Before my first street style freelance assignment for the Washington Post in 2009, I called the photo editor for some direction.  What was she looking for?  What was she expecting?  She only gave me one visual example, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare from 1932.  A world-renowned, distant black-and-white image of a stranger captured by happenstance [...]

“Election Night, 2008,” Copyright Darrow Montgomery/Washington City Paper When I asked Washington City Paper Staff Photographer Darrow Montgomery to send me images for this blog post, I had no idea what I’d get.  Darrow has been shooting for the City Paper since 1986, five years after the weekly tabloid began.  One digital capture I received, [...]

Worn Magazine’s third issue is on its way… In the meantime,  please join Worn Magazine for our second industry mixer to connect with fellow photography and fashion entrepreneurs living and working in the DC-metro area.

“Javelin,” one of 27 images that SERLI chose for the exhibition. Photo courtesy of the artist A two person photography exhibition by SERLI and Singh, “Slices of Life” showcases the diverse styles and personal idiosyncrasies of these two artists through provocative self portraits and glimpses into the world of people who make music. The opening [...]

The Polaroid retrospective exhibition at SOVA has closed, but the process of making these collages continues for me.  Each of the 62 prints in the assembly of V is a 3.25″ x 4.25″ one-of-a-kind exposure made on Fuji instant film and signed with an embosser.  (Ala Andy Warhol, who did this with his Polaroids.)  They [...]

Groover Cleveland with one of his “We’re All Immigrants” paintings (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 36 x 48 inches). He also has produced a silkscreen print edition of this image (see below). Given the sensitive political work Groover does for his day job, he doesn’t like to be photographed, and he rarely attends his [...]

Jackie Flanagan is courageous. She opened a women’s clothing boutique called Nana’s on the U Street Corridor way before anyone decided it was cool, or even safe to go there, much less shop there. Eight years and many loyal customers later, she’s moved her shop to Mt. Pleasant to be part of a new emerging [...]