FotoWeek DC

This week is the third annual FotoWeek DC.

We went to see the award winners at the Corcoran the other day and stayed for the NightGallery projection onto the side of the museum. The winners gallery is definitely worth a look and for those in DC take a trip downtown one evening this week for a NightGallery presentation you won't regret it.

From WaPo...

Over the course of a single week, this Friday to next Saturday, thousands of pictures will vie for your attention (if not your affection) in this third annual celebration of the photographic art. Based for the first time at the Corcoran Gallery of Art but including a lineup of dozens of shows at more far-flung "partner" galleries and museums in and around the city...

...For the first time this year, the vast majority of the images pulled together by FotoWeek will not exist in any physical form. That's because, for 2010, Fotoweek has greatly expanded its NightGallery program, offering a series of virtual outdoor galleries on city buildings whose facades are being commandeered as projection screens for a series of temporary digital slide shows.

With the exception of the contest winners, whose work has been printed and will remain on view all week in the atrium of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, NightGallery includes no actual photographic prints. It's there, in the streets - on the outside of such buildings as the Corcoran, the Newseum, the American Red Cross, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian and the offices of the Human Rights Campaign - that you'll find the heart of FotoWeek DC.