Washington, D.C.’s High Heel Race Keeps Getting Bigger And Better
We first took our Leica Monochrom and Noctilux down to 17th Street to photograph D.C.’s epic High Heel Race, a drag queen extravaganza taking place each year the week of Halloween, in 2014. At that time, we published a photo gallery with images that caused a sufficiently positive stir — one of the pics was a winner of the Exposed DC annual contest — that we went back last year and photographed the event again, publishing what we thought were even stronger images. And so last year, when we launched our sister site, Tulip Frenzy Photography, we made prominent among its galleries one called “High Heel Racers: D.C.’s Ladies Of The Night.” There was no way, therefore, that we could miss this year’s running of the race, and as the pictures below should indicate, the event is only getting better.
November 16, 2016 at 11:48 pm
Are there people actually running in heels for this? If so, that’s amazing. very interesting
November 17, 2016 at 12:45 am
Yes! There is a long pageant before the race, but yes, the race itself has all the ladies running two blocks in heels.