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The DC Street Photography Collective, DCSPC, is proud to return for a night of photography at Slash Run. This event will feature a presentation by Lucian Perkins, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and staff photographer at the Washington Post for more than 20 years. Perkins will discuss how taking Garry Winogrand’s class at the University of Texas changed his perspective about photography and art and how it influenced his career as a photographer. He will present projects he has completed through the years that are most related to street photography and his influence by Winogrand.

In addition, there is an open call to DMV photographers to participate in a live critique with Perkins, members of DCSPC, Larry Cohen from Observe Collective, and special guests (TBA).

Live Critique: Call for Entry

To participate, submit 3-5 photographs for consideration, 2000 px on the long edge at 72 DPI, to thedcspc@gmail.com. Deadline is Thursday, July 1 at midnight EST. Submission is free.

For those who submit to the critique, we will notify you that we have received your submission. Photographs will be chosen a few days before the event and 10 finalists will be announced at the event. We will award a prize to the person who receives the best critique.

The cost of entry is $15.

7: 30 PM - Doors open

8:15 PM - Critiques start

9:15 PM - Lucian Perkins’ presentation

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About Lucian Perkins

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lucian Perkins is an independent photographer and filmmaker based in Washington, D.C.

Lucian seeks to document human interest stories ranging from daily life and social issues in the United States to conflicts and crises overseas. His approach pairs a deep sympathy for his subjects with an ability to expose their hopes and foibles, and combines formal clarity with, from time to time, an offbeat humor. At the University of Texas at Austin, he studied with acclaimed street photographer Garry Winogrand, who remains an inspiration.

His first full-length documentary, The Messengers, follows two young volunteers who are transformed by the residents of a hospice for homeless HIV/AIDs patients. It premiered at FilmfestDC in April 2017. He also filmed and produced short films on the Syrian refugee crisis, South Sudan, and the obesity and health crisis in America.

As staff photographer at the Washington Post for more than 20 years, Lucian covered major international events such as the fall of the Soviet Union and its aftermath; the wars and refugee crises in the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan; and major events at home. Lucian received his first Pulitzer Prize for collaboration with Post reporter Leon Dash on a four-year study that examined the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C., family through the eyes of the matriarch. His second Pulitzer Prize was for coverage of the Kosovo conflict.

Additional awards include Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and World Press Photo of the Year. Lucian also worked closely with the Post’s online edition to produce many of its first multimedia and interactive projects such as the “Siberia Diary” and “Finland Diary.” Colleagues in Russia were the inspiration to co-found InterFoto, an annual non-profit international photography conference held in Moscow that included a competition as well as exchange programs and workshops. And in 2009 he co-founded Facing Change: Documenting America, a non-profit which is now running a very successful program in Detroit.

Lucian’s recent book, Hard Art, DC 1979, captures the beginning of the Washington, D.C., punk music scene while revealing its reverberating impact today. And, in award-winning Runway Madness, he delivers a ringside tongue-in-cheek look at the New York fashion shows.

Solo and group exhibitions have shown at World Press Photo Foundation, Amsterdam; ART in Embassies Program in Sarajevo, Havana, Tokyo, and Ankara; Newseum in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and New York; Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University; and other venues.

Lucian pursues his love for the still image while on the go filming documentary projects, for which he is in international demand.