Open Call — f8photographic

Open Call: Show us your DC Metro Photos

In June, the photo exhibition A Long Way Down opened in DC, featuring the work of 11 photographers who documented the grit, the weirdness, the grind and the humanity of life underneath the nation’s capital.

We’re not only expanding that exhibition about the city’s subway system, we’re turning it into a book. With this open call, you have a chance of seeing your work in the book A Long Way Down: The Grandeur, Grit and Humanity of the DC Metro. Some of the photos selected for the book will be added to the photo exhibition currently showing at metrobar in northeast DC. Select photos will also be shown during a projection show at metrobar on Sept. 24 during the city-wide Art All Night celebration.

Two people on a DC metro subway car during the morning commute.

“Ah that morning light” by Aprita Upadhyaya

To Submit Your Photos

Email no more than five images to info@f8photographic.com with the subject line “DC METRO.” There is no fee to submit.

Submission deadline for Art All Night Projection Show: Sept. 22

Final submission deadline: Nov. 4

Open to Documentary, Street, Architectural, Portrait and Fine Art Photography

The photos can be recent or from your archives. Submit color or black-and-white, taken above or below ground as long as they fit the theme of exploring DC’s subway system. If your photo is selected for the book, you’ll be asked to sign a release and will need to provide a high-resolution file suitable for printing.

Hundreds of thousands of people use the subway each week to travel through the heart of the District and into Virginia and Maryland, and each one of them has a story. Show us images that help us explore the love-hate relationship we have with the DC Metro system.

About the editor and publisher

Joe Newman, owner of f8photographic, is the curator of the A Long Way Down photo exhibition. He is the founder of the annual Focus on the Story International Photo Festival, which celebrated its fifth year this past June in Washington, DC. He has published three collaborative photo books: UnPresidented: The Inauguration of Donald J. Trump and the People’s Response, The Great American Eclipse: Images and Essays from Totality, and Transition: The End of an UnPresidented Four Years.