{"id":1036,"date":"2024-01-31T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T16:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2024-05-23T16:34:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T16:34:47","slug":"current-exhibit-women-photojournalists-of-washington-2024-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/current-exhibit-women-photojournalists-of-washington-2024-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Exhibit | Women Photojournalists of Washington 2024 Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Women Photojournalists of Washington<\/a> (WPOW) is dedicated to education the public about the role of women-identifying visual journalists and fostering their professional success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WPOW holds an annual photography competition for its members. The winning images are collected into a traveling exhibition, which is sent to universities and other institutions around the country. The 2024 exhibition is on display in the McDougall Center gallery January-March 2024. This is a sample of photographs in the exhibit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Photograph
Best in Show – Professional<\/strong>
Shawn Armstrong lays in bed with her mom Ann Brown before they fall asleep at home in Choctaw, OK on May 29, 2023. Shawn\u2019s son Joshua is in jail on a murder charge after he shared drugs with a friend who overdosed. Shawn said the only thing that\u2019s calmed her down and helped her fall asleep during this time has been having her mom rub her arm before they go to sleep. Erin Schaff\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Photograph
Best in Show – Student<\/strong>
President Joe Biden pauses before answering a question in the State Dining Room of the White House Nov. 9. Allison Robbert\/The GW Hatchet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Photograph
A group of 220 migrants, including infants and families, were taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the morning on August 12, 2022 in Eagle Pass, Texas. They crossed the Rio Grande to enter the U.S. and many had made the long perilous journey from Venezuela or Cuba. Data shows a record number of undocumented immigrant crossings at the southwest border for fiscal year 2022. The number topped 2.76 million, breaking the previous annual record by more than 1 million.\n\nSarah L. Voisin\/Washington Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Girl
Rhodes Odendahl, 3, watches the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2023.\n\nAmanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Photograph
Supporters of Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) celebrate her victory during an election watch event on November 8, 2022 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Spanberger, the incumbent, was in a tight race with contender Yesli Vega.\n\nAnna Rose Layden\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Photograph
A Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center resident holds a tambourine during her final performance as part of Sound Impact’s “Use Your Voice” residency in Alexandria, VA, on Friday, May 26, 2023. Sound Impact collaborates with Alexandria Juvenile Detention Center to provide incarcerated youth with live performances and arts-integrated education. The three-day \u201cUse Your Voice\u201d residency culminates in a joint performance – fusing the youth’s words and musical creations with Sound Impact\u2019s live music.\n\nShuran Huang for NPR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Photograph
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leaves her weekly news conference with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 14, 2022.\n\nElizabeth Frantz for Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Photograph
Echoes of everyday life are frozen in a macabre stillness the moment time stopped when Russian bombs rained down on Ukraine\u2019s residential dwellings in liberated towns including Borodianka, Ukraine on April 21, 2022. Civilian things. Scorched plates and melted microwaves. A kitchen table still holds food left uneaten begging the question, \u2018What were they cooking that last day of normal?\u2019 Carol Guzy\/NPR\/Zuma Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Photograph
Traffic moves through high winds and low visibility on Interstate 29 south of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A \u2018bomb cyclone\u2019 drove temperatures dangerously low in the upper Midwest and Great Plains.\n\nAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Photograph
Jockeys wait for the call to post ahead of The Sir Barton Stakes at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday, May 21, 2022.\n\nBonnie Cash \/ UPI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) is dedicated to education the public about the role of women-identifying visual journalists and fostering their professional success. WPOW holds an annual photography competition for its members. The winning images are collected into a traveling exhibition, which is sent to universities and other institutions around the country. The 2024 exhibition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcdougallcenter.missouri.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}