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Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Crowley offers news photography insights, May 13

May 7, 2020. Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times senior photographer Stephen Crowley will discuss how news photos can convey humanity, irony, and humor as well as news in an online presentation with National Press Club's Photography Team and Washington Photography Roundtable.

The joint virtual meeting takes place at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13, via the video conferencing service Zoom. Registration is required by Monday, May 11, to receive log-in instructions. The event is free.

Crowley is a winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography along with four other New York Times photographers for their coverage of the war in Afghanistan. That same year the White House News Photographers' Association recognized Crowley as its Photographer of the Year for his work in Afghanistan and a photo essay on a day in the life of President Bush. In 2001, he was part of a team at the New York Times that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on race in America.

In his talk with the Club's Photography Team and Photography Roundtable, Crowley will provide insights from his career and offer examples of infusing humanity, irony, and humor in his personal work, with images of the country's character as hinted by physical structures, shifting light patterns, and happenstance. After his talk, Crowley will take questions from participants for 15 minutes.

Questions? Contact Photo Team co-chair Alan Kotok at alankotok@gmail.com or Photographer Roundtable founder Marshall Cohen at bigmarsh@verizon.net.

Reprinted from National Press Club web site: https://www.press.org/newsroom/pulitzer-prize-winner-stephen-crowley-offers-news-photography-insights-may-13

Photos of life and work amid coronavirus now on display

May 3, 2020. Images captured by National Press Club members and staff of their work and day-to-day life in this unique moment in history are now on display in an online gallery.

View the photos here.

While many of the photos sent in from the 45 members and staff show scenes probably considered routine in normal times, these are hardly normal times. Other images depict healthcare workers and ordinary citizens helping out people in need.

The gallery, organized by the Club's Photography Committee, displays the effects of Covid-19 lockdowns. Images show emptied-out venues from the usually bustling Embarcadero in San Francisco and quais in Paris, to the boardwalk at Ocean City, and food stalls at Eastern Market in Washington, D.C. Photos also show social-distanced seating arrangements for a cancelled garden party and social distancing practiced at a family funeral.

Many more photos display work-from-home arrangements by members and staff, including a television interview in progress from a living room. And many other photos show family activities and pets, both with and without face masks.

Ed Hazelwood, for example, contributed photos of healthcare staff as they tested patients at the drive-through Covid-19 testing site in Arlington, Va., and Nancy Shia's contribution shows a passerby in the Adams Morgan section of Washington helping a person who collapsed on the street.

More than 100 photos are now on display in the Coronavirus Life gallery, with more recently arriving photos expected to be posted shortly. The Club's membership department and web site manager are still accepting photos for the collection. Send your photos as email attachments to members@press.org and include a caption and credit for each.

Reprinted from National Press Club web site: https://www.press.org/newsroom/photos-life-and-work-amid-coronavirus-now-display