Enter images in annual Club photo exhibit by Aug. 16

National Press Club members are invited to enter their best digital images and print photos in this year's members photography exhibit.

For the 25th straight year, Club members can display their work in the Club's main lobby during the whole month of September. Download the instructions for taking part in the exhibit. Entries are accepted through Aug. 16.

The Club's annual celebration of visual storytelling is an exhibit, not a contest. No judges evaluate the pictures, nor are prizes awarded. Members can enter up to four digital images and two print photos for the show that runs Sept. 3 through 30.

Digital images are displayed across the 13th floor lobby on big screen monitors in continuous slideshows, along with print photos mounted on fabric display panels. And an online exhibit catalog presents images and photos entered by each participant.

The Club's Photo Team asks members to enter their best digital images and photos -- those not shown in previous annual NPC exhibits --  either recent shots or from earlier, in color or black-and-white. Entries can be related to your work, or from travels and local experiences, that capture important moments, people, or events. Plus, entries can show colors or perspectives not often found in everyday photos, or display a story you captured at the right place and right time. Most exhibit participants are amateur photographers, but still media pros who know a good image when they see it.

NPC members can enter their digital images and print photos on the same entry form, with entries accepted through Aug. 16. For those entering print photos, the specifications give instructions for mounting, packaging, and delivery of prints. Please note that entries are accepted from NPC members only, not work associates or family members. But feel free to bring colleagues and family to the exhibit in the main Club lobby during September to see the images and photos on display.

This is the 25th straight year for the exhibit. For the show's landmark anniversary, the Photo Team is honoring Marshall Cohen, the founder of the Club's Photo Committee who started the exhibit in 1999. Also in the honorary Silver Circle are Club members Christy Bowe and Jim Dandridge, who along with Cohen, contributed photos to every exhibit since it began.

In the last two years, the exhibit set participation records with well over 200 digital images and photos from more than 50 NPC members each year. And make plans to attend the exhibit's gala opening reception on Wednesday, Sept. 4. More details about the reception will be available later in August.