The DC History Center is excited to announce that through the month of February, we will be featuring DC-based street photographers who document our local history and environments. And on February 20, we invite you to join us on Zoom for our interactive photography workshop, Documenting DC.
On Instagram Live, and through Instagram Takeovers (see below for details), we’re spotlighting the work of local photographers and offering live interviews. We’re curating these social media moments based on four themes: people, current events and community, built and natural environments, and activism.
The DC History Center is known for our resources that reveal DC’s past. Many of our vivid photograph collections are the work of amateur documentarians. Our month-long photography campaign will introduce you to a few of today’s DC-based documentary photographers and their processes, as they help preserve DC history. They’ll also help you sharpen your own skills.
We aim to inspire audiences to document this monumental time in history. Check in weekly on Instagram to see our takeovers and live interviews. And don’t forget to sign up for our February 20 photography workshop.
Upcoming Street Photography Programs
Instagram Takeover with Women Photojournalists of Washington
Friday, February 5
Instagram Live with Photoworks
Thursday, February 11 @ 7 pm
Instagram Takeover with Exposed DC
Thursday, February 18
Documenting DC: Street Photography Workshop (online)
With photographers Roy Sewall and Joel Hoffman
February 20, 2021 @ 2 pm
Instagram Live with DC Street Photography Collaborative
Wednesday, February 24 @ 7 pm
Get inspired. Take photos of DC today. Follow the work of DC-based photographers who contribute to the preservation of DC events, history and environments!
Learn more about our featured DC-based photography groups:
Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW)
Women Photojournalists of Washington is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to educating the public about the role of women, and those who identify as women, in visual journalism and fostering their professional success.
Membership in WPOW consists of over 350 seasoned and emerging female photojournalists, photo editors, video journalists, multimedia producers, students and other industry professionals working in the Washington, DC area. They host a variety of programs including quarterly meetings with guest speakers, workshops addressing photographers’ professional needs, a mentorship program, monthly happy hours, and an annual juried exhibition that travels to universities and galleries across the United States.
Instagram: @wpowdc
Facebook: WomenPhotojournalistsOfWashington
Learn more: https://www.womenphotojournalists.org/
Photoworks
Fifty years ago, in a derelict building hidden among the abandoned amusement park rides of Glen Echo Park, four young photographers founded Photoworks with little more than a shared passion for the daily work of seeing, shooting, and printing images of lasting beauty and artistic integrity. The day-to-day collaboration, creative dialogue, and informal mentoring that led those artists to successful careers as fine art and commercial photographers established the values of experimentation and collegiality that define Photoworks today. Offering a diverse combination of educational programs, gallery exhibitions, and community initiatives, Photoworks is a vibrant and unique hub for students and professional photographers – an arts community in the very best sense of the word. Photoworks operates in cooperation with the Glen Echo Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc.
Instagram: @glenechophotoworks
Facebook: glenechophotoworks
Learn more: glenechophotoworks.org
Exposed DC
Exposed DC connects photographers of all levels with networking, mentoring, and exhibition opportunities. They partner with organizations to strengthen and cultivate the local photography community. Since 2006, Exposed DC has produced an annual photography show, with a contest that begins in December and a gallery exhibit featuring the contest winners the following spring. Now a year-round venture, Exposed DC organizes meet-ups and other events, highlights local images, profiles photographers, and offers lessons for a wide range of skill levels.
Instagram: @exposed_dc
Facebook: ExpPhotoDC
Learn more: exposeddc.com
DC Street Photography Collective
The DC Street Photography Collective (DC SPC), a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is a collective made up of dedicated street photographers from the DC, MD, VA areas who are devoted to producing, sharing, and creatively capturing the human condition with the objective to foster growth for one’s own work as well as those around them. The group was founded by Ryan Madison in May of 2018.
Their mission is to support collective and non-collective members alike in the community and promote the diverse contemporary street photographers who reside near to and in the nation’s capital. DC PSC fosters growth for all photographers who are interested in raising the bar of their work through a meaningful conversation on and offline, all of which are free events. Everyone and anyone is invited to participate regardless of experience or camera type.
Since its first meet up October 13th, 2019, DC SPC has been actively searching for a new way to involve the community at large. They offer indoor and outdoor critique sessions (weather permitting), and monthly meet ups give individuals the chance to share experiences, tips and techniques and more. Members and the public are offered an opportunity to explore street photography through engagement with a local like-minded community that shares information, tools, and promotes each other’s work. Their annual member exhibitions, workshops, and events to highlight photographs from members or talented photographers they’ve discovered who follow and tag DC SPC using the #DC_SPC hashtag.
Instagram: @dc_spc
Facebook: TheDCSPC
Learn more: thedcspc.com