One of the biggest, most coordinated exhibitions in the Fotoweek festival is Night Gallery DC, the organization of outdoor photographic projections. Eight venues will use high definition projection technology to show multi-story high photographs on the side of their buildings, creating a “nocturnal urban gallery.” Passers-by will be treated to images by photographic greats to current art students, from Pulitzer Prize winners to our Fotoweek contest entrants. Theo Adamstein, FotoWeek DC founder and board president, says “This is a powerful and unique project where architecture, photography and light combine to create a new medium.” If you were in D.C. to see the impressive Lighting to Unite projections on the National Cathedral by Swiss lighting artist Gerry Hofstetter last May, it’s going to be a little like that, except, dare we say, way, way more awesome.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian kicks off the project by displaying portraits of American Indian leaders and images from Native American history, visually juxtaposed to the U.S. Capitol, on 4th Street and Independence Ave NW, Nov 13-15.

Fotoweek Central will project images the first weekend of the festival (Nov 14-15) on the facade of 3338 M Street NW. If you entered the Fotoweek contest, this is the one you should be sure to see, as your work will be featured.

Smithsonian’s Photography Initiative takes over the other side of the street, where the other half of Fotoweek Central is located (3333 M Street), for the entire week of the festival, with work from their new online project, click! photography changes everything.

The Newseum at 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW will show, naturally, Pulitzer Prize winning photos on its already impressive 74-foot tall First Amendment facade. Nov 14-16.

Impressive and humbling portraits of Holocaust survivors light up the walls at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Nov 14-16.

The next generation of photographers are featured at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. 500 17th Street, NW (images on their New York Avenue exterior), Nov 14-15.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum mixes it up a little by showing their projections inside in their spectacular, new(ish) Kogod Courtyard. It’s a great time to visit the new space if you haven’t taken it in yet, and enjoy some contemporary landscape photography. Eighth and F Streeets NW, Nov 18-19 (5 to 7 p.m.) and Nov 20 (5 to 8 p.m.).

Finally, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History pulls out the finish with one of the biggest celebrations — as it coincides with their grand reopening in their newly designed building. Get that patriotic feeling through images from their stash of historical treasures. Madison Ave between 12th and 14th Streets NW, Nov 20-22.

All projections run 5 to 10 p.m., except in the Kogod Courtyard as noted. The projections are made possible by each of the venues listed above, the Herring Media Group, and East Banc, Inc.

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