Melina Mara

MELINA MARA is a staff photographer at the Washington Post, covering Capitol Hill and politics. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including daily newspapers and weekly news magazines across the country. Mara has received numerous photojournalism awards from the National Press Photographers Association, Associated Press, and regional competitions. Her Women in the U.S. Senate photography exhibition, from which this book comes, opened at the Smithsonian Institution, where it was...See more

MELINA MARA is a staff photographer at the Washington Post, covering Capitol Hill and politics. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including daily newspapers and weekly news magazines across the country. Mara has received numerous photojournalism awards from the National Press Photographers Association, Associated Press, and regional competitions. Her Women in the U.S. Senate photography exhibition, from which this book comes, opened at the Smithsonian Institution, where it was viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, and continues to be exhibited around the country. See less