Members' photo exhibit on display through Friday

The National Press Club's 19th annual members' photo exhibit will be on display in the Club's 13th floor lobby through Friday, Sept. 28. The exhibit features 209 print photos and electronic images from 45 members, up from 147 total entries last year.

This year's electronic exhibit, displayed in continuous slideshows on two large and six smaller monitors, show unforgettable images from D.C. to the South Pacific and beyond. Danny Al-Faruque offers faces of riders from inside crowded Metro trains, while Don North shows the craggy face of a fisherman in Malta, and Diane Stamm captures the mud-caked face of an Amazon River villager in Peru.

Scenes of peace and solitude by Janet Phillips from rural Connecticut and Maggie Dewane's images from Bali and Antarctica, are a startling contrast to D.J. Caufield's photo of firefighters recovering the body of a drowning victim on the Peconic River in Riverhead, New York.

The digital collection presents unique designs and unusual portrayals of familiar places. Craig Shearman captures abstract images from the Beehive structure at Kew Gardens in the U.K., and ferms growing in a Maine forest. And Jim Dandridge provides a unique perspective of Venice, a favorite subject of photographers, with photos of reflections off the city's famous canals.

Individual electronic exhibit images can be viewed online here. A 16 minute slideshow of all images, starting with a list of exhibitors, is also available.