Logo by Lynne Venart; photo by Angela Kleis.
We know you’re busy finding your best photos to enter into the 2011 DCist Exposed Photography Contest. But we want to take a moment to commemorate not just a new exciting year of Exposed, but that 2011 marks five awesome years of our little photography show. Since 2006, DCist Exposed has featured some of the best local photography out there, showcasing images of Washington, D.C.’s unique culture, produced by the people who live and work here. So DCist, in collaboration with Ten Miles Square, are publishing a special Fifth-Year Anniversary magazine.
The magazine will feature the winners from the last four years, along with the winners that we’ll announce in January (even more incentive to enter!). The issue will be ready in time for 2011 Exposed opening night, and will be available for purchase both in person and online for $25 (or less — we’ll know better once we nail down exactly how many pages it will be), along with a free iPad version. We’re going to need a little help funding and gauging interest in this fairly massive project that will involve over 100 photographers — nearly all of whom have been featured regularly on this here website of ours.
We’ve decided to put our faith in Kickstarter, an online fundraising platform for art projects. At our project page, donors can pledge a certain amount – as little as $1 – and if the pledges fully fund our project by our deadline, January 23, huzzah! If we cannot raise that amount, we get nothing; an interesting all-or-nothing bet on how worthy our project is. We think publishing a definitive collection of real D.C. photography is indeed worthy, so we’re offering all kinds of rewards for your donation, too. If you pledge $25 or more, you’ll get a free copy of the magazine sent to your door — there are other rewards as you go up the donor scale, such as an 8×10 print of a winning Exposed photo, credit in the magazine and more.
We hope, like us, you’ll find this compilation of Washington, D.C. photography a worthy project, and are already dusting off the coffee table for your pre-ordered copy. Your donation will help us create and design the magazine, and let us reward the fantastic local photographers whose work we’re featuring in the collection.
If your photo was featured in one of the Exposed shows and you haven’t received an email from me about this (or you have, but haven’t answered yet and still want to participate), email me at heather [at] dcist.com and we’ll get you hooked up.
