Last chance: photo exhibit closes Sept. 30

You have only a few more days to catch the annual National Press Clubmembers photography exhibit, now on display in the Club's main lobby.The 25th annual show presenting 205 digital images and print photos from 53 members closes Monday, Sept. 30.

NPC's Photography Team devotes a segment of the show to honor Marshall Cohen, who started the event in 1999, along with Christy Bowe and Jim Dandridge, who like Cohen have taken part in every one of the 25 annual exhibits. This part of the exhibit, called the SliverCircle, presents three special print photos by Cohen, Bowe, and Dandridge displayed over the years.

The exhibit's images display news photos, as well as sports, travel, wildlife, nature, and art photography. An online show catalog tells about each photographer and image.Jeremy Bigwood, a veteran reporter and historian, offers wartime images of almost-forgotten insurgencies in El Salvador and Peru in the1980s and 90s (Some of these wartime images are graphic and may not be suitable for children.), while photojournalist and filmmaker ZachRoberts captures MAGA supporters of Donald Trump and pro-Palestine protestors at recent demonstrations in D.C.

The exhibit includes a series of images from Club member Susan Dickenson, who leads a grassroots investigative reporting project in Jamestown, N.C., population 3,700. Dickenson says the all-volunteer effort seeks to provide accountability for the local government that allegedly colludes with developers and other businesses to literally bulldoze their community and destroy their quality of life.

Silver Circle honoree Christy Bowe shows President Joe Biden at the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore after the containership crash in March, while Robert Braggs III displays images from the floor of the Republican National Convention, including Sen. J.D. Vance and his wife on their way to accept the nomination for vice-president.The exhibit displays feature photos, such as the images by freelance writer and editor Lorraine Woellert portraying life on Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay. 

And each year the show continues to draw more examples of photography as an art form, with this year's exhibit displaying black-and-white D.C. street photos by Ben Lowenthal, and stunning color images by
Diane Stamm, Peter West, Noel-Marie Fletcher, and Rena Malai.