This August, Touchstone Gallery presents some of the region’s top emerging and established photographers juried by one of DC’s most esteemed photojournalists.
Touchstone Gallery encouraged photographers in the surrounding area to enter their finest photographs, expecting only the best to fill Touchstone’s walls. PHOTO FOCUS is a collaboration of photographs that appeals to diverse tastes within a sole medium.
JUROR: Sharon Farmer
JUROR Sharon Farmer is a professional photojournalist and lectures extensively on photography and photojournalism. Among her many roles, she served as Director of the White House Photography Office from 1999-2001; was A White House photographer since 1993, documenting the Clinton-Gore Administration; was the campaign photographer for Sen. John Kerry’s presidential election campaign in 2004; curated a photography show entitled “Cuba Now” at the District of Columbia’s Sumner Museum. Over the years she has photographed for The Washington Post, the Smithsonian Institution, and The American Association for the Advancement of Science, to name a few. Ms. Farmer’s work has been featured in several books and her photography has been exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Bethune Museum Archive, Inc. Ms. Farmer has taught and lectured extensively on photography and journalism at the American University, the Smithsonian Institution, Mount Vernon College, The National Geographic Society, Indiana University and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). In 2001 she lectured in five cities for the “Flying Short Course” sponsored by the National Association of Press Photographers.
