JACQUELYN MARTIN

Staff Photojournalist

Martin photographs politics at the White House and Congress and has circumnavigated the globe as a pool photographer covering every Secretary of State since 2010. She is known for her multidisciplinary enterprise feature packages and is fluent in Spanish.
Bella Bautista, 22, a trans woman from Cartersville, Ga., walks past the U.S. Capitol after attending the World Pride Parade, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A young trans woman’s journey, and her latest destination: World Pride in Washington
Bella Bautista has come to World Pride, determined to be present and to fly the flag of who she is.
 
People attend the World Pride Rally and March at the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, June 8, 2025, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
‘Not just a party:’ World Pride celebrations end with defiant politics on display
After the raucous rainbow-hued festivities of Saturday’s parade, the final day of World Pride 2025 in the nation’s capital kicked off on a more downbeat note.
 
A person wearing rainbow heart sunglasses watches the World Pride parade, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Cloudy skies can’t dim joy as thousands fill nation’s capital for World Pride parade
Gray skies and drizzle gave way to sunshine, multicolored flags and celebrations as the nation’s capital hosted the World Pride parade.
 
A person attends the World Pride parade, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
PHOTOS: World Pride gathers LGBTQ+ advocates in Washington for 50th anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP) — World Pride gathers LGBTQ+ advocates from around the globe. This year, which marks the 50th anniversary of Washington’s Pride festival, is the first time the city is hosting the gathering.
 
Pope Leo XIV's meets Vice President JD Vance after the formal inauguration of his pontificate in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
JD Vance gives Pope Leo XIV a Trump invitation to visit the US
U.S. Vice President JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican. Vance offered Leo a letter from U.S.
 
Rio Sigala, right, and other parents of students at Mundo Verde Public Charter School keep a close eye on a Suburban that they thought held an agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid fears of impending arrests at schools, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. The vehicle turned out to belong to a television cameraman. "As a Latina, seeing how many parents are out here in solidarity makes you feel less alone," Sigala said. "You walk around kind of scared and to see everyone come out, it feels hopeful." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Washington’s Hispanic community fighting fear and rallying help as rumors of an ICE crackdown bubble
A flurry of rumors and unconfirmed media reports has fueled fears that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be descending on schools in Washington, D.C., known to have large Hispanic immigrant populations.
 
With the U.S Capitol seen between them, people sit by signs saying "protect trans kids," and "you can't legislate away trans" as they attend a rally for the Trans Day of Visibility, on the National Mall, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
AP PHOTOS: Under the new Trump administration, Transgender Day of Visibility has a different tone
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of transgender rights gathered on the National Mall on Monday to rally for equality on Transgender Day of Visibility, following a wave of policies signed by President Donald Trump aimed at erasing transgender people from government records, sports and even history.
 
Tears roll down the face of Starlette Thomas, of Bowie, Md., as she holds a chunk of pavement from the Black Lives Matter mural, Monday, March 10, 2025, as the mural begins to be demolished in Washington. "I needed to be here to bear witness," says Thomas, who was present at the 2020 George Floyd protests. "For me the Black Lives Matter sign etched in stone was a declaration of somebodyness and to watch it be undone in this way was very hurtful. To walk away with a piece of that, it means it's not gone. It's more than brick and mortar." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
DC begins removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ plaza near the White House
Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C.
 
Wearing a necklace with her name in Hebrew, Charlotte Gleicher, 7, a first grader at Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital, is helped by her teacher, Dafna Kiverstein, to roll out dough for matzah during a "Matzah Factory" field trip at the JCrafts Center for Jewish Life and Tradition in Rockville, Md., Thursday, April 18, 2024, ahead of the Passover holiday. To be kosher for Passover, which begins next Monday evening, the dough has to be prepared and cooked all within 18 minutes and not allowed to rise. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Children learn matzo making and Passover’s traditions ahead of the Jewish holiday
A group of Washington area first graders had no time to waste — they had matzo to make. The students from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital had just 18 minutes to prep and cook the cracker-like, unleavened Passover staple.
 
FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 14, 2023. AP Washington photographer Jacquelyn Martin recalls how being one of a few female photographers covering news and politics was useful when she was assigned as the press pooler for Blinken's last-minute trip to Israel and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks. Martin said, “Sometimes people not knowing what to make of you works in your favor.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)
AP photographer’s early experiences in Washington helped prepare her to cover wartime diplomacy
Jacquelyn Martin, a photojournalist with The Associated Press in Washington, recalls how she often was one of a few female photographers covering news and politics in the nation’s capital and the fine line she had to walk to ensure access.
 
Maya Johnson, 7, of New York, is playfully swung into the lake by her friends during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color, Friday, July 28, 2023, in Petaluma, Calif., at Walker Creek Ranch. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Summer camp in California gives Jewish children of color a haven to be different together
A summer sleepaway camp in California serves as a haven for Jewish children of color. These campers have the shared experience of often being seen as outliers.
 
Benita Lubic, 86, of Washington, right, with her daughter Wendie Lubic, 60, pose for a photograph by the Supreme Court, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, in Washington. During a May rally in support of abortion rights, Benita Lubic came to the court with a sign saying, "I don't regret my abortion." Her daughter also had an abortion. "We weren't ready to have children or get married," says Wendie Lubic, who later did marry the same man and they have two daughters. "I had an abortion in 1968," says Benita Lubic, "three children was enough and I'm not unhappy about my decision. But I had to see a psychiatrist to get his approval, it was a sham." Lubic and her daughter came out to protest. "I want to protect children who are raped from being denied an abortion," says Benita Lubic, "I'm just sorry that Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't alive to support us." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Protesters turn Supreme Court front into forum on abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — A steady stream of protesters has turned the street in front of the Supreme Court building into an open-air forum encapsulating the fierce national debate over abortion after the leak of a draft opinion suggesting the justices would overturn Roe v.
 
Capri Isidoro, of Ellicott City, Md., looks at her one-month-old baby Charlotte, Monday, May 23, 2022, in Columbia, Md., during a lactation consultation. Charlotte was delivered via emergency c-section and given formula by hospital staff. Isidoro has been having trouble with breastfeeding and has been searching for a formula that her daughter can tolerate well. "If all things were equal I would feed her with formula and breastmilk," says Isidoro, "but the formula shortage is so scary. I worry I won't be able to feed my child." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Baby formula shortage highlights racial disparities
A massive safety recall and supply disruptions have swept many leading formula brands off store shelves.
 
Hasibullah Hasrat, 29, is interviewed at his apartment, in Hyattsville, Md., Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Afghans still adjusting to US: New life, new struggles
For many of the Afghans evacuated to the United States last August, their journey remains very much a work in progress.
 
People cheer after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minn. Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of Floyd. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Guilty verdicts in Floyd’s death bring joy — and wariness
Many Americans reacted with jubilation but also with deep awareness of the progress left to be made after a jury convicted former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the killing of George Floyd.
 
For Peace Corps evacuees, there wasn’t even time for goodbye
The Peace Corps has evacuated about 7,000 volunteers from 60 countries because of the global pandemic.
 
Man dies in COVID-19 outbreak at Maryland nursing home
Maryland health officials say a nursing home resident has died after contracting COVID-19 in an outbreak that has sickened dozens of the facility’s residents and strained its staff.