Valerie Plesch
@ValeriePlesch
Freelance photojournalist covering the DC region + beyond. 🇦🇷🇻🇳. Prev. in Kosovo + Afghanistan. @columbiajourn alum. @pulitzercenter grantee
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http://www.valerieplesch.com 13-01-2012 04:06:31
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Photographing this colorful #LunarNewYear story by Joe Heim was such a wonderful experience. On Saturday the #Vietnamese community gathered at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia to celebrate #Tết as part of the La Vang Lunar New Year Festival
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…
A protester demonstrates as Jack Lew, President Biden's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill today #photojournalism
Rachel Leah Siegel Emily Badger Larry Buchanan Dror Poleg 🎗 To examine what that might look like, Valerie Plesch and I visited two projects in NoVA that are already up and running.
A former SEC office that’s now a wellness club (!) and a government building turned elementary school.
Take a look with us:
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…
On the front page of today’s The Washington Post:
Some empty office towers are being turned into apartments.
But faced with growing vacancies, some cities are looking outside the box — and filling empty buildings with spas, breweries and urban farms.
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…
“Any topic on immigration, whether it's about the border, about Dreamers, about Afghans, about even high-skilled immigrants who can really contribute to our economy, Congress is really struggling to act on immigration,” said Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst MigrationPolicy Inst
“The most exclusive theater in the world” - we had to pinch ourselves when the The White House invited us to show our little movie UNCONDITIONAL in the private theater that heads of state have watched films at since 1942.
Valerie Plesch JAY ALLEN Dr. Jill Biden Elizabeth Dole Foundation
Dramatic footage from the streets of Zvecan by Radio Evropa e Lirë. Kosovo police confirms five people were arrested, while at least 41 NATO Kosovo Force - KFOR soldiers were injured, most of them Italian and Hungarian troops.
Afghans who fled to the US hope that Congress will fix their status.
By Valerie Plesch
theworld.org/stories/2023-0…