North Capitol Photo Walk with Austin Graff and Steven Cummings

Austin Graff

Manager, Marketing and Acquisition, The Washington Post

Austin Graff works at The Washington Post, leading the talent brand and acquisition team. He is also a contributing writer for By The Way, a new travel destination by The Post. Prior to The Post, Austin led social media and celebrity relations for a leading human rights organization and then for Honest Tea, America’s #1 organic iced tea brand. After growing up in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Germany, Austin now proudly calls Washington, D.C. home. He’s on the features team for IGDC, a community of local photographers, and often documents life in the city via his Instagram. He lives in SE DC with his wife, daughter, and friend.

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Steven Cummings

Local photographer and North Capitol area long-time resident

Steven Cummings is a photographer and documentarian who has a studio in Northeast, Washington, DC. He was born in Okinawa, Japan in 1965 and traveled through Europe with his military family as a child. Steven has lived in the North Capitol area since 1994.

Steven depicted black life in Washington, DC and shot almost exclusively in black and white. He captured people as they were, outside the studio, in natural light, and going about the business of living.

He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010 with an M.F.A. in Photographic and Electronic Media. Steven’s selected exhibitions included D.C. Undercover: Photographs by Steven M. Cummings, Artuare, and Chocolate City Rest in Peace.

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