A person with long locs in a yellow mesh cut-out top at an outdoor festival, Washington, D.C.
Backlit silhouettes of a crowd against a bright sky, hands and a phone raised overhead.
A drag performer in a teal costume throws both arms wide on an outdoor festival stage beneath a clear blue sky.
A concert crowd in warm low sun; a person in a red cap and sunglasses turns toward the camera as the stage glows behind.
Two figures stand back to back in dramatic low light, black and white.
A festival-goer in a bright shirt leans on a metal barricade in the sun, flashing a peace sign, flanked by others.
A man in a stars-and-stripes shirt arranges flags and wreaths at a memorial wall as a plane crosses the sky, Washington, D.C.
Several people lie on their backs along the base of a vast pale stone monument wall in hard sun, feet up against the stone, Washington, D.C.
A person leans out of a raised press platform high on a hydraulic lift, working at equipment against a bright blue sky.
In Yellow · Washington, D.C. — 2025
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Documentary & street photography · Washington, D.C.

Public life in Washington, photographed up close.

An ongoing record of the American capital — its rallies and parades, its believers and bystanders — made on foot, at close range.

Owen McCullum
About

Owen McCullum is a documentary and street photographer in Washington, D.C. He works at close range, usually with a flash, so every face comes forward with its expression intact: the believer, the bystander, the marcher mid-shout. He cares less about the event than the feeling under the look, and about what a city that runs on argument, in every kind of weather, leaves on the people who live there.

Available for headshots, portraits, and editorial assignments. Prints and licensing on request.