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.
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. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) at the Politico Security Summit, May 2026.
Former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the Politico Security Summit, May 2026.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) at the Politico Security Summit, May 2026.
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.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook at Brookings Institution, Nov. 2025..
Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel at Center for American Progress, Jan. 2026.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) at Center for American Progress, Dec. 2025.
AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler, Apr. 2026
C-SPAN CEO Sam Feist, Feb. 2026
Politico politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin, Feb. 2026
Former CNN correspondent and anchor Jim Acosta, Jan. 2026
Investor and philanthropist David Rubenstein, July 2025
Historian and essayist Heather Cox Richardson, Jan. 2025
Celebrity chef and humanitarian José Andrés, Mar. 2024
Filmmaker Ken Burns, Nov. 2024
Bechtel Corp. chairman and CEO Brendan Bechtel, Dec. 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.
Birds and reptiles photographed in the mid-Atlantic and south Florida, available from the Alamy photo agency.
Alligator photographed at Wakodahatchee Wetlands Park in Del Ray Beach, Florida, April 2025.
Pileated woodpecker in Arlington, Va. April 2024.
Two wood storks crowing from their nest at Wakodahatchee Wetlands Park in Del Ray Beach, Florida, April 2025.
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 Highmark Stadium Wikipedia page.
License: CC BY 2.0