News, event, street, wildlife, sports, and feature photography by Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok is a photographer, journalist, and entrepreneur. As a photojournalist, Kotok shoots for the Alamy stock photo agency and serves as photography chair at National Press Club in Washington, D.C. since 2019.
Photos of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, and World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés, join former V.P. Mike Pence at the Alamy photo agency, Fall 2026.
L-R: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham at Center for American Progress and Denis Mukwege at the Atlantic Council, Sept-Oct 2026
L-R: José Andrés at the Atlantic Council, Sept 2026 and former V.P. Mike Pence at the National Press Club, June 2026.
Birds and reptiles photographed in the mid-Atlantic and south Florida, now available from Adobe Stock.
American oystercatcher, Cape May, N.J., June 2026
Osprey in flight over Groveton, Va., May 2026
Washingtonian magazine’s print issue offers a two-page photo spread, with the publication’s June 2026 issue featuring a photo from an open practice I visited in March of the Old Glory DC rugby club, the area’s Major League Rugby franchise. More about the photo on TechNewsLit Explores.
Recent portrait and interview photos of U.S. senators, members of Congress, state governors, and other dignitaries from both parties are available exclusively from the Alamy agency. Here are a few examples.
Sen. Catherine Cortz Masto (D-NM) at Center for American Progress, July 2026.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) at Punchbowl News, June 2026.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at the National Press Club, June 2026.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) at the Politico Security Summit, May 2026.
Former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the Politico Security Summit, May 2026.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook at Brookings Institution, Nov. 2025..
Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) at Politico Governors Summit, Feb. 2026.
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) at Politico Governors Summit, Feb. 2026.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) at National Press Club, Apr. 2026.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Jan. 2026, at Center for American Progress.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Jan. 2026, at Center for American Progress.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at the National Press Club, Jan. 2026.
Former CNN bureau chief Frank Sesno, Sept 2026
New York Times correspondent Carl Hulse, Sept 2026
CBS News correspondent Robert Costa. June 2026
Politico White House correspondent Dasha Burns, May 2026
ABC News correspondent Bob Woodward, May 2026
Politico politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin, Feb. 2026
Filmmaker Ken Burns, Nov. 2024
Investor and philanthropist David Rubenstein, July 2025
Historian and essayist Heather Cox Richardson, Jan. 2025
Photos of people making news on the streets of Washington, D.C. and surrounding region, available from the Alamy photo agency.
Alexandria, Virginia fireboat demonstrating its firehoses. Alexandria waterfront, 24 Dec. 2025.
National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C. Aug. 2025.
Television news crew interviews Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) outside the Arlington county court house in Sept. 2024.
Photos of Old Glory DC's first home Major League Rugby match on 26 April now online. Earlier photos from the team's open practice to visitors, 28 Mar. 2026, are also available. Both sets of images carry a Creative Commons-Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license.
Highmark Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills, then known as Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y. Sept. 2014. Panorama photo appears on the Ralph Wilson Stadium Wikipedia page.
License: CC BY 2.0