Everywhere You See
FotoWeek DC is boundless! During Festival week, November 6-13 – and throughout the upcoming year – there will be more exhibitions and viewings, more projections, more lectures and workshops, more portfolio reviews, and more special events than you (or we!) could believe possible.
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The FotoWeek DC International Awards Competition is underway!
The deadline for submission is September 20, 2010. This year’s outstanding team of judges include Jean-Francois Leroy, Founder of Visa Pour L’Image; Gary Knight of VII; MaryAnne Golon of AARP; Jose Azel of Aurora; Bob Krist, Michael Davie and Nick Nichols of National Geographic; David Scull of the New York Times; Kathleen Ewing, fine art expert and owner of the Kathleen Ewing Gallery; photographer Joyce Tenneson, and more. Winners receive cash prizes, will be exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art/Corcoran School or Art + Design, and enjoy extraordinary exposure on-line and through various festival events. Click here to learn more: http://fotoweekdcawards.org
Exhibitions
If you’re looking to immerse yourself in provocative, transformative, high-caliber photography, there’s no place like FotoWeek DC. International in scope, diverse in vision, the festival highlights photojournalism and art photography with contemporary themes of social, environmental, and political significance.
This year, The Corcoran Gallery of Art/Corcoran College of Art + Design will be the home base of FotoWeek Central: come here to immerse yourself in the images of the International Awards Competition winners. A satellite venue will house the festival’s extensive books exhibition and offer cinema-style presentations of boundary-breaking photojournalism and fine art photography from around the world.
- November 6-13
- Award Winners Exhibition
- Corcoran Gallery of Art Atrium
NightGallery
The sun never sets on FotoWeek DC! NightGallery illuminates the facades of significant Washington buildings with digital video projections…a dazzling array of images from our international awards competitions, exhibitions, and museum archives. Residents and visitors to the Nation’s Capital experience the city’s grandest architecture in exciting, challenging ways as ephemeral images come to life on some of the Washington’s most striking architecture.
Numerous locations throughout the city will be chosen as projection sites. Check back in late September for a list of locations and dates.
Lectures and Workshops
The opportunity to listen to – and learn from – the “rock stars” of the photography world is one of FotoWeek DC’s biggest draws. Renowned photojournalists, fine art and commercial photographers, curators, gallery owners, photo editors, and professors share their knowledge and know-how throughout the festival. Sometimes amusing, sometimes thought-provoking, always informative: there’s something for everyone during FotoWeek DC.
Saturday 11/6/2010
7 PM
Annual Arnold Newman Lecture
Corcoran Auditorium
Lecturer: Bruce Davidson
Monday 11/8/2010
12 PM
Noontime Lecture Series – Book Publishing
Corcoran Auditorium
Lecturers: Mary Virginia Swanson with Darius Himes
Tuesday 11/9/2010
12 PM
Noontime Lecture Series - Documentary
Corcoran Auditorium
Lecturers: Tom Rankin, Center for Documentary Studies, with Michael Itkoff, Daylight Magazine
Tuesday 11/9/2010
7 PM
Corcoran Auditorium
Lecturer: Brian Storm
Co-sponsored with ASMP
Wednesday 11/10
10 AM - 6 PM
Corcoran Auditorium
Brian Storm/Media Storm Workshop
Co-sponsored with ASMP
Thursday 11/11/2010
Time: TBD
Corcoran Auditorium
Fine Art Photography
Lecturer: Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
Thursday 11/11
7pm
Corcoran Auditorium
Restrepro & Infidel Lecture
Lecturer: Time Hetherington
Additional workshops and lectures are being added – please check back often for updates.
Portfolio Reviews
Are you an emerging photographer, ready for a professional to “tell it like it is?” Mark your calendar for FotoWeek DC’s popular portfolio reviews: they always sell out! This year, an international lineup of curators, educators, photo editors, and other experts in the fields of commercial, fine art, photojournalism, multimedia and documentary will be on hand to offer frank appraisals and critiques. You’ll make valuable business connections and get helpful advice on your work in progress.
Portfolio reviewers include Bruce Davidson, Frank DiPerna, Andy Grundberg, Mary Anne Golon, Darius Himes, Sarah Kennel, Debra Klomp Ching, Michael Mazzeo, Tom Rankin, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Mary Virginia Swanson, Jill Waterman & Time Wride.
Registrations for portfolio reviews will be accepted in late September. Please check back for details.
Party
Everywhere You See…and Are Seen!
Blast off! FotoWeek DC launches the 2010 festival with a launch party that’s certain to be the talk of the town. Be the first to congratulate our International Awards Competition winners…and revel in the power of their images, as the winning entries are unveiled at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Be dazzled by stunning electronic projections…then bedazzle your friends on the dance floor. Lite bites, nighttime cocktails, and hot tunes will keep the octane level high, high, high. Look sharp! This is a Photography Party, ya’ll: the paparazzi will be out in force!
Mark your calendars now – then check back soon for ticket information.
