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Welcome to DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Celebrating Stories, Well Told . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Get Inspired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The Festival Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2018 focus on the story award winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Festival Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

eyeem 72-Hour photo challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Gear Loans From Tamron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Opening Night party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

saturday sunrise photo shoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Capital Pride Parade Photo Walk with FUJIFILM . . . . . . . . 25

Exhibition Opening & Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Keynote Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Speakers & Workshop Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

8 DC Scenes to Photograph Besides the National Mall . . . . . 41

Thank You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44


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What if you reached out to some of the biggest names in photography and asked them if they would come to D.C. to speak at a photography festival that, at the time, didn’t actually exist?And what if, remarkably, they said yes?

Well, for one, you’d be thrilled. At least for a few minutes. And then you might get a little dizzy, thinking about all the work that needed to be done to actually pull it all off.

And, indeed, the past year has been a thrilling and, at times, dizzying experience. I’m not going to lie, we didn’t really know what we were getting into – and on more than one occasion, we made up things as we went along.

But all of the planning, organizing and hard work has gotten us to this – the first of what we hope will be a long and successful run of photography festivals, celebrating the art of visual storytelling.

We’re extremely proud of the program that we’ve created for you — not only for its star power but for the diversity of voices that you’ll see on stage this weekend.

We hope you leave this weekend inspired, entertained and fired up to create your own stories.

Welcome to DC

Joe Newman, CEO


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An image with a well-told story is the stuff of dreams for photographers – so much that we’ve devoted an entire weekend towards celebrating the art of photography and the stories behind the images.The motivation behind the first-ever Focus on the Story International Photo Festival is simple: convene an influential and devoted community of photography lovers for a tour de force series of dialogues, workshops and events celebrating the power of the image.

While the storied and iconic buildings and memorials of Washington, D.C. provide the perfect backdrop for us, you will find throughout the festival that the images and conversations will also take you around the world – from Asia and the Middle East to Africa and the Caribbean.

How best to tell these stories? What does the photographic lens offer that other forms of expression do not? How does the image have an impact in the world? We will tackle these and other big questions with the most legendary and influential names in photography.

We are honored that you have decided to join us to learn, explore, and celebrate a complex and rapidly changing world through photography.

The weekend’s agenda is packed with opportunities to discuss, socialize, network, and most of all, have fun. We look forward to getting to know you better, both behind the camera and in front of it, while we pursue our common passion of celebrating stories, well told.

Celebrating Stories, Well Told

Shamila N . Chaudhary, Executive Director


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Get Inspired

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Focus on the Story Festival. What started as an idea among a few photography enthusiasts in Washington, D.C., has blossomed into a full 3-day festival that has attracted some of the best photographic talent in the world.The idea behind the festival is to create an event that celebrates the stories of and by photographers. Whether it’s about their personal career, a specific body of work, or an advocacy project, we want to know what inspires these people in hopes their experiences will also inform our own photographic journeys. The second concept, and perhaps even more important, is that we want to build a strong international community around the art of photography that will hopefully transcend well beyond the event.

To that extent, we have gathered a wide swath of artists under one roof. We have conceptual artists, portraitists, photojournalists, documentarians, street photographers, curators, and publishers. From lectures, panel discussions, workshops, portfolio reviews and photo walks, all of our guests will be presenting and engaging with you the attendees.

One of the things I have learned in my own photographic process is that it is important to maintain an open mind to all kinds of photography and art. I have often found myself surprised and inspired by how people use photography to express their own views and ways of seeing. This in turn has influenced the way I see and present my own work. I liken this kind of interaction to an ongoing visual conversation that, at its best, propels the medium forward with fresh takes and new ideas.

It’s not every day that you have this level of talent gathered in one space. Don’t be shy. Take advantage of this! Network, ask questions, show your work, introduce yourself, make new friends, and make future plans. And above all else, make sure to take time to enjoy yourself.

Chris Suspect, Festival Chair


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The Festival Team

Joe Newman, CEO Shamila N . Chaudhary, Executive Director

Chris Suspect, Festival Chair

Mona E . Avalos, Festival Manager

Tim Hill, Web and Print Designer

Mike Lee, Writer

Chantale Wong, Finance Chair

Kirth Bobb, Logistics Chair


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2018 focus on the story award winners

Alain Schroeder’s image of a blood-splattered father and son taken during a ceremonial procession in Hyderabad won the Best Single Image Award.

One of the things that we asked entrants in the inaugural Focus on the Story Awards to do was to show us compelling stories that explored the human condition. Hundreds of entries answered the call but, after two rounds of judging, it was clear there was one photographer who rose above the crowd.Belgian photojournalist Alain Schroeder not only won the top prize for Best Single Image but he also tied with James Whitlow Delano, who is based in Tokyo, for the top prize for Best Series.

Alain’s series of images from 2016 shining a light on the struggles of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar was the co-winner of the Best Series Award. James’ series from 2017 on the human toll of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s extrajudicial war on the drug trade shares the Best Series Award. Alain and James elected to split the top prize in Best Series, rather than force a tiebreaker. They each received $750 for their work. Alain also received $1,000 for the Best Single Image for his photo of a blood-splattered father and son taken during a ceremonial procession in Hyderabad, India.

In addition, judges singled out two of Alain’s other entries in the Single Image category. His image of a woman sleeping on the ground in Calcutta was a runner-up,


Alain Schroeder

and his image of two men training in Kushti, an ancient and traditional type of Indian wrestling, received an honorable mention.

We’re honored to recognize and support both Alain and James for their important documentary work. Thanks also goes out to our esteemed jurors, Svetlana Bachevanova, publisher at FotoEvidence, acclaimed documentarian Ed Kashi, and former National Geographic photo editor Elizabeth Cheng Krist, as well as to our competition partner, LensCulture, which helped us manage and promote the contest.

Best Series Runners Up

Manel Quiros, Edinburgh, Scotland

Best Series Honorable Mention

Tom Atwood, Bronx, New York

Best Single Image

Alain Schroeder, Brussels Belgium

Best Single Image Runners Up

Babajide Adeniyi-Jones, Silver Spring, Maryland

Andy Hann, Los Angeles, California

Miki Iwamura, Brooklyn, New York

Alain Schroeder, Brussels, Belgium

Best Single Image Honorable Mention

Marcie Rich, California

Alain Schroeder, Brussels, Belgium

James Whitlow Delano

The Winners

Best Series (tie) Alain Schroeder is a Belgian photojournalist who has won many international awards and participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide. He is also the founder of Reporters, a well-known photo agency in Belgium. He is represented in Paris by the photo agency HEMIS.James Whitlow Delano is a documentary photographer based in Japan. His work has been published and exhibited throughout the world and has led to four award-winning monograph photo books. He has won numerous awards and in 2015, founded the EverydayClimateChange (ECC) Instagram feed, where photographers from 6 continents document global climate change on 7 continents.


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The Festival Schedule

Friday, June 89:30–9:45 a.m.

Kenney AuditoriumWelcome to #FOTSfest18

Festival Chairman Chris Suspect with opening remarks; what to expect over the next three days and how to get the most out of your time in D.C.

10–11 a.m. Kenney Auditorium

Build the Wall or Tear it Down? How Visual Storytelling Shapes American Identity

Visual artists Kara Frame, Muriel Hasbun and Griselda San Martín will talk about establishing connection and empathy while creating counter-stories–often unseen and untold narratives that give us a more complete picture of who lives in our communities. Festival Executive Director Shamila N. Chaudhary will moderate.

10 a.m.–1 p.m. Room 417

Crafting Compelling Narratives: Open Critique Session

In Day 2 of their workshop, instructors André Chung, Carl Juste and Pablo Martinez Monsivías will review and critique the images that participants created during their Day 1 assignment. Edits will be done in a group setting so that all participants and observers can benefit from the process of learning how to approach their work and process critically.

11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Kenney Auditorium

Tatiana Gulenkina: Focus on the Process–Contemporary Photographic Practices

Drawing on her own experience working with camera-less printing techniques in a color darkroom, Tatiana will dive into the new directions in contemporary fine-art photography and look at behind-the-scenes processes and inspirations that drive creativity when seemingly everything has been done before.


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Friday, June 8 (cont’d)

1–2 p.m. Kenney Auditorium

WPOW: The Emotional Toll of Visual Storytelling

The Emotional Toll of Visual Storytelling is a panel discussion organized by the Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW). Join a panel of women photojournalists and filmmakers as they share their long-term projects, discuss the emotional toll, and offer methods for staying balanced.

2: 15–3:15 p.m. Kenney Auditorium

Endia Beal: Can I touch It?

Endia’s talk will include a brief retrospective of four bodies of work including Office Scene, Can I Touch It?, 9 to 5, and Am I What You’re Looking For? Endia’s work merges fine arts with social injustice. She uses photography to reveal the often overlooked and unappreciated experiences unique to people of color.

3:30–4:45 p.m. Kenney Auditorium

Julie Winokur: Visual Storytelling and Advocacy

Julie will discuss how she uses innovative visual collaborations that maximize talent and resources. The talk will center around her ongoing project, Newest Americans, which focuses on immigration and identity.

7–10 p.m. Gallery O on H

Street, 1354 H St NE

Opening Night Party

Help us kick off a great weekend of photography with drinks, appetizers and two exhibits at Gallery O on H Street. Mingle with some of our featured speakers and help us celebrate our inaugural photo festival.


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Saturday, June 95:20–8 a.m.

Lincoln MemorialFotoDC Sunrise Photo Shoot with Angela B. Pan

FotoDC is sponsoring a special sunrise photo shoot at the Lincoln Memorial with award-winning landscape photographer Angela B. Pan.

9:45–10:45 a.m. Kenney Auditorium

Xyza Cruz Bacani: Singapore Runaways

Xyza presents her work documenting the life of migrant workers in Singapore. The work is part of her global project “Modern Slavery,” which looks at the intersections of migration and human rights. This project is supported by the Pulitzer Center.

10–11 a.m. Room 417

Jarob Ortiz: Large Format Photography in a Digital World

Jarob, who documents America’s endangered heritage sites for the National Park Service will talk about large format film photography and whether it has a future in this digital age

11 a.m.–12 p.m. Kenney Auditorium

Aperture Conversations: Duane Michals with Chris Boot

Aperture Foundation Executive Director Chris Boot talks with photographer Duane Michals about his celebrated career.

12–1 p.m. Lobby

Urban Cave: Book Signing with Andrea Star Reese

Andrea Star Reese will be signing her book, Urban Cave, a seven-year documentary reportage on unsheltered men and women living underground in New York City.


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Saturday, June 9 (cont’d)

1–2 p.m. Kenney Auditorium

Maggie Steber: Igniting the Imagination

Maggie will talk about igniting your imagination by giving yourself permission to play. She will show her Guggenheim-funded project, The Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma, and discuss how to make a safe place for yourself and play with ideas, using photography as a medium for expression.


Martin Parr: Photobiography

Martin talks about his long career in photography.

3:40–4:20 p.m. Lobby

Martin Parr Book Signing

Martin will sign books, including Life’s a Beach, The Non-Conformist and the Martin Parr Coloring Book!, which are on sale at the Festival Bookstore.

3:45–6 p.m. Courtyard

Capital Pride Parade Photo Walk with Fujifilm

Meet in the front courtyard and then head out to photograph the Capital Pride Parade with the FUJIFILM Team.

7–9:30 p.m. Lost Origins

Gallery, 3110 Mt Pleasant St NW

Opening Reception for “Gratuity Included”

An exhibit of work by internationally-recognized documentary and street photographer Chris Suspect.


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Sunday, June 109:30–10:30 a.m.

Kenney AuditoriumSalwan Georges: An Iraqi Journey in America

Salwan presents his work for the Washington Post in documenting the lives of an ordinary Arab-American Muslim family. Aiming to demystify people who at times had been characterized as a threat to America, Georges found the Almuna family in Michigan, a couple raising three sons in the midwest. James Estrin, co-editor of the New York Times’ Lens Blog, will moderate.

11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Kenney Auditorium

Building and Sustaining the Dream Project

A conversation regarding the making, organizing, and producing of Iris PhotoCollective’s first book, “Havana and Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community.” This panel includes photojournalists Carl Juste, the project leader, and Luis Rios, the project editor, along with photojournalists André Chung, C.W. Griffin, Carol Guzy and Pablo Martinez Monsivías, and syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. Lissette Mendez, director of the Miami Book Fair, will moderate.


Joel-Peter Witkin: Visual Stories

Joel-Peter Witkin talks about his art.


Brian Griffin: From Post Punk to New Wave

Brian will talk about how he managed to produce iconic photographs for album covers and single sleeves through the Post Punk, New Wave and New Romantic periods of popular music of the late 70’s and 80’s.

3:50–5 p.m. Kenney Auditorium

Closing Session: Live Judging of the EyeEm 72-Hour Challenge

Live judging of the EyeEm 72-hour Challenge by instructors from Photoworks at Glen Echo.


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eyeem 72-Hour photo challenge

Explore the nation’s capital with your camera and enter your best shots in our live photo competition. There’s no theme to this free contest – just make the best image you can, whether it’s street, landscape, portrait or anything in between.This competition is open to all challengers—you do not have to be registered for the festival to participate.

Just shoot photos in the D.C. metro area from Thursday until Sunday morning. Upload your entries to EyeEm.com by 9 a.m. Sunday, tagging them #EyeEmDC. If you don’t have an EyeEm.com account, you can create one for free.

EyeEm.com is the world’s largest photo-sharing community, connecting 20 million creators with the world’s leading brands.

Photography instructors from Glen Echo Photoworks will judge the contest live during the festival’s closing session.

1st place wins a FUJIFILM instax SHARE SP-2 printer and film and a package of gear from Black Rapid valued at more than $200.

2nd place wins a FUJIFILM instax SHARE SP-2 printer and film.

3rd place wins a $130 credit from Moment (shopmoment.com).

This confrontation with an anti-LGBTQ “preacher” during the Capital Pride Parade was a runner up in our recent photo contest © Eric Purcell


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Credit: Itsuka Yakumo / Tamron (taken with the 28-75mm f2.8 Di III RXD)

Be sure to stop by the Tamron table in the exhibit area and check out their exciting lineup of lenses. But don’t just look – borrow one for free and see what you can do with it. This is the perfect opportunity to be one of the first people to try the just released 28-75mm f2.8 Di III RXD for Sony E-mount, which “strikes a beautiful balance between vibrant image quality, superb bokeh, compact size and lighter weight.”

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Opening Night party

Friday, June 87 p.m. – 10 p.m., Gallery On H Street, 1354 H Street Northeast

Kick off a great weekend of photography with open bar, appetizers, two exhibits and music by DJ Baby Alcatraz. Mingle with some of our featured speakers and help us celebrate our inaugural photo festival.See the winners of the 2018 Focus on the Story Awards and an exhibit of work from the Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW).

You can find out more about the Focus on the Story Awards on page XX

The WPOW Juried Show features the work by its members. The annual exhibition showcases the stories and lives of women, in women’s voices. The show was judged by Diana Markosian, Jenn Poggi and Maggie Steber.

The featured photographers and videographers include: Alexandra K. Dietz, Astrid Riecken, Aubrey Gemignani, Amy Toensing, Carol Guzy, Cheriss May, Claire Harbage, Gabriella Demczuk, Gabriela Bulisova, Jacquelyn Martin, Katherine Frey, Kate Warren, Lise Metzger, Melina Mara, Mary F. Calvert, Susana Raab, and Sarah L. Voisin, Kara Frame and Aude Guerucci.

The WPOW 2017 Annual Juried show opened in November 2017 and has been on tour to colleges and universities across the country.

Note: To get to Gallery O via D.C.’s public transit, take the Metro Red Line to Union Station and then catch the free DC Streetcar, which runs about every 15 minutes along the H Street corridor. To find the streetcar, head up the escalators Union Station and follow the signs that lead out to the H Street streetcar stop. Get on the streetcar and get off at either the 13th or 14 street stops.


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saturday sunrise photo shoot

© Angela B. Pan.

Saturday, June 95:20 a.m.–8 a.m., Lincoln Memorial

Join award-winning landscape photographer Angela B. Pan for a sunrise photo shoot sponsored by FotoDC at the Lincoln Memorial (Sunrise is at 5:42 a.m.)We’ll meet at the steps of the memorial with coffee and Krispy Kreme! A lot of great opportunities from there -- shoot the Washington Monument from the end of the reflecting pool or from behind the columns of the Lincoln Memorial, or move over to the Vietnam or Korean war memorials.

Voted “Best Visual Artist in Washington, D.C.” by the Washington City Paper two years in a row, Angela has published photographs of the capital in the Washington Post, The White House Historical Association, and more. Her work has been featured in local galleries and publications of Apple, Lionsgate and several luxury hotels.

She has also just published a guide to photographing D.C. You can find her book, SNAP DC, on Amazon.


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Capital Pride Parade Photo Walk with FUJIFILM

Angela Napili’s photo won our recent Capital Pride photo contest.

Saturday, June 93:45 p.m. – 6 p.m. • Dupont and Logan Circle neighborhoods

There may be no event more fun to photograph in the District than the annual Capital Pride Parade, which will pass just two blocks away from the Focus on the Story International Photo Festival. More than 200 contingents of floats, marchers and dancers will turn the 1.5 mile route through the Dupont and Logan Circle neighborhoods into a celebration of DC’s LGBTQ+ community. Head out with the FUJIFILM team to capture the festivities.

We’ll meet in the front courtyard of festival location and then make our way to the parade route.

Gear UpStop by the FUJIFILM exhibit and check out the FUJIFILM X Series lineup of lenses and cameras. See something you’d like to try? Borrow it for free and use it during the Capital Pride Parade Photo Walk.


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Exhibition Opening & Reception

© Chris Suspect

Saturday, June 97–11 p.m. • Lost Origins Gallery, 3110 Mt. Pleasant St. NW, Washington, D.C. • Gratuity Included

What happens when people throw their inhibitions to the wind and are freed from all of society’s constraints and morals? For the last 7 years, Chris Suspect has been photographing some of the wildest and strangest parties and events you have ever seen. He captures raw emotion, crazy antics, fights, sex, drugs and all forms of outrageousness that goes beyond the pale.

Whether it’s in the barrios of Bogota, Columbia, hotel room parties in Germany, or right here in Washington, D.C., Suspect has a knack for uncovering the unseemly, the humorous and shocking.

Gratuity Included will be on display during Focus on the Story International Photo Festival. There will be a special reception on Saturday, June 9 at 7:00 p.m. for all festival attendees.


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Martin parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. With over 100 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his photographic legacy is already established. Parr also acts as a curator and editor. He has curated two photography festivals, Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010. More recently Parr curated the Barbican exhibition, Strange and Familiar. Parr has been a member of the Magnum

agency since 1994 and was President from 2013 – 2017. In 2013 Parr was appointed the visiting professor of photography at the University of Ulster.Parr’s work has been collected by many of the major museums, from the Tate, the Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Martin Parr established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017.

2:15 p.m., Saturday

joel-peter witkin is an American artist whose constructed photographs depict macabre, often grotesque scenes. Working in the vein of the earlier photographers Henry Peach Robinson and Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Witkin carefully builds scenes with cadavers, hermaphrodites, and dwarfs which introduce literary, religious, and art historical allusions. Today, his works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National

Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The artist currently lives and works in Albuquerque, NM.

1:15 p.m., Sunday

Keynote Speakers


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Svetlana Bachevanova is a longtime photo-journalist and publisher at FotoEvidence, a publisher and activist organization that supports documentary photography focused on human rights and social justice. The FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo recognizes one photographer whose work demonstrates courage and commitment in the pursuit of social justice.

Chris Boot became executive director of Aperture Foundation in 2010. Previously, he was director of London’s Photo Co-op (since renamed Photofusion), an independent photography education center; director of Magnum Photos, first in London, and then in New York; and editorial director at Phaidon Press. He is the author and editor of Magnum Stories (Phaidon, 2004).

Xyza Cruz Bacani was a domestic worker in Hong Kong when her street photography was “discov-ered” on Facebook. She has since become a rising documentary photographer, winning grants from Magnum, the Pulitzer Center and Open Society. She was named one of the BBC’s 100 Women of the World 2015 and is currently a FUJIFILM ambassador.

Endia Beal is a North Carolina based artist, educator and activist, who is internationally known for her photographic narratives and video testimonies that examine the personal, yet contemporary stories of women of color working within the corporate space. Beal currently serves as the Director of Diggs Gallery and Assistant Professor of Art at Winston-Salem State University.

Speakers & Workshop Leaders


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Shamila N . Chaudhary is a foreign policy analyst and avid photographer. She is senior advisor to the Dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a senior South Asia fellow at New America. She served on the White House National Security Council as Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan during the Obama administration.

Elizabeth Cheng Krist was a long-time photo editor with National Geographic where she curated Women of Vision. She has judged for POYi, Getty Instagram, Aftermath, and the RFK Journalism Awards. She has won awards from POYi, Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts and has taught for the Santa Fe Workshops, Syracuse University, CUNY, and Columbia University.

André Chung is a freelance photographer, formerly of the Baltimore Sun where he received the prestigious George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journal-ism Award. He also was one of a select group of photojournalists chosen in 2009 and 2013 to work on The Official Inaugural Book for President Barack Obama.

Scott Davis teaches large format and historic photo processes at Glen Echo Photoworks, specializing in platinum/palladium printing. He has been published in Metropolitan Home, Art In America, Hallowed Ground: The Journal of the Civil War Trust, and Metalsmith, among others, and has had his work exhibited across the US and internationally.



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James Estrin is a senior staff photographer for the New York Times. He is also a co-editor of the Times’s photography platform, Lens. He has worked for the Times since 1987 and was part of a Pulitzer Prize winning team in 2001.

Kara Frame is a video producer at NPR. Based out of Washington, D.C., she pursues personal projects in her free time, often focusing on issues surrounding veterans and women. Kara graduated with a masters of art in New Media Photojournalism from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University.

Michelle Frankfurter is a documentary photographer who has been recognized, published and exhibited worldwide. In 1995, a long-term project on Haiti earned her two World Press Photo awards. Since 2000, Frankfurter has concentrated on the border region between the United States and Mexico and on themes of migration.

Gabriella Demczuk is an award-winning Lebanese-American photographer, printmaker and journalist. She was named Photoboite’s 30 Under 30 Women Photographers, Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation, a finalist for the Inge Morath award from the Magnum Foundation and Emerging Talent at Getty Reportage. She was recently named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers of 2018.



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Salwan Georges, an Iraqi-American staff photo-journalist at the Washington Post, based in Washington, D.C. Georges started his career as a staff photographer at the Detroit Free Press. In 2016, he was named Multimedia Photographer of the Year in Michigan.

Brian Griffin is a British photographer whose work led the British Journal of Photography to call him “the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last decades.” His iconic album covers and music photography include work for Elvis Costello, Billy Idol, Depeche Mode, Iggy Pop and the Psychedelic Furs, among others.

C .W . Griffin has taught at the University of Miami for 12 years and has been a Miami Herald staff photogra-pher for the past 28 years. He is the recipient of numerous awards and, while serving in the military, he was the first African-American photographer to be named Military Photographer of the Year.

Tatiana Gulenkina is a Russian-born photogra-pher and visual artist based in Washington, DC. She employs both digital technology and traditional dark-room equipment, as well as video and mixed media. Her work has been featured in the British Journal of Photog-raphy, Harper’s Magazine, The Week, Wired, Juxtapoz, and other publications.



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Carol Guzy won four Pulitzer Prizes during her career with the Washington Post and Miami Herald, the only journalist ever to do so. She has been named Photographer of the Year for the National Press Photographers Association three times and eight times for the White House News Photographers Association.

Muriel Hasbun is an artist and educator who focuses on issues of cultural identity, migration and memory. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Museum of the Americas, District of Columbia Art Bank, En Foco, Lehigh University, Museo del Barrio and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

David Hobby is a former photojournalist who has become one of the web’s leading photographic lighting authorities. His website, Strobist.com, has taught millions of readers how to improve their use of off-camera lights. He teaches lighting classes around the world and has recently begun leading on-location travel workshops.

Carl Juste has carried out extensive assignments for the Miami Herald in conflict zones and has received numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He is a co-founder of Iris Photo Collective, which explores and documents the relation-ship of people of color to the world.



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Karen Keating is Executive Director of Pho-toworks, Inc. at Glen Echo Park, a photography educa-tion center, where she also teaches. She is a member emeritus at Multiple Exposures Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria; member of the Society of Photographic Educators. She recently self-published her first photog-raphy book, “Cubans: Watching and Waiting.”

Na’ama Batya Lewin is a photographer and multimedia video artist whose work has been exhibited across the U.S., including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley and the International Center of Photography in NYC. She teaches at Photoworks and was photo faculty at the Corcoran School of Art at George Washington University.

duane michals is a pioneer in creating photo-graphic narratives by using sequential frames, incorpo-rating text with his images and the use of multiple exposures. Over the course of his career, he has taken portraits of influential artists such as Andy Warhol, René Magritte, and Marcel Duchamp. His works are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, among others.

Pablo Martinez Monsivías is a staff photojournalist for the AP’s Washington Bureau, where he primarily covers the office of the President and various administrations. In 1999, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for team coverage of the impeachment during the Clinton Administration.



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Jarob Ortiz was hired in August 2016 to his dream job, large format photographer for the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Services. The job was billed by some as the “Ansel Adams” job since its duties were similar to those that the legendary Adams per-formed under a contract with the Department of Interior.

Angela B . Pan was voted “Best Visual Artist in Washington, D.C.” by the Washington City Paper two years in a row. She has published photographs of the capital in the Washington Post, The White House Historical Association, and more. Her work has been featured in local galleries and publications of Apple, Lionsgate and several luxury hotels.

Leonard Pitts Jr . was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004 for columns he wrote for the Miami Herald. His columns offer insightful commen-tary on the American experience, particularly the African-American experience. He is the author of the bestselling book Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.

Moriah Ratner studies photojournalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She received WPOW’s 2018 Lena Grant and 2017 Virginia News Photographers Associa-tion George Smith Memorial Scholarship. Moriah is an alum of the Eddie Adams Workshop and was accepted to the New York Times 2018 Portfolio Review.



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Andrea Star Reese is documentary photogra-pher based in New York and Jakarta. She has received many awards for work, including The Lucie Award - Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year in 2016. Her project, Urban Cave, which followed men and women living underground in New York City was published in 2015 by FotoEvidence.

Luis Rios is a national award-winning editor whose editing work is highlighted by two Pulitzer Prizes, a RFK Photojournalism Award, two Scripps Howard Photojour-nalism Awards and several National Headliners and World Press photography awards. He is the director of photography at the San Antonio Express-News.


Gayle Rothschild began her teaching career at Photoworks in 1983, also teaching at Trinity and Montgomery Colleges and Visual Arts in Rockville. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally and her photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, and the Corcoran Museum of Art.

Griselda San Martin is a Spanish documenta-ry photographer based in New York City. She is interested in in-depth stories exploring trans-national issues focusing on borders, cultures, and identities, and challenging the popular assumptions that dominate media discourses.


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Maggie Steber has worked in 64 countries focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and social stories. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence and a World Press Photo prize. She is known for documenting Haiti’s social and political upheaval over three decades, while still showing the beauty and resilience of the Haitian people.

Chris Suspect is a street and documentary photographer who has been exhibited at various venues in the U.S. and internationally. His documentary work on the underground music scene in Washington, D.C., was published as a book, Suspect Device, in 2014.

Poh Si Teng is an Emmy-nominated director and senior commissioning produce at Al Jazeera English (International). She looks after documentary commis-sions from the Americas for WITNESS, the channel’s award-winning flagship character-led observational strand. She also worked at The New York Times, where she received awards for her documentary, Flirting With the Islamic State.

Julie Winokur has been a storyteller for over two decades, first as a magazine writer and then as a documentary filmmaker. She launched Talking Eyes Media in 2002 as a way to focus on creating visual media that catalyzes positive social change. Her current projects include Newest Americans, which examines immigration and identity.



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8 DC Scenes to Photograph Besides the National Mall

Why put together a list of DC scenes to photograph besides the National Mall? There is so much more to see and photograph in the DC area beyond these tourist favorites. The region is ripe with incredible architecture, cool neighborhoods, and even amazing natural vistas.With that in mind, let’s show you a little of what the city has to offer. Whether you favor street, nature, or travel photography, there is something in here for you.

The National Cathedral (above)Both inside and out, this cathedral offers a taste of Europe with incredible buttresses and more traditional gothic architecture.

Shaw (left)If you are looking for murals, hipsters and cool neighborhoods, make sure you check out Shaw.

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Great FallsGreat Falls offers beautiful nature vistas with wonderful hiking just north of the Beltway on both the Maryland and Virginia sides of the Potomac River.

Old Town, AlexandriaOld Town Alexandria is filled with lovely federal style town homes, boutique shops, and its own small but scenic waterfront.

The Navy YardThe area around Nationals Stadium has been redeveloped and has lots of new buildings and scenes to check out.

Glen EchoTake a walk through time at historic Glen Echo. Photograph fun art deco signage, a gorgeous carousel, and of course, The Spanish Ballroom.

The U Street NeighborhoodFrom the original Ben’s Chill Bowl to street murals to cool theaters to hipsters, it’s all there.

The National Arboretum (not pictured)From cherry blossom trees to azaleas to the Capitol Columns, there is much to see in the National Arboretum.


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