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AP in Action
AP is justifiably proud of its journalists. As the world's largest news agency and the most essential resource for news as it happens, we are on the front lines - often literally - when news happens.
AP photographers cover the White House
Presidential moments from AP
AP photographers – an essential resource for visual journalism
AP 2009 Pulitzer finalists and previous winners
The detention of AP photographer Bilal Hussein
Eyewitness to 9/11 – AP photographers talk about their images
AP's first-person coverage
BREAKING NEWS – Why not a camera? (Photo chapter)
>>AP photographers cover the White House
For the journalists of the world’s oldest and largest news agency, the mandate of covering
the White House remains the same as it was in Lincoln’s day: be accurate, be fair and be
fast. For photographers, who can never catch up to a missed opportunity, it means always keeping your eye on the president.
Ron Edmonds
Based in Washington, D.C., AP Senior White House Photographer Ron Edmonds has covered every United States president since Richard Nixon. On March 20, 1981, a couple of months after becoming president, Ronald Reagan was shot by a would-be assassin. Edmonds’ exclusive photos of the assassination attempt earned him the Pulitzer Prize, one of four Pulitzers won by AP photographers for their coverage of the presidency.
Edmonds talks about what goes into his images. Washington, D.C.
J. David Ake
J. David Ake is AP’s assistant chief of bureau for photos in Washington. He has more than 25 years of photo experience, including six covering the White House during the first Bush and Clinton presidencies. In “This Week In Washington,” an AP video segment, Ake explains how, exactly, his team captured some of the week’s best images.
AP photographers take us on a tour of President Obama's recent trip to Europe and Iraq (April 13)
The AIG hearings (March 22)
President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (March 8th)
President Obama’s speech to Congress (March 2)
The Faces of Washington (Feb. 9)
>>Presidential moments from AP
Ever since Zachary Taylor and the Whig Party took over the White House more than 150 years ago, AP reporters and photographers have been the dominant source of presidential news for media across America and around the world. AP photographers accompany the president everywhere. Wearying routine and photo ops can yield in an instant to breaking news that moves the world and dominates front pages, broadcasts and Web sites.
The American President
In 2008, AP created a powerful multimedia package about its photographic coverage of the American president comprised of iconic images from AP’s photo archives documenting the U.S. presidency from George Washington to the 2008 campaign frenzy, with an emphasis on the second half of the 20th century. All four of AP’s Pulitzer Prize winners for photo coverage of the White House were represented. The exhibit continues to travel to colleges, museums and news outlets across the Untied States.
View images from “The American President” photo exhibit
The Associated Press has been counting the vote and covering presidential elections since the cooperative was created in 1846. From the statehouse to the White House, no other news organization covers elections on such a scope.
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former AP Washington bureau chief Walter Mears, and veteran AP political reporters and photographers, describe their experiences on the White House beat
>>AP photographers – an essential resource for visual journalism
"Depth of Field" presentations
give AP photographers a forum to describe the remarkable
and demanding experience of covering history and producing
memorable, thought-provoking pictures. You may not know their
names, but you almost certainly know the work of these talented
photographers.
View
all “Depth of Field” presentations
>>AP Pulitzer finalists and previous winners
The Associated Press has won 49 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization in categories for which it can compete. It has 30 photo Pulitzers, the most of any news organization. In 2009, AP was a finalist in two categories.
International Reporting finalist–AP correspondent Rukmini Callimachi
In a startling and beautifully written set of stories, Associated Press correspondent Rukmini Callimachi uncovered three little-known forms of child abuse that affect hundreds of thousands of children in West Africa. She also explored how connections with the West allow it to continue, so that we are horrified but also implicated. All three stories drew wide response from readers and had considerable impact. Read the series (PDF1.5mb) and view the interactives.
Breaking News Photography finalist– AP photographers Andy Wong, David Guttenfelder, Oded Balilty, Eugene Hoshiko, Greg Baker and Ng Han Guan.
When chaos came to Sichuan, China in 2008, Associated Press photographers and their cameras fanned out across the region, risking their safety and their hearts as they moved into the most damaged of neighborhoods and the tiniest of town to help – in their own way – count the dead, chronicle the damage and show the world that the living still soldiered on. View the images.
AP Pulitzer Prize Winners– The Pulitzer Prizes, American journalism's most prestigious honor, were established by Joseph Pulitzer and are presented annually for outstanding achievement. View a complete listing of all AP Pulitzer Prize winners and see all prize-winning photos on AP Images.
>>The detention of AP photographer Bilal Hussein
Bilal Hussein was an AP photographer based in Fallujah, Iraq, and a member of an AP team that won a Pulitzer Prize for photography in 2005. In April 2006, he was imprisoned by the United States military without charge, his captors citing "imperative reasons of security " under United Nations resolutions. Hussein was held for more than two years. On April 9, 2008, an Iraqi judicial panel ordered his release, ruling that he was covered by an Iraqi amnesty law. He was released on April 16, 2008. Bilal Hussein's detention drew protests from rights groups and press freedom advocates. Throughout his incarceration, he maintained his innocence and insisted that he was only doing the work of a professional news photographer in a war zone.
Learn more about AP photographer Bilal Hussein
>>Eyewitness to 9/11 – AP photographers talk about their images
Few stories in AP’s 160-year history have more severely tested the skill, courage, ingenuity and resilience of the entire organization. The attacks of Sept. 11 were more than a professional challenge. The news literally exploded within sight of AP’s New York headquarters and of our Washington bureau driving some staff members from their homes and threatening the personal safety of many others, especially those who raced to cover the unfolding disasters in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon. Shortly before the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, several AP photographers and videographers captured images of the same sites.
View 9/11 five years later
>>AP's first person coverage
More than 160 years on, AP’s mission to tell important stories whenever and wherever they need telling endures. AP journalists throughout the world today face risks and challenges unheard of even in our long history. With more bureaus in more countries than any other agency, there is always an AP reporter, photographer or cameraman ready to cover the news.
Ibrahim Barzak, AP’s chief correspondent in Gaza City for 17 years, has not only covered but lived through Israel's offensive on Gaza that began Dec. 27. (Dec. 2008)
Jerome Delay is AP’s chief photographer for Africa. His images of children coping with strife in Congo have captured attention from the general public and media organizations around the world. (Nov. 2008)
Gemunu Amarasinghe, an Associated Press photographer based in Colombo, was caught in the tidal wave that hit Sri Lanka in December 2004. Amarasinghe went to work, snapping photographs of the surging waters at the same time he had to scramble to save his own life. Amarasinghe and more than a dozen AP photographers and writers recalled their struggles and feelings as they reported on the devastating tsunamis that killed more than 225,000 people in eleven countries -- one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. (Jan. 2005)
Johannesburg-based correspondent Michelle Faul was on the road to Goma with an AP reporting team and came face to face with the unsettling fallout from Congo’s latest violence. For hours, Faul filled her notebook as the scenes unfolded. Two members of the Nairobi staff, photographer Karel Prinsloo and APTN cameraman Josphat Kasire, also went to work with a gripping series of images. (Dec. 2008)
AP photographer Gene Herrick flew to Memphis the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated to cover the story for AP. Herrick had to talk the pilot of the plane into landing in Memphis, because martial law had been declared in the city for fear of riots. On the fortieth anniversary of King’s assassination, Herrick recalled his experiences. (April 2008)
New Orleans reporter Mary Foster’s heroic weeklong stint living with hurricane evacuees inside the Superdome epitomizes the outstanding efforts of all the AP staff who covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. (Oct. 2005)
Washington, D.C.-based photographer Evan Vucci spent two years with AP as both a still photographer and videographer in Iraq. Vucci and AP staffer Maya Alleruzzo chronicled life on the ground in Iraq in a series of video essays. (Feb. 2009)
>>BREAKING NEWS – Why not a camera?
For the men and women who tell a story with a camera, there is no substitute for being on the scene. Reporters can make telephone calls and even interview witnesses after the fact, but a camera can only record what it sees. BREAKING NEWS, the first book about The Associated Press since 1940, takes readers into the bureaus and out to the field to experience firsthand AP’s groundbreaking reporting on war, politics, crime, disasters and sports. Written by veteran journalists and editors, BREAKING NEWS documents AP’s role as eyewitness to history. Their accounts of the story behind the story are as telling as the news itself.
"Why not a camera," the Photo chapter of BREAKING NEWS
AP photographer Paul Vathis tells the story behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of President John F. Kennedy and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
BREAKING NEWS on AP.org
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