WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 10, 2025 – The White House News Photographers Association® (WHNPA) is proud to announce the winners of its annual ‘Eyes of History®’ visual journalism student competition, marking a year of unprecedented achievements. This year’s competition saw a record-breaking number of submissions in the Still Photography Portfolio […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 10, 2025 – The White House News Photographers Association® (WHNPA) proudly announces the winners of the Digital Storytelling categories in the Digital Storytelling division of its 2025 ‘Eyes of History®’ visual journalism competition. WHNPA President Jessica Koscielniak commented, “This year’s digital storytelling competition is a reminder […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 10, 2025 – The White House News Photographers Association® announced that Ben Martin of ITN has been named the 2025 WHNPA Video Photographer of the Year in the annual ‘Eyes of History®’ video contest. Additionally, Chris Shlemon has been recognized as the 2025 Video Editor of […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 10, 2025 – The White House News Photographers Association® announced that photographer Jabin Botsford of The Washington Post has been named WHNPA 2025 Photographer of the Year, and Evan Vucci of the Associated Press has been awarded Political Photo of the Year in the still photojournalism […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 10, 2025 – The White House News Photographers Association® announced that it will honor Susan Walsh, a recently retired Associated Press staff photographer and past WHNPA president, and Mike Horan, retired video photographer from WTTG-TV, FOX 5, with the association’s Lifetime Achievement award at the 2025 […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 3, 2025) – The White House News Photographers Association® has announced that it has reached a multi-year partnership agreement with Nikon, and that they will remain the exclusive camera and lens sponsor of the association. Nikon is considered one of the premier imaging brands for visual […]
Still Photography Video Photography Video Editing Digital Storytelling Student contest judges coming soon!
The White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA) strongly condemns the Trump Administration’s decision to restrict the access for Associated Press still photojournalists and reporters as an act of retaliation for the company’s editorial decisions. These actions represent an unacceptable denial of access to journalists fulfilling their professional duties and adhering […]
On August 29th, 2024 the White House News Photographers Association sent the following letter to the Harris campaign. The letter was also endorsed by other media organizations impacted by the reduction of still photojournalist access to covering Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign. Based on precedent, the letter details the WHNPA’s […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 8, 2024) – The White House News Photographers Association has announced Mary Bruce, as the host and emcee of the 103rd WHNPA ‘Eyes of History®’ awards gala to be held on June 1, 2024, at Washington’s Ritz Carlton Hotel. The top winners of the still, video, […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 2, 2024) – The White House News Photographers Association® announced that they will present Bill Alberter, a video photographer with CNN, and legendary still photographer David Burnett with the association’s Lifetime Achievement honor at the 2024 ‘Eyes of History®’ annual awards gala on June 1, 2024. […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – Feb. 18, 2024) – The White House News Photographers Association® announced that Minh Tran Connors of the University of Missouri has been named the WHNPA 2024 Student Still Photographer of the Year and in the 11th year of the student video division, Brett Phelps of Western Kentucky […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – Feb. 18, 2024) – The White House News Photographers Association® announced the winners of the Digital Storytelling categories of the Digital Storytelling division of the association’s 2024 ‘Eyes of History®’ visual journalism competition. Zoeann Murphy of The Washington Post was selected as Multimedia Visual Journalist of the […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – Feb. 18, 2024) – The White House News Photographers Association® announced that Edward Young of Sky News has been awarded the 2024 WHNPA Video Photographer of the Year in the annual ‘Eyes of History®’ broadcast contest, and Stuart Cohen of PBS Newshour has been named the 2024 […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – Feb. 18, 2024) – The White House News Photographers Association® announced that photographer Doug Mills of The New York Times has been named WHNPA 2024 Photographer of the Year and Win McNamee of Getty Images has been awarded Political Photo of the Year in the Still contest […]