Reception tonight marks opening of 2024 members photo show now on display
The 25th annual National Press Club members photography exhibit is now on display in the Club's main lobby through Sept. 30. The show presents 203 digital images and print photos from 52 members. As part of the exhibit, NPC's Photography Team is honoring Marshall Cohen, who started the event in 1999, along with Christy Bowe and Jim Dandridge, who like Cohen took part in every show since it began.
The exhibit's official opening reception is Wednesday, Sept 4, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. in the First Amendment Lounge. Registration is requested. (Note that the room is different than announced earlier.)
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, with a Silver Circle section highlighting special images from Cohen, Bowe and Dandridge shown in the exhibit since 1999.
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.
Jeremy Bigwood, a veteran reporter and historian, offers wartime images of almost-forgotten insurgencies in El Salvador and Peru in the 1980s and 90s, while Matthew Rodier contributes photos shot in July showing a mass grave near a village in Ukraine, and residents of another village fighting fires started by Russian bombs and rockets. (Some of these wartime images are graphic and may not be suitable for children.)
Silver Circle honoree Bowe shows President Joe Biden at the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore after the container ship crash in March; Robert Braggs III's images are from the floor of the Republican National Convention, including Sen. JD Vance and his wife on their way to accept the nomination for vice president.
New Club member Marideth Joy Sandler contributes sports and action photos, including artists from a dance troupe in Havana, Cuba, like the image shown above.
The exhibit each year attracts more images of photographic art — and this year is no exception, with contributions from returning participants Diane Stamm, Peter West, Noel-Marie Fletcher and Rena Malai. Also, Ben Lowenthal offers his black-and-white D.C. street photos as an art form.