Photojournalist covering the White House, politics, & news in Washington, usually for
@nytimes
or
@bloombergimages
.
Exploring the rise of news deserts in N.C.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, holds her smart phone with former US President Donald Trump on the line, as Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican from Montana, waves it off during a meeting of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber on Friday.
#SpeakerVote
I tested positive for COVID-19 this past Friday while on assignment at the White House the weekend before covering the Supreme Court nominee announcement in the Rose Garden.
I am quarantining in my apartment in DC and am beginning to feel better, and of course staying positive!
Monday: Thomas Jefferson
Tuesday: Benjamin Franklin
Wednesday: JFK
Patrick Jackson, husband of Ketanji Brown Jackson, wears socks depicting founding fathers during Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings this week.
#socks
#KBJ
#SCOTUS
White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump & Pastor Paula White pray with Marta Torres, whoโs son is receiving a kidney transplant today, while delivering food boxes as part of the Farmers to Families Food Box Distribution program in Woodbridge, Virginia on Monday.
@IvankaTrump
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrive during the Kennedy Center Honorees Reception on Sunday.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 45th Honorees for lifetime artistic achievements include George Clooney, Amy Grant, Tata Leon, Gladys Knight, and U2.
Senate Pat Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, delivered his final floor speech following 48 years in the Senate this morning, and was joined by his wife, Marcelle Pomerleau, family, and staff.
#Leahy
President Joe Biden and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson watch the Senate vote for her nomination to the Supreme Court, in the Rosevelt Room of the White House, on Thursday.
#KBJ
#SupremeCourt
Ivanka Trump puts a box of food as part of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, into a car during a drive-through pickup at the Pentecostal Church of God In Christ, in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Also in attendance: Sonny Perdue, Scott Turner, and Paula White.
Clarification: I covered the Rose Garden ACB nomination ceremony on 9/26. Traveled w/ POTUS to golf and covered his evening briefing with Christie & Rudy on 9/27.
Symptoms hit later that week; test taken Friday, 10/2 (ASAP after symptoms) and returned immediately positive.
The presidential limousine, known as โThe Beast,โ parked outside of a Sheetz gas station during an unannounced visit with President Joe Biden, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrive in the Cross Hall during the Kennedy Center Honorees Reception at the White House on Sunday.
#KennedyCenter
The people you run into walking into work...
Actor John Krasinski speaks with Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff in Lafayette Park outside the White House on Friday.
Krasinski is in DC filming season three of Jack Ryan.
@SecondGentleman
@johnkrasinski
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is sworn in as Arkansas' 47th governor by US District Judge Brian Miller, at the Arkansas State Capitol on Tuesday, in Little Rock.
#SarahHuckabeeSanders
#Arkansas
A campaign sign for President Donald Trump lies beneath water in the Capitol Reflecting Pool, near the West Front of the Capitol on Saturday.
#capitol
#trump
President Joe Biden pays respects to his uncle, World War II veteran Ambrose J, Finnegan, Jr., at the Veterans War Memorial in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday.
The tenth round of voting for House Speaker begins.
Representative Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, center, during a meeting of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber on Thursday.
#HouseSpeaker
#McCarthy
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris departs the Senate floor after voting against Judy Sheltonโs nomination to the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
#kamalaharris
#biden
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York, arrives with his associate Lev Parnas before a state funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington, on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018.
#trump
#politics
#Parnas
#Giuliani
I'm covering former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's funeral today in Washington.
I'm reminded of my favorite photo I made of her, as she hugs George Clooney during a Refugee Summit at the United Nation in 2016.
#MadeleineAlbright
President Donald Trump tees off as he golfs at Trump National Golf Club, on Saturday, shortly after the presidential race was called for Joe Biden.
#Election2020
#trump
Guests gather on the South Lawn of the White House for the wedding of Naomi Biden, 28, granddaughter of President Joe Biden, and Peter Neal, 25, on Saturday.
#Biden
#Wedding
Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider
@Jeopardamy
pops into the White House briefing room as she promotes
#transgender
rights on Transgender Day of Visibility, on Thursday.
#Jeopardy
A member of the National Guard creates a snowman, dubbed "Sgt. Snow," behind a barbed wire security perimeter outside the Capitol in Washington on Monday.
#SnowMan
#WashingtonDC
President Donald Trump tees off while golfing at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA on Saturday. Trump was scheduled to spend the weekend at his club in Bedminster, NJ but cancelled his trip yesterday afternoon.
#golf
Just putting the finishing touches on my speech for
@ElonUniversity
's commencement this Friday morning! Any last minute tips I should include?
#ElonGrad
@ElonAlumni
A hearse carrying the casket of Brian Sicknick, U.S. Capitol Police Officer who died from injuries following the Capitol building siege on Wednesday, turns onto Constitution Avenue during a police procession, on Sunday in Washington.
#capitol
#police
President Donald Trump takes a selfie with military members during a refueling stop at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, during an unannounced trip, Dec. 27, 2018.
#TrumpTroopsVisit
President Biden & First Lady Biden arrive during the Kennedy Center Honorees Reception on Sunday.
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 46th Honorees for lifetime artistic achievements include Billy Crystal, Queen Latifah, Renรฉe Fleming, Barry Gibb and Dionne Warwick.
President Donald Trump arrives in the Washington Suite for Game 5 of the World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros in DC Sunday evening.
#WorldSeries
#baseball
#trump
Dave Thomas Circle, one of the DC's most notorious intersections at New York Ave & Florida Ave NE that featured a Wendy's restaurant, is demolished on Wednesday.
The Beaver 'blood' Moon partial lunar eclipse is seen above the Washington Monument in Washington early Friday morning, making it the longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years.
#LunarEclipse
#bloodmoon
#beavermoon
The North Portico of the White House is illuminated in red, white, and blue before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympic games, on Thursday in Washington.
#Olympics
"I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo."
President Trump makes a statement from his handwritten notes as he refutes Ambassador Sondland's testimony, before departing for a day trip to Texas.
People gather in Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House as they celebrate Joe Biden winning the presidency, on Saturday.
#Elections2020
#biden
@JoeBiden
Virginia Governor-Elect Glenn Youngkin speaks with Bre Kingsbury, from Virginia Beach, Va., as they visit the grave of Chief petty officer Brett Shadle, at Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, as a part of the Wreaths Across America project, on Saturday.
Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat from Colorado and 2020 presidential candidate, rides a bumper car with his daughter, Anne, 15, during the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Sunday.
#IowaStateFair
Great writeup of
@jabinbotsford
, myself, and the one and only Pat Semansky chasing POTUS golfing from afar this past weekend.
(running sneakers required!)
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk with Trauma Surgeon Dr. Igor Nichiporenko, as they greet medical professionals who have been helping with the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, at Broward Health North Hospital in Pompano Beach, Fla.
Former President Barack Obama kisses former US First Lady Michelle Obama as their official White House portraits are unveiled in the East Room on Wednesday. The portraits, commissioned by the White House Historical Association, were painted by Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung.
I am honored that my photo story "Ketanji Brown Jackson: Judge to Justice," has placed third place in the
@northernshort
, as well as the
@NPPA
Best of Photojournalism Competition.
Looking forward to documenting more stories in 2023.
#NPPA
#BOP
#visualjournalism
A plane flies past the Pentagon as the U.S. Air Force Memorial is seen in the foreground.
This photo was taken at 8.46am EDT on September 11, 2021, exactly 20 years after the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
#September11
Sweat runs down the cheek of Rudy Giuliani, personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Thursday.
#trump
#rnc
#RudyGiuliani
#sweat
Attorney General Bill Barr arrives for an unannounced meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday afternoon in the Capitol.
#Election2020
Photos from President Trump's secret trip to al Asad Air Base, Iraq. He held a roundtable meeting with diploยญmatic and militยญary persoยญnnel, took photos with
@Flotus
& troops in a dining hall, and held a rally in a hanger.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) rides the subway to the Capitol on Wednesday, before an expected House vote on a resolution which would censure him and remove him from the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
#Gosar
An aerial view shows the crumbled road on top of the Dali container vessel after striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed into the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland on Tuesday.
Iโve had a few front pages
@thetimesnews
when I was an intern in 2013-2013, but this is pretty cool. Still hasnโt hit me yet what a special day yesterday was.
President Donald Trump offers floral respects at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial at Raj Ghat in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020.
#Trump
#India
#TrumpInIndia
The Dali container vessel after striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed into the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
The commuter bridge collapsed after being rammed by the Dali ship, causing vehicles to plunge into the water.
House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi smiles as children exclaim her name as she votes for herself during the opening of the 116th Congress in the House Chamber.
#bloomberg
A plastic skeleton sits at the bar as a television screen shows the
#ImpeachmentTrial
against former President Donald Trump, in a bar on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.
#WashingtonDC
#impeachment
Members of the U.S. Capitol Police bike team lower the American flag at the Capitol, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff, following the death of Officer Brian Sicknick.
#flag
#capitol
I was planning on being at Mar-a-Lago for Christmas (my family flew ahead and is there now). However, due to the government shutdown I am remaining in DC with POTUS. And thus I present my Christmas dinner.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has tested positive for COVID-19.
Here is my pool photo, (taken from about six feet away) of meeting with Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, on Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
21 Democratic presidential candidates take the stage with House Minority Whip Jim Clyburn at the conclusion of his World Famous Fish Fry event in Columbia, South Carolina, on Friday.
Angelina Jolie arrives during an event celebrating the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act at the WH on Wednesday.
The Senate last week passed a full year $1.5 trillion federal funding bill which included the reauthorization of the VAWA, which expired in 2019.
People throw snowballs at each other during a snowball fight, organized by
@dcsnowball
, on the National Mall on Sunday. It is the first time
#WashingtonDC
has received more than a half inch of snow in more than two years.
#snowballfight
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for Sunday service at St. John's Episcopal Church, across from the White House in Washington.
#church
#trump
Sen. Bernie Sanders falls after diving for catch while pitching for "The Revolutionaries," as they played against the Leaders Believers Achievers Foundation at the "Field of Dreams" movie site in Dyersville, Iowa on Monday.
@LBA_Foundation
Charlie Wood, 6, from Charlottesville, Va., uses bandages to stick GoFundMe pages of patients who had use crowd funding to cover medical expenses, to the PhRMA Headquarters, as her mother Rebecca looks on during a rally for Medicare for All hosted by National Nurses United.
Discarded newspapers outside of the former building of the News & Record in downtown Greensboro, NC on Friday.
The building was condemned today, and will be demolished soon, making way likely for luxury apartments.
The N&R moved out in 2020 as NC papers continue to shrink.
4 Years Apart
Photo 1: Early morning runners at the Lincoln Memorial on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016.
Photo 2: A woman & her dog watch the sun rise on Wednesday morning, as the election results between President Trump & Joe Biden continue to come in, Nov. 4, 2020.
#Election2020
Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, listens to closing statements during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday. Cohen brought documents to back up his case that his former boss is a "con man" and "a cheat."
More than 125 firefighters respond to a 2-alarm fire in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, DC on Friday.
The blaze began in a former fire station, and spread next door to a building under construction. The roof has collapsed, and
@dcfireems
is in a defensive attack.