Washington, D.C.: Memorable Images from 2021 (photos by Jeff Malet)
By • December 31, 2021 0 2718
2021 saw a partial resumption of activities in the District suggesting better times ahead. It was also a year marked by political turmoil.
Click on the photo icons below for a slideshow of our images of the past year from the camera of Jeff Malet.
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- March 4, 2021. Workers begin the dismantling of the First Amendment Tablet from the Newseum on Pennsylvania Ave. The building had earlier been sold to Johns Hopkins University. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- September 26, 2021. Over 687,000 white flags symbolizing the lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States stood near the Washington Monument. The art installation, titled “In America: Remember”, was created by local artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- March 6, 2021 A ring of fencing and razor wire surrounds the Capitol complex. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- Resembling gladiators, a strong contingent of police stood guard in full riot gear at a “Justice for J6” rally on Sept. 18, 2021. Photo by Jeff Malet.
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- A strong contingent of police stood guard in full riot gear at a “Justice for J6” rally on Sept. 18, 2021. Photo by Jeff Malet.
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- July 1, 2021 Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduces the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- December 9, 2021. Former U.S. Senator Bob Dole’s wife Elizabeth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley watch as Dole’s casket is carried up the U.S. Capitol East Steps by a joint forces military honor guard ahead of a Congressional memorial service, where it will lie in state. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- August 5, 2021. Tennis great Rafael Nadal made his initial appearance at the Citi Open before eventually losing to 24 year old South African, Lloyd Harris. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- Teen sensation Cori “Coco” Gauff participates in the Citi Open on August 7, 2021. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- LOVE/HATE November 9, 2021. Sculptor Mia Florentine Weiss sits atop her creation in Farragut Square in Washington D.C. An ambigram is a calligraphic design that when flipped over either remains unchanged, or mutates to reveal another meaning. In LOVE HATE, each of the two words carries the opposite meaning when looked at from behind. “Love” as written becomes “Hate” and vice versa. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- October 2, 2021. “Fifth Women’s March” where supporters of reproductive rights gathered on Freedom Plaza in D.C. before marching down Pennsylvania Avenue and past the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- October 3, 2021. At the D.C. Turksih Festival. The Whirling Dervish performer was Tulga Kamis of Ankara Turkey. The whirling dervishes are part of the Mevlevi Order, a sect of Sufism born in the 13th century, also known as the Mevlevis. The goal of the whirling is for the dervish to “empty” himself of all distractions (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- October 3, 2021 The photo of Charlotte Weir as she prepared to dance for the sultan – on stage with the “Nomad Dancers” at the Turkish Festival in Washington D.C. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- October 23,, 2021. 40,000 rugby enthusiasts gathered at Fedex Field just outside Washington D.C. for a rare opportunity to see one of the most elite teams in the world, the New Zealand All Blacks, face off against the United States men’s national rugby union team, nicknamed the Eagles. In photo, Luke Jacobson of New Zealand breaks from USA’s Hanco Germishuys’s grip to score a try. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- December 1, 2021 abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters gathered as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over a Mississippi challenge to abortion rights that threatens to gut Roe v. Wade. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- Oct 2, 2021 “Fifth Women’s March” where supporters of reproductive rights gathered on Freedom Plaza in D.C. before marching down Pennsylvania Avenue and past the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- Sept. 26, 2021. Justin Theroux playing G. Godon Liddy, and Domhnall Gleeson as John Dean during the filming of a scene for the upcoming HBO series called “The White House Plumbers” based on the Watergate scandal. on city street just west of the White House. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- August 21, 2021. At DC’s Awesome Con pop culture festival. Kangelic Cosplay competes as Morgan Le Fey, a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- September 14, 2021. Bowen McCauley Dance Company closed out its 25th and final season with a bang at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Dancers Alison Bartels and Justin Metcalf-Burton. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- August, 11, 2021. The Ragamala Dance Company at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the world premiere of “Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim.” (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- Sept. 12, 2021. Aparna Ramaswamy of the Ragamala Dance Company at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. for the world premiere of “Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim.” (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- September 1, 2021. After a year off due to the pandemic, the popular 17th Annual DC Jazz Festival returned to the District. 8-time Grammy Award nominated Joshua Redman opened the Festival at the House of Sweden (photo by Jeff Malet).
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- May 30, 2021. Memorial Day Weekend. Rolling to Remember: On Third Street near the Capitol. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- August 28, 2021 Thousands march in Washington D.C for voting rights on anniversary of MLK speech.
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- Hundreds gathered near the Capitol on the National Mall on July 11, 2021 to protest the “unprecedented outburst of antisemitism in the U.S.” (Photo by Jeff Malet)
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- May 1, 2021. Billed as the “Mega Marcha del Inmigrante”, hundreds of activists marched down Pennsylvania Ave. NW in D.C. demanding immigration reform for 11 million undocumented, DACA, TPS, and essential workers.
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- July 14, 2021. The “#FreeBritney” movement was launched in 2019 to liberate pop idol and singer Britney Spears from an onerous legal conservatorship. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- September 26, 2021. Wilson Crew participates in the the Charlie Butt Regatta on the Potomac River. Wilson Crew is the oldest high school rowing program in the District of Columbia and remains the only public school rowing program in DC. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- September 29, 2021. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) holds a copy of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill as the Republican Senate leadership speaks with reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- July 27, 2021. Hundreds of advocates for voting and civil rights assembled for a candlelight vigil on Black Lives Matter Plaza, a few blocks from the White House. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- October 20, 2021. William Shatner, 90, appears at Awesome Con in D.C. just 2 months before his epic space flight. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- October 21, 2021 President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris were speakers at the MLK Memorial 10th Anniversary celebration (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- October 21, 2021 Photo taken during the MLK Memorial 10th Anniversary celebration (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- June 6, 2021. Armed Forces Cycling Classsic in Clarendon Va. The cyclist is Kyle Tiesler of BSCG / Support Clean Sport / Guttenplan Coaching. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- July 4, 2021. Reyna (age 7) from Birmingham Ala. says hello to stiltwalker Grace as Uncle Sam’s niece, Samantha. on the National Mall (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- July 4, 2021. Fireworks again draw a huge crowd on the National Mall (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- April 16, 2021. At the opening of the new National World War I Memorial in Washington D.C. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- September 12, 2021. Carolina Hernandez represents the culture of Colombia at the Fiesta DC Parade of Nations on Constitution Ave.(photo by Jeff Malet)
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- October 27, 2021. The Woman of Congress each year battle the women members of the Press in Softball. Proceeds benefit Young Survival Coalition, the premier global organization dedicated to the critical issues unique to young adults who are diagnosed with breast cancer. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- Sept. 29, 2021. It was arguably one of the best games in the 112-year history of the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity as the Republicans defeated the Democrats 13-12 at Nationals Park. Rep. Steve Scalise, who was seriously injured by a gunman in 2017 here lifts the trophy in celebration (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- December 18, 2021. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jason Henderson and wife Lt. Cmdr. Ashley Henderson with daughter Clarabel lay a wreath for their friend Kara Hultgreen, the first woman to fly the Navy’s F-14 in a combat squadron and the first female fighter pilot to die in the line of duty. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- December 18, 2021. Arlington National Cemetery as thousands gathered on Saturday, Dec. 18, to participate in Wreaths Across America by laying holiday wreaths over each of the more than 257,000 gravesites of military servicemen and women interred there. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- December 6, 2021. Every year, a different national forest is selected to provide a tree to appear on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol building for the holiday season. The 2021 tree came from the Six Rivers National Forest in California. (photo by Jeff Malet)
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- November 15, 2021. Dawn. The suns rays filter through the US Capitol Rotunda (photo by Jeff Malet)
