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NightGallery - FotoWeek Central 1
DATE:	11/6/2009 - 11/8/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	The façade, of FotoWeek Central 1, 3338 M Street, will be illuminated with digital video projections, featuring a dazzling display of of images by finalists in the FotoWeek DC Awards competition and of selected images from FotoWeek DC special exhibitions. The projection site will become a focal point for viewers to experience on a grand scale the ephemeral magic that comes when light meets surface. Over the weekend of November 6, 7, and 8, the projections will run from 6:00pm to midnight, and are free and open to the public. A production of Architectural Media™ by Marc Herring and Quince Imaging.
COST:	Free nightly starting at dusk

NightVisions
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/8/2009
WHEN:	1800
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	Join fellow photographers in an all night spontaneous adrenaline caffeine induced creation of images. The premise is simple. Create a photographic image between the hours of 6:00pm, Saturday, November 7th and 6:00am, Sunday, November 8th. Where: anywhere your imagination dictates. Anything Goes: Street scenes, studio, any venue, any subject or concept. How: Photographers should shoot digitally and personally deliver the photos to FotoweekDC Central 1 at 3338 M Street NW in Georgetown. Computers will be provided for photographers to download, rough edit and submit 1 to 30 images. Lightroom and Bridge will be available. Next: Nationally recognized photo editors will be on hand all night to choose one image from each photographer. The editing process will be projected for all to see. The selected image will be immediately printed, size 11X14, identified with the photographer's name, and hung. Hand written signature and captioning encouraged. All submitted images will be continuously projected. The show will be open to the public during Fotoweek. Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Free snacks, coffee, music, cash bar and best of all an opportunity to create, see, and talk about photography all night with friends, colleagues and photographic zealots. NightVisions gallery will be viewable during regular FotoWeek Central hours.
COST:	Free RSVP Necessary - NightVisions@FotoWeekDC.org

Dreams In Color: The National Geographic Autochromes – Curated by William Bonner
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	National Geographic presents a rare look at the dawn of color photography with an exquisite display of Autochromes from the Society’s massive photographic archive. With 15,000 Autochromes, National Geographic has one of world’s largest collections of color glass plates. The 22 prints of Dream in Color are on view to the public for the first time ever. Many thanks to the National Geographic Imaging Department for sponsoring this exhibit.
COST:	Free

Flash Forward 2009 - Presented by The Magenta Foundation
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 4 3333 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	The Magenta Foundation presents Flash Forward 2009, the renowned exhibition and publication of the emerging artist photography competition now in its fifth year. Flash Forward 2009 brings together the cream of the crop of new photographers from Canada, the UK and the US in a juried contest that gets better year after year, becoming a new benchmark for the recognition and promotion of up-and-coming talent. This year’s artists in the exhibition include, Adam Rankin, Joshua Jensen Nagle, Martie Giefert, Simon Hayer, Hubert Kang from Canada; Giacomo Brunelli, Odette England, Matthew Robert Hughes, Manuel Vazquez from the UK; Matt Eich, Jeff Hutchens, Adam Kuehl, Ryan Schude, Amy Stevens from the US.
COST:	Free

FotoWeek DC International Awards Competition
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	This exhibition of the finalists from the 2009 Awards competition recognizes and honors extraordinary work in photography. Entries from sixteen states and twenty-eight foreign countries were made in several categories, including Fine Art, News/Feature Reporting, Advertising, Travel, and Sports. A multimedia category was added this year, too — work that may combine still photography with sound, graphics or video. A distinguished panel of judges, both from the U. S. and abroad, has carefully selected our finalists who will be recognized with Awards of Excellence, Distinction, and Merit -- the top three entries in each category for a total of $21,500 in cash prizes. The winner of the "Spirit of Washington," a single image that captures the essence of our capitol city, will receive the $5,000 Podesta Prize.
COST:	Free

InsideOutside: New Images from Russia - Curated by Lucian Perkins
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	Fotoweek Central 2 3306 M St, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	InsideOutside: New Images from Russia offers glimpses into Russia and its people through environmental portraits taken by Liza Faktor, Alexander Gronsky, Olya Ivanova, and Rafal Milach.
COST:	Free

Iraqi Voices - Curated by Lucian Perkins
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	Fotoweek Central 3 3307-D M St, nw Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	Featuring the work of ten renown photographers, Iraqi Voices provides a human face to the Iraqi population largely ignored by the media's coverage of the war in Iraq. It will give American audiences the opportunity to see Iraqis up close and personal in a way that only photographs can provide. ures work by: Andrea Bruce, Mimi Chakarova, Lori Grinker, Amro Hamzawi, Chris Hondros, Farah Nosh, Robert Nickelsberg, Moises Saman, Peter Van Agtmael, and members of Associated Press.
COST:	Free

My Cuba - Curated by Lucian Perkins
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	Fotoweek Central 2 3306 M St, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	Only 90 miles from Key West, Cuba offers a wealth of culture and life, personally captured by Ernesto Bazan, Ziyah Gafic, and João Pina. Italian photographer Bazan became enchanted with the Cuban people during his visits in the early 1990s. He married a Cuban and lived there from 1997 to 2006. Bosnian photographer Gafic went to Cuba specifically to photograph it fifty years after the Revolution for an Italian magazine. Portuguese photographer Pina first traveled to Cuba with his parents as a six-year-old. The visuals, noises, and smells never left him, and when he became a photographer he returned frequently knowing that once Fidel Castro disappears the current way of life will most likely disappear too.
COST:	Free

National Geographic's Your Shot
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	Since Your Shot debuted in National Geographic in March 2006, readers have submitted more than 100,000 photos to the contest. All were first vetted by senior photo editor Susan Welchman, who each morning chooses twelve new entries to appear on ngm.com. From these "Daily Dozens," she and design editor Oliver Uberti pick one image to publish in the magazine each month, alongside another photo chosen by online voters. This exhibit features Susan and Oliver's favorite submissions from the past year.
COST:	Free

Publisher Exhibition
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 4 3333 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	FotoWeek DC's Publisher Exhibition features recently published photography books by leading national and international publishers. Come browse your favorite publisher, photographer, or subject matter and flip through books ranging from traditional trade editions, to unconventionally printed books, and award-winning self-published print-on-demand books. The Publisher Exhibition showcases the wide range of publishing styles and formats that exist in today's book publishing industry. The Publisher Exhibition will run the length of FotoWeek DC. At the conclusion of this year's festival, the books will join the 2008 collection and will eventually be donated to a local public collection. Books can be purchased through the individual publishers. Limited FotoWeek DC book specials will be available at the exhibition.
COST:	Free

The United State of America - Curated by Elizabeth Krist
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	Photographers Michael Christopher Brown, Carolyn Drake, Ross McDermott, and Andrew Owen look at what happens when we Americans come together, whether within the welcome routine of our daily communities—urban and suburban—or in the strange exuberance of American festivals that celebrate anything and everything. Broadway When Michael Christopher Brown began to photograph Broadway, the iconic avenue that runs the length of Manhattan and beyond, he expected the assignment to be easy, the street more visually exotic. But as a New Yorker, he found it difficult to interpret a street he’d seen so often, yet had deliberately avoided. Ultimately, he simply responded to what he found most revealing about a street he describes as a frenetic river of activity. Michael, now living in Beijing and New York, photographed this story for GEO France in 2008. New Suburbia As suburban sprawl spread north of Miami, the western territory of Palm Beach County—once rural farmland in the Everglades—became one of America's fastest-growing residential districts. As real estate values skyrocketed, Carolyn Drake focused on a new gated community called Olympia, exploring the lifestyle that made this region such a hot commodity. Carolyn, now based in Istanbul, began this project in 2005 while a photographer at the Palm Beach Post. American Festivals The American Festivals Project unearths the hidden, and at times bizarre, festivals and competitions of America's small towns. Over the course of 13 months in 2008 and 2009, Charlottesville photographers Ross McDermott and Andrew Owen crisscrossed the country to attend events like the Machine Gun Shootout in Kentucky, the International Water Tasting Championships in West Virginia, the Rainbow Gathering in New Mexico, and the Middle of Nowhere Festival in Nebraska. They traveled more than 40,000 miles, often riding in a diesel truck powered by waste vegetable oil, and sleeping in a 1960s camper. The American Festivals Project was funded partially through a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant.
COST:	Free

Thumbnail Show
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	The Thumbnail exhibition is comprised of ALL the entries to the FotoWeek DC Awards, hundreds of small images that fill giant contact sheets on the wall. It proved last year to be a crowd favorite, as everyone who entered the competition would be able -- with some searching! – to spot their work exhibited at FotoWeek Central.
COST:	Free

Thy Brothers' Keeper - Curated by Geno Rodriguez
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 4 3333 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	“Thy Brothers' Keeper presents a story of diverse peoples who have endured, and continue to endure, intolerable conditions that violate the basic principles of humanity. This exhibition, shows us, through photographs, that we are all citizens of the world, not just a country, a state, or a neighborhood—and the hope is that it will encourage us all to take greater responsibility to ensure that the conditions under which our fellow citizens live are humane on all levels, and to remind us that we are all interconnected—we are, in biblical terms “Our Brother's Keeper. ” The list of critically acclaimed photojournalists represented in Thy Brothers’ Keeper includes Nina Berman, Andrew Lichtenstein, Stephen Shames, Fanie Jason, Guy Tillim, Humberto Mayol, Wang Yishu, Noel Jabbour, Ilan Mizrahi, Sharon Paz, David Binder, Alexandra Boulat, Heidi Bradner, Raul Canibano, Peter Essick, Philip Jones, Carol Guzy, Geert van Kesteren, Gary Knight, Fernando Moleres, Lucian Perkins, John Stanmeyer, and Vida Yovanocih, Andres Carrasco Ragel, and Encarna Mozas. Most of these 25 photojournalists have received international recognition and awards, including Pulitzer Prize and other awards of the highest excellence.
COST:	Free

Until the Grass is Gone: Images of Transition in Northern Uganda, Peter van Agtmael and Pete Muller
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	With twenty years of war at an uncertain end, Uganda's northern Acholi people pursue opportunities to rebuild and reconcile their community amidst ongoing poverty, underdevelopment and political turmoil. At the same time, internal and international focus has shifted towards the northeastern region of Karamoja, where a different tribal community struggles with increasing violence. Each photographer presents captivating images that illustrate daily life, both beautiful and challenging, and present a nuanced picture of the situation in the region. Together, the work of Muller and van Agtmael captures the vibrancy of culture and strength of communities across northern Uganda while paying respectful homage to its troubled past and the challenges that lie ahead. This show was made possible by the generous support of Mr. Ora Nwabueze and The Dunes, LLC.
COST:	Free

Youth Contest Award Winners
DATE:	11/7/2009 - 11/14/2009
WHERE:	FotoWeek Central 1 3338 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Hours: Mon - Fri: 11AM to 7PM; Sat & Sun: 10AM to 8PM View Google Map >>
DESCRIPTION:	The youth photo contest winners' photos will be printed and put on display at FotoWeek Central.
COST:	Free