WHNPA member and European Pressphoto Agency Jim Lo Scalzo recent work on Smith Island was featured in the Boston Globe’s Big Picture.
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1921: Thomas Edison takes a nap while Harvey Firestone and President Warren Harding read the newspaper. Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison and President Harding, (who arrived in a Packard, not a Ford), motored to the Firestone estate in Maryland for an afternoon of relaxation. The National Photo Company went […]
For photographers in Washington 90 years ago it was about access. Writers can listen or hear the story retold. For still and video photographers you’ve got to be there. Whatever the event or wherever it may be. This is the backbone of WHNPA’s history. Today some refer to this access […]
Helen Thomas, who would become the dean of the White House press corps and I arrived on our new beats at the White House at the same time, after the inaugural of John F. Kennedy as President in 1960. We were both working for the same company, United Press. From […]
WHNPA member Dennis Brack is publishing his book, “Presidential Picture Stories: Behind the Cameras at the White House” which is expected in stores by December 2013. Keep up to date with news about the book at its Facebook page.
Exhibit Features Images From First-ever National Political Photo Competition The White House News Photographers Association and the Carroll Square Gallery announce the opening of the exhibit: White House News Photographers Association: National Eyes of History 2013 on Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, with a reception from 6:00–8:00pm. The exhibition will remain […]
WHNPA member Mary F. Calvert’s important work on sexual assault in the United States mililtary is featured in the New York Times “Lens Blog”.
FotoDC’s International Awards Competition is looking for extraordinary work! Now in its sixth year, the FotoDC International Awards Competition continues to innovate and find new ways to engage and honor photographers from our region and around the world. EXHIBITION AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DURING FOTOWEEKDC 2013 – FotoDC and the National […]
View work WHNPA member Allison Shelley and her Pulitzer Center project “Chaupadi: Nepali Women’s Monthly Exile” and the barriers to reproductive health care faced by women in rural Nepal.
Congratulations to Mary F. Calvert who was awarded the Canon Female Photojournalist Award 2013.
Copies of the Eyes of History 2013 Yearbook can now be purchased HERE
The White House News Photographers Association would like to thank Steve Thomma, the new president of the White House Correspondents Association, and the new WHCA board for voting unanimously to take down official White House photos from their website and replace them with news photos of the president solicited from […]
The photographic world lost a great friend this week. Bob Gilka nurtured generations of National Geographic photographers, inspiring them to produce timeless images during his watch as Director of Photography at the magazine from 1963 until 1985 — a period when circulation soared from 1.5 million to nearly 11 million. […]
Sad news-Nick Pergola passed away this morning at age 94. Borgwardt Funeral Home will handle the arrangements, with Mass at St. Hugh’s in Greenbelt, and burial at Gate of Heaven. We will post additional info soon. On Sunday, February 3, 2013 former UPI-White House Photographer. Husband of the late Vita […]
From TODAY.com’s “4 congresswomen Photoshopped into official group photo”: [blockquote] After posing for that cheesy portrait for the holiday card, we all know about the headaches group portraits can cause. For House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic congresswomen, it’s turned into something of a migraine. On Thursday, the women […]