Since 2008, the WPOW Annual Photography and Multimedia Exhibition has featured storytelling images and video from WPOW members curated from an annual competition of our members’ work by a rotating roster of judges. It debuts at a Washington, D.C. area gallery each fall and travels to colleges and universities throughout the country during the school year.

For the last few years, we have been partnering with D.C.’s Lost Origins Gallery to make the opening exhibition more accessible to the public than ever before, with our annual six-month residency at Lost Origins Outside. Each image is mounted using industrial hardware along a heavily trafficked pedestrian alley in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. And all of our exhibition-related programming occurs outdoors, welcoming passersby to participate.

2025 Exhibition

The 2025 WPOW exhibition showcases outstanding work from the past year by 23 photographers. Featured are the Best in Show winners — Ana Elisa Sotelo (Professional) and Karsyn Meyerson (Student) — along with a Special Recognition Award presented to Anna Moneymaker.

WPOW extends special thanks to exhibition curator Sandra Stevenson, an acclaimed writer, visual editor, and curator whose experience at CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post informed her thoughtful selection of this year’s work.

This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of our sponsor, Nikon, Inc., and our exhibition partner, Lost Origins Gallery, with additional thanks to Dodge-Chrome/PreservePix for printing and installation of the exhibition.