Cliff Owen » Moments

Therapy

newzpix — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:01:19 +0000

Shot with my cell phone from my car window, while stopped for a red light, in old town Alexandria. She was either totally at peace with herself and the world, or in a coma.

My body has been trespassed…

newzpix — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:32:26 +0000

Kori Cioca, 25, was proud to be in the Coast Guard. She loves boating, the water, the honor that comes with military service. But her life was shattered by the fist of a superior when he broke her jaw and then later raped her.

“You think of a Coast Guardsman, you think of somebody in the military holding themselves at a certain level,” Cioca said. “When somebody walks up to you and shakes your hand and says, ‘Thank you for your service,’ little do they know they’re shaking the hand of a man who rapes and beats women in the military. ”

She said she continues to suffer from numbness in her jaw and has nightmares.

“My body hurts every day. My face hurts. I get the most horrible headaches. My body has been trespassed. The honor that I had was stripped from me. I’m no longer proud of myself. People tell me thank you for your service, but my service wasn’t what it was supposed to be,” Cioca said.

complete AP story, by Kimberly Hefling, is here

A Nod to God

newzpix — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:33:24 +0000

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito bows his head as an invocation is said at the start of the National Italian American Foundation 35th Anniversary Convention dinner in Washington.

His Viewpoint

newzpix — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:25:21 +0000

Afghan President Hamid Karzai participates in a discussion with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Thursday, May 13, 2010.

NYT! (again)

newzpix — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:29:35 +0000

The photo editors at the New York Times ‘Lens’ blog have been kind to my images the past year, or so :-)

Pivot Rain

newzpix — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:32:16 +0000

Despite a couple hundred-thousand miles driven down rural roads and highways, I’ve yet to see a pivot irrigation system at work — you know them, those 1/4 mile long trellises that snake through a farmer’s fields. They sit quietly like those dinosaur skeletons on display at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum.

Well, Friday night they were alive in Sudlersville, Maryland and emitting a soft rain. Had it been a tad bit warmer, I just might have done a Gene Kelly dance through the field.

A Heartfelt Moment

newzpix — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:39:38 +0000

Michael Donley, secretary of the Air Force, pauses while speaking during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Fisher House and meditation pavilion for the families of fallen soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, at Dover Air Force Base, Saturday, May 1, 2010.

photographed for the AP

A nice surprise from LIFE

newzpix — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:25:49 +0000

Frames

newzpix — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:10:02 +0000

A Capitol Police officer stands guard in front of the Republican Whip’s office in the U.S. Capitol while Senator Scott Brown, R-Mass., is sworn in by Vice President Biden.

High at 19

newzpix — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:32:47 +0000

I was a sports photo stringer for two local newspapers when I was a teenager in northern Virginia. One evening, when I was just 19 years old, I convinced the powers that be at the Capital Centre, home of the Washington Bullets, to let me photograph the Bullets – 76ers game from the catwalk directly over a basket. All I have from that experience is this single copy from the next day’s newspaper showing Elvin Hayes attempting to stop Dr. J from scoring.