FAQs
Q: I’m affiliated with a newspaper or network news (ABC, CBS, NBC local stations). Can I use the images here for publication?
A: News outlets with primary business offices in Maryland, Virginia, or Washington D.C. can contact us via the email above for full-size image requests.
Q: What is northern Virginia?
A: Is it in the beltway? Outside the beltway? Does it constitute everything in the D.C. region for things like the Census or pay scales? (By the way, this region extends all the way south on Interstate 95 to Fredericksburg, Virginia and even northwest to include a county in West Virginia.) For intended audiences here, let’s just primarily limit it to Metrorail-accessible areas.
Q: Who runs The District Pix?
A: The publisher of The District Pix is a local photographer with more than a decade of experience in communications work, including editorial news and op-ed writing, concert and event photography, sports coverage, print design and more. The recipient of several state press association awards, he led award-winning design for printed event and tourism guides, and was even nominated for a statewide communications award by members of a community organization.
Q: Why here? Why now?
A: In the photography community we’re seeing a lot of great, quality content and images increasingly deprioritized by social media platforms in favor of short videos. If pictures are worth a thousand words, then quality video is probably worth a million. But photos still tell stories. They capture the moment as it happened without distractions, whether intentional or unintentional. They can display in different aspect ratios than 9:16 verticals. They deserve a rightful corner of the internet. Even if that corner is alongside e-editions of broadsheet newspapers.
