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Roll Call’s Bill Clark snaps up WHNPA wins

Annual Eyes of History contest awards the best in visual journalism across multiple platforms

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer walks through a temporary walkway in the Capitol on May 24, 2022, as the Ohio Clock Corridor undergoes renovations.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer walks through a temporary walkway in the Capitol on May 24, 2022, as the Ohio Clock Corridor undergoes renovations. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Chris Hale
Posted February 21, 2023 at 4:51pm

Roll Call photo editor Bill Clark won multiple accolades in the White House News Photographers Association’s 2023 Eyes of History contest, the results of which were announced on Saturday.

Six of Clark’s photos from 2022 were recognized in the Still Photography category. A photo of Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer walking through the Ohio Clock Corridor, as it underwent renovations, won first place in the On Capitol Hill category.

Clark’s photo of Schumer posing with new Democratic senators in his office won third in that same category.

Schumer, center, poses with newly elected Democratic Sens. Peter Welch of Vermont, left, and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania in Schumer’s office in the Capitol on Nov. 15. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Two of his photos, one of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz showing a document to GOP colleagues during Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, and one of staffers of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen hauling a big, stuffed moose in a Hart Office Building elevator, won Awards of Excellence in the On Capitol Hill category.  

Sen. Ted Cruz shows a document to fellow GOP Sens. Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing on March 2. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Staffers from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s office help unload Marty the Moose from a Hart Senate Office Building freight elevator on June 7. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Clark’s photo of Virginia Sen. Mark Warner rallying for Rep. Abigail Spanberger won an Award of Excellence in the Insider’s Washington category.

Sen. Mark Warner speaks during a Prince William County early voting rally for Rep. Abigail Spanberger in Woodbridge, Va., on Sept. 24. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

His photo of abortion rights and anti-abortion activists won an Award of Excellence in the Domestic News category.

Abortion rights and anti-abortion activists shout at each other outside the Supreme Court on June 21 as they wait for the ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

The Eyes of History contest has been recognizing journalism from WHNPA members since 1941. It is held annually to select the best in visual journalism across still, video and multimedia disciplines.

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