Photo Essay
Where fullly automatic machine guns is nothing new or strange.
Portfolio
Images from campaign trail and politics in action in Washington, D.C.
Photo Essay
The totality of violence in Iraq and shown through a military junkyard.
Portfolio
Single captures worth a second look. News, features, sports.
Portfolio
Faces amid places in DC and beyond, mostly recent work at POLITICO.
Portfolio
Coverage as 'global war on terrorism' entered its most violent stage.
Photo Essay
Climate impacts to the Heartland have farmers changing land strategy.
Photo Essay
Views from car window of a lonely America during COVID-19.
Photo Essay
Poison and pain remain years after declaration of Superfund.
Photo Essay
Contest steeped in pageantry and tradition: Army-Navy game in Philly.
Portfolio
Conflict regions within India.
Multimedia
Video & multimedia work produced as part of reporting assignments.
Photo Essay
Where a lovable pig character means billions in U.S. trade dollars.
Portfolio
Unusual sculpture garden found in the Nevada frontier.
Photo Essay
Economically depressed towns bring Trump to power.
Photo Essay
Color everywhere, where it's needed most. Public art for all.
M. Scott Mahaskey is a photographer and editor employed at POLITICO based in Arlington, Virginia. Mahaskey’s career highlights include more than twelve months work as an embedded journalist covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Beginning his career in Southern Iowa, Mahaskey has now covered everything from county fairs to national political conventions, small town football to professional baseball along with numerous international assignments to India, UAE, Japan, throughout Europe and elsewhere across the globe. National publication credits include People Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Sports Illustrated, and scores of daily newspapers worldwide. Broadcast credits for still images include CNN, Fox News, NBC Nightly News, ABC’s Nightline and a recent PBS Frontline piece that documented President Trump’s rise to power. Mahaskey’s video work has been used by CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, Discovery Channel and others. Mahaskey has received numerous national and international awards for his photojournalism work including Pictures of the Year International, White House News Photographers Association, American Photography, Photo District News Photo Annual, multiple National Headliner Awards and named 2017 Photographer of the Year at NPPA’s Northern Short Course. Mahaskey is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he holds a Master of Fine Arts in Studio. Phone: 571.733.0032 |