Club photo exhibit, with images of news, wildlife, street and art, runs through Friday
The 24th annual National Press Club photography exhibit, portraying people and events in Washington, D.C., and worldwide, continues in the Club's main lobby through this Friday, Sept. 29. The exhibit features visual storytelling by 55 NPC members displaying 211 digital images and print photos, with an online catalog giving the stories behind the pictures on display. Photojournalism is the core of the annual exhibits, which began in 1999. In this year's exhibit, veteran news photographer Christy Bowe displays Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to the White House in Dec. 2022, while Celeste McCall offers images of Trump supporters on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, not seen before, and Ben Sarao shows the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City. Plus, photojournalist B.P. Miller, a first-time exhibit participant, provides perhaps the iconic image of a health care worker during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Club members travel to remote areas on earth to provide their wildlife shots, including species in Antarctica by Lorraine Woellert, Botswana by Dan Rumelt, and the North Dakota prairie by Peter West (shown at left). Members also capture street photos in central Asia by Elaine and Phil Pasquini, Japan by Joanne Bamberger, Kyiv in 2010 before the conflicts by Skip Kaltenheuser, rural Maine by Christopher Devine, and Washington, D.C., images by Pender McCarter, Nisan Ahmado and Peter Urban. In addition, exhibit participants use their cameras to display artistic images, with Jim Dandridge combining street and art photography in Colombia and Ben Lowenthal, black-and-white images from Italy evoking memories of filmmaker Federico Fellini. Noel-Marie Fletcher captures abstract art in everyday scenes, while Diane Stamm displays an artistic arrangement of horse manes at the National Zoo. Plus, Aretha Williams displays artistic photography combined with street and protest themes by Black and indigenous peoples. As part of the annual show, NPC's Photography Team is remembering Maksim Levin, a Ukrainian photojournalist, captured and reportedly executed by Russian forces in March 2022. The exhibit includes four print photos shot by Levin for Reuters, which provided the images for display.