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Washington Informer “The Singer,” by Maurice G. Fitzgerald, is one of more than 30 photographs on display in the “28 Exposures” exhibit at the Art Institute of Washington. The exhibit will run until Thurs., May 28. Photo by Maurice G. Fitzgerald

More than 30 original landscape and portrait photographs in black and white and in color can be seen in an exhibition entitled “28 Exposures” at the Art Institute of Washington in Arlington, Va. Victor Holt and Maurice Fitzgerald, both Washington Informer photographers, have works included in the exhibit.

The exhibition is the third annual juried members’ exhibit organized by The Exposure Group, an African American photographers association in Washington, D.C. Its members include portrait artists, photojournalists, documentary photographers, and fine artists who work as freelancers.

Holt’s black and white photograph “Shades” entices the viewer to look behind the dark glasses of the subject and imagine what he might be thinking.

Fitzgerald’s black and white photograph “The Singer,” not only shows the viewer the emotional expression of a singer, but allows the mind’s eye to imagine the soulful intensity of reaching a harmonic note.

Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of The Informer, said, while viewing the exhibit, “For someone like me who has knowledge of some of these photographers and has worked with Victor and Maurice on a weekly basis, it gives me the opportunity to see how they can make the ordinary extraordinary. It’s like that moment you exhale, when you look at a child, or a park, or a boulder, or a singer and see the artistic creativity in them.”

Some of the other photographers included in the exhibition are Lillie Lewis-Garrett, Edward Savwoir, Milton Williams, Lisa Fanning, Cleve Bryant and Sharon Farmer, who was the first African American female photographer to work at the White House during the Clinton presidency.

“The head of our photography department has a close relationship with The Exposure Group. She encourages the students to meet and talk to the photographers. The students get really excited and inspired when they meet photographers whose names they recognize,” said Tiffany Young, public relations coordinator for The Art Institute of Washington.

The exhibition “28 Exposures” runs through May 28. For more information call The Art Institute of Washington at 703 358 9550.

Larry Saxton can be reached at lsaxton@washingtoninformer.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .