FotoDC
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Phone: 202-337-3686
In 2008, FotoWeekDC began with one core program: a weeklong celebration of the power of photography. Founder Theo Adamstein, with a committed, passionate board and a small group of friends and local photographers raised seed money and launched FotoWeek’s initial photography festival in November 2008. Washington’s first citywide celebration of photography attracted over 20,000 participants, including both professional and amateur photographers as well as photography lovers, and partners such as National Geographic, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian, and a host of local galleries and other Partners. In the spring of 2009, FotoWeekDC became a non-profit organization and has added programs that provide educational opportunities for photographers, new venues for exhibitions and new programs for students and youth. Attendance figures for the free Festival have grown rapidly, with over 40,000 persons visiting the 2010 FotoWeekDC Festival.
FotoWeekDC has earned an international reputation as a premier photography Festival. Bold, provocative, and ambitious; the week-long and city-wide celebration of photography continues to break boundaries, open minds, and exceed expectations. Whether through photojournalism, fine art photography, or the work of emerging and established artists, we provide a dynamic, evocative, engaging experience for photographers, collectors, cultural institutions, galleries, curators, schools, area residents and tens of thousands of visitors to the Nation's Capital. Past festivals archives provide a glimpse of why FotoWeekDC attracts thousands of supporters each year.
Now officially FotoDC, the organization has evolved from a city-centric photography festival to a multi-season tribute to photography in all its forms. While the largest offering remains the annual festival, FotoDC now holds functions throughout the year. In 2011, FotoDC’s new year-round programming included the innovative exhibition entitled Flash in Crystal City, the first ever Cherry Blossom Photo Contest and the opening of FotoSpace, a new gallery and office space in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. Our inaugural exhibition was "Speaking to Silence" with partners Human Rights Watch and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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