2019 Annual Exhibition Winners

IMF-World Bank’s International Photographic Society (IPS) 49th Annual Exhibition

June 10 – July 12, 2019

Winners list:

Award	Photographer	Image Name
1st place	Ebitty-Doro, Estelle	Beach Walk
2nd place	Morquecho, Manuel	Still Beautiful
3rd place	Chaturvedi, Akshatvishal	Bathroom
HM	Chaturvedi, Akshatvishal	At Peace
HM	Clifton, Eric	March
HM	Clifton, Eric	Key West
HM	de la Morena, Daniel	Family in Rello Spain
HM	dos Santos, Jayme	The Desert Wanderer
HM	Fikre, Million	Coal Country
HM	Fikre, Million	Jazz, Jazz, Jazz
HM	George, Rama	Bird cage
HM	González de la Peňa, Marta	Hug
HM	Mierau-Klein, Barbara	The Jester
HM	Nolly Araujo, Lenin	Jurassic Park
HM	Nolly Araujo, Lenin	Tears of Freedom in Washington DC
HM	Öner, Ceyda	Pickaboo
HM	Peng, Xiaoxiao	Stairs
HM	Sdralevich, Carlo	Sierra Leone, 2015
HM	Sdralevich, Carlo	Washington Zoo, 2015
HM	Verner, Dorte	My Home
HM	Weigum, Natalie	Bo-Kaap Kid

Judges’ bios:

SARAH HOOD SALOMON

Sarah Hood Salomon is a fine art photographer, whose award-winning images have
been included in numerous solo and group shows throughout the U.S. Sarah is also
a photography judge, curator, author and lecturer. Her work is represented by The Waverly
Street Gallery, in Bethesda, MD, and Multiple Exposures Gallery in Alexandria, VA.
Wiith over 40 years of experience as a freelance photographer, Salomon’s clients have
included television stations, magazines, newspapers, universities, hospitals and various
private clients. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, and has taken a variety of
master classes. Her upcoming solo show, “The Spirit of the Woodlands” will be on view June
17-July 28, 2019, at Multiple Exposures Gallery. Further information and images are available
on her website; www.sarahhoodsalomon.com

MICHAEL LANG

Michael Lang is an accomplished social documentary photographer living in the
Washington area. His 1957 photo-essay, A Nice Clean Room, focused on a Baltimore
poolroom known as Benny’s. He approached the subject as an outside observer, presenting
atmospheric images of the poolroom and the people who hung out there using a hand held
camera, available light, and black and white film. Lang has returned to the genre 50 years
later with an essay, Be: There, about the Be Bar, a lounge in the Shaw neighborhood of
Washington, now undergoing a rebirth after the riots of the 1960s. Again Lang uses available
light and a hand held camera; but now he employs digital techniques to capture the stark
raw, color of the place and the people. He’s always there and not there at the same time,
observing the community – the bar tenders, the drag queens, the go-go boys, and the people
who gravitate to the atmosphere of the place. BE: THERE…

DIANE WAGGONER

Diane Waggoner is curator of nineteenth-century photographs in the department of
photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. She received her PhD in art
history from Yale University. She previously held positions at the Yale University Art Gallery
and The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Since joining the
department of photographs at the National Gallery in 2004, she has co-curated Photographic
Discoveries: Recent Acquisitions (2006); The Streets of New York: American Photographs
from the Collection, 1938-1958(2006); The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the
Collection of Robert E. Jackson (2007); and In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before
the Digital Age (2009). The Art of the American Snapshot exhibition catalog was the 2008
winner of the College Art Association’s Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for museum scholarship.
She curated The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875 (2010) and
collaborated with Tate Britain on Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900 (2013).
Most recently, she organized the major exhibition, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century
American Landscape Photography, on view at the National Gallery of Art in 2017.

• June 10, 2019