years wasn't monumental enough of a task, you guys made it even tougher this year by turning out in record numbers. In our first year, we barely cracked 450 entries (and we were thrilled indeed), while in 2008, we reached over 550. This year more than 300 photographers submitted close to 800 images for us to sift through. Even with six judges, we had a hard time getting it down to just the photos listed below, but we can certainly say we had an amazing base to start from. If you have the time, it's worth going to Flickr and playing the slideshow of the whole pool, which runs just about two hours. (Maybe something to leave on the table and play when your out-of-town guests arrive this weekend?)
What made us settle on these 45 images? We chose images that—as six people familiar with this city—showed us a unique perspective. They captured moments where emotion jumped off the screen, often celebratory, but sometimes reflective or poignant. They were from photographers who woke up before dawn or stayed up very late while we slept comfortably, who looked up and down while the rest of us gazed on ahead, and who stood still and waited for the scene to come to them as we perhaps impatiently walked on. They show us in a new light the athletics, the music and arts, and, yes, sometimes even the monuments that Washington D.C. boasts so proudly.
Our winners should keep an eye on their email this evening, when we'll send them the pertinent details about printing and framing their work, and getting to the show on time. Our hosts at the Gallery at Flashpoint eagerly await the pieces of our exhibition, which will open to the public with a free reception on Friday, February 20 from 5 to 9 p.m. Read more information about Flashpoint after the jump. We're also bringing back the popular Emerge Exposed panel discussion this year, hosted by the Pink Line Project, on Tuesday, March 3. We'll announce more on that event soon.
A huge thank you to everyone for already making the 2009 Exposed bigger and better than ever. We hope you'll continue to submit your images daily to our regular Flickr pool, for use in our news posts and Photo of the Day. If you're wondering who all these people are behind the Flickr pseudonyms, check out a photographers' meet-up at Buffalo Billiards tomorrow starting at 6:30 p.m. I'll be there on the early side and will be happy to answer questions or just put a face to an oft-seen name.
Are you ready? Winners after the jump!
Logo by Lynne Venart; photo by Angela Kleis
King Mason -- untitled
mindgutter -- Silver Lightning
deadblackangel -- this guy said "no comment"
Hoffmann -- untitled
andyharnik -- Kiss
andyharnik -- Mass Baptism
sixoneseven -- untitled
Looking Sideways -- Subterranean
akkleis -- 083008-5-12
andertho -- Two Trains, L'Enfant Plaza
andertho -- Ice Skating, Archives
bbmcder94 -- Air Force Memorial
bsivad -- Coffee-Ceremony-2
cstein96 -- Target Practice
ccandumplins -- mia flies
philliefan99 -- the heron dance
Pak Gwei -- DC Pride Parade 2008
Aardvark_For_Freedom -- Dark Bridge
brandonwu -- Mount Pleasant fire #19
Aziz Y. -- Chinatown, D.C.
a nameless yeast -- take a bite out of the composition
erin m -- Harvest moon
PhotoFlashFocusRecord -- National Gallery of Art
maxedaperture -- The Vegas Lounge 10K
furcafe -- 67529-32
sduffy -- Election Eve in Manassas
ebreidy -- homeless
soleil1016 -- Old Waffle Shop
jim_darling -- Smoke break
jordangantz -- Bowling in Bethesda
stuzehner -- Dupont Pillow Fight
Sanjay Suchak -- Flags for Obama
adam dexter -- Moment
The Skipping Hippy -- Rapunzel's Tower
sally henny penny -- Dry Cleaner
rachelmoon -- japanese ladies waiting
mosley.brian -- T-Minus 10 Minutes to Lift Off
Brian Knight Photography -- A River Runs Through It
c00lmarie -- Downpour
Damon Green -- Middle Distance Runner
easement -- workers
corporatemonkey -- swing
Pianoman75 -- More Fountain Fun
pedestrian shots -- untitled
michael starghill -- Drexel @ Georgetown
About the Gallery at Flashpoint Program
The Gallery at Flashpoint is dedicated to nurturing artists, expanding their visibility and encouraging dialogue between artists and arts patrons. As a nonprofit gallery, Flashpoint provides a special opportunity for artists and curators to present new media, site-specific installations, performance pieces and other experimental forms free from the constraints of commercial expectations. An advisory panel of noted artists and arts professionals oversees the programming for the gallery and provides mentorship and support to exhibiting artists. The Gallery at Flashpoint, a Cultural Development Corporation project, is sponsored by Michael Abrams, the Abrams Family Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and Tim Hyde. Additional support is provided by the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, the Summit Fund and many other sponsors. Hotel Helix is Flashpoint’s 2008-2009 Hotel Partner. Barefoot Wine is Flashpoint’s 2008-2009 Wine Partner.
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congrats to the winners, but those people who got two photos in...i'm keeping an eye on you!
congrats
Forty-five images and not a single gratuitous beaver shot. Why does dcist hate women?
i hate women too, but i love beaver.
congrats to all the winners! keep up the good work.
Congrats everyone!
congrats to the winners!
great to see such fantastic work from "old-timers" and noobs alike - congrats to all! looking forward to seeing the prints up close and personal!!
well this contiunes DCist trend for "Photo of the Day" all year being chosen by people with no real photography experience. Take a look at the judges personal Flickr pages to see the quality of the people picking POTD and this show. Perhaps DCist should consider allowing someone that actually knows something about photography unlike Heather Goss to take charge of photography releated material on DCist.
perhaps, stwilers, you can direct us to your flickr page so we can judge the quality of your work, and thus, evaluate whether or not to take your comment seriously.
i'm guessing stwilers' shot of the Washington Monument didn't make the cut.
That was the Washington Monument? How'd he get it to look like a white marble speculum? And don't say "white marble speculum filter" because there is no such thing. Yet.
Actually, if you took the time to go through Heather's Photostream, you would notice she does GREAT work. I think you should look at her shots from the Udvar-Hazy museum a few months ago.
Oh, you didnt go past the first page? sorry.
Heather has amazing talent and runs a fine arts gallery called Ten Miles Square.
@stwilers: you suck. take your attitude somewhere else.
@the winners: congrats to everyone!
Nothing from Flickr user "Clownish"? Remember those creepy clown photos from last year?
dude. those were so creepy. awesome, but creepy.
I thought all clowns were creepy/evil...
Thanks for showcasing DC.
Stwilers: Where are you showing your work?
DCist staff - I hereby propose a DCist Troll Exposed contest to keep stwilers from throwing any more food off his high-chair.
perhaps monkeyrotica can come up with some rules?
James, that is HILARIOUS! If DCist ever starts a COTD (comedy of the day) selection based on how POTD is chosen you will be a shoe in!
1st RULE: You do not talk about TROLL CLUB.
2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about TROLL CLUB.
3rd RULE: If Sommer calls "racebaiting" or checks your IP address and sees you posting under a different name, the trolling is over.
4th RULE: Only two trolls to a fight.
5th RULE: One troll at a time, spewing the same hackneyed bull$h!t.
6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes, NO PANTS.
7th RULE: Trolling will NOT go on as long as it has to.
8th RULE: If this is your first night at TROLL CLUB, you NEED TO GET LAID.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Not for nothing, and I certainly not talking about the quality of their pictures, but two people getting two shots in kinda irks me. Not saying mine should be in their place nor that their two shots aren't good (they're, in fact, great).
But given the odds (45 out of 800) and the goal of Exposed to show off local artists, it seems counterproductive to give a photographer two shots instead of one.
My two cents and hopefully I'm not coming across as spiteful as stwilers.
Again, congrats to the winners.
HAHAHAHA
stwilers, you do realize that I can crosscheck your IP address and check to see if you've posted under another name here before, right?
Save yourself the embarrassment of being unmasked by me right here and don't comment again. I know exactly who you are, and I can't believe you'd be this stupid. If you continue to have a personal beef with Heather, me or DCist, you could have the decency to post under your real name, or hey, maybe even take it up with us directly, like a grown-up.
I'm sure that was a 'random' sample.
Anyways, here's a few for you to check out, which i'm sure you havent yet.
Playground
Udvar Hazy
lightning
Taj Mahal
And that was in a matter of seconds.
Dude, we get your point, but the lack of eloquence and unnecessarily aggressive tone is astonishing. I looked at your profile and these are the only comments you've made. Clearly you're a disgruntled photographer whose photo didn't get chosen for the contest and you didn't want to use your real DCist identity to vent your frustrations.
But you know what? What makes MovableType pretty interesting blogging software is that it publishes your entire IP address to the author. That means the author -- all of whom on DCist are rather tech savvy -- can do some pretty simple IP mapping and find out who you really are. So your anonymity game is somewhat childish and it has potentially threatened the existence of your legitimate account.
Well-written critiques are one thing and are very often respected, but insults are never constructive and are never paid any mind.
Very well played, Sommer and Yonas!
stwilers = FAIL + BAN
Congrats Winners.
Oh how I miss the DCist comments.
i bet you do!
you could always start a TwinCities-ist though.
Congratulations to all the winners! DC has some incredibly talented people :)
you wee twat you.
ah internet reactions you continue to amuse me so. )Sommer and Yonas, no duh, there are about 100 free proxy's out there if joke was to be taken literally. :-p
Deep down inside, I was hoping that some one had secretly snapped a photo of me and it was one of the winners. Perhaps, if I looked again....
damn, guess i missed some of the good stuff (i see a more than a few comments have already been removed).
First off congrats to all the winners!!! awesome pics. I disagree with the tone of stwilers but i think the dcist POTD feature has gone downhill significantly in the last year or so. There used to be some amazing pictures featured, now it's very hit or miss despite an incresingly strong flickr pool. Honestly some of the POTDs are terrible from any perspective, maybe that's what makes them art, but i guess i'm not hipster enough to understand that.
I guess you can't have andertho, terecio, {ryan}, kristeya, mvjantzen or any of the other top photographers in the pool featured everyday - but i do regularly notice a number of great shots passed over for some subpar photos.
Great selection for the show though, and can't wait to see the photos in print form.
Damn this thread is way better than cable...
CONGRATS to all the winners. I can't wait to see your work behind glass.
As the youngins say..."haters never prosper."
Very poor sportsmanship stwilers...
Congratulations to everyone. I went through the entire submission pool myself and I was amazed at how much local talent there is. You are all to be commended!