There is no more intense job and no more respected assignment than to be the one news photographer allowed to work on the floor of the House of Representatives during the President’s State of the Union Message. Last Tuesday, that job went to Larry Downing of Reuters. There was no […]
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National Public Radio’s Arun Rath speaks to Washington Post staff photographer Bill O’Leary for All Things Considered’s new series “My Big Break”. In the NPR piece Clear, Sharp And Properly Exposed: How A Photo Made A Career, O’Leary spoke about his January 18, 1990 photo of DC Mayor Marion Barry […]
WHNPA member and Associated Press photojournalist Jacquelyn Martin played a key role in the fortuitous reunion of a missing man and his family. Martin made a cold weather feature of a man resting near a steam vent with a group homeless in Washington, DC Saturday, January 4th. The man who […]
WHNPA member Barry Schlegel, a CNN cameraman, shared these iPhone snaps made from on December 20th, 2013 before President Barack Obama left DC for a winter holiday in Hawaii.