Close Up: Photographer Jacquelyn Martin

Jacquelyn Martin joined The Associated Press as a staff photographer in 2006 and is based in Washington, DC. When she’s not shooting for the AP, Martin carves out time to work on personal projects - race, identity, immigration and women’s issues are common themes she explores.

Associated Press staff photographer based in Washington Jacquelyn Martin poses for a portrait at the Jefferson Memorial on August 13, 2014 in Washington. (Photo Courtesy of Anna Kerns)

An award-winning photojournalist, Martin is known for her creative vision and innovative approach. She covers a diverse range of topics, from the White House to the National Spelling Bee, and often accompanies the Secretary of State on diplomacy trips around the globe. In addition to political coverage, she is passionate about documentary storytelling. Martin’s personal photography project and written article on the dangers facing people with albinism in Tanzania was used by the AP and picked up by outlets like National Geographic Online to NPR. In 2014, the project was honored with several awards from the National Press Photographers Association. Martin is also known for her compassionate approach - a weather feature she made in January of 2014 resulted in the reunification of a missing young man with his family.

Prior to working with the AP, Martin was a staff photographer at the Birmingham (Ala.) Post-Herald, and later worked as a freelancer for clients including The New York Times. Her work has been honored by the White House News Photographer’s Association, National Press Photographers Association, and the Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW). Martin is currently the Acting Director, and former president of WPOW, a non-profit that educates the public about the work of female photojournalists.

This Monday, Aug. 24, Martin will takeover AP Images’ Instagram feed with her body of work documenting the U.S. Secret Service, an agency charged with protecting the life of President Barack Obama, which celebrated its 150th birthday this past July. Martin’s photo essay highlights the agency's intricate operations.

Below is a selection of Martin’s outstanding imagery during her time at the Associated Press.

A silhouetted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the University of the Western Cape about U.S.-South Africa partnership in Cape Town, South Africa. On an epic safari through Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton braved Uganda's Ebola outbreak, dealt with a swarm of angry Malawian bees, endured a rare South African snowstorm and shimmied on a dance floor in South Africa, earning the nickname the Secretary of Shake.

Children play under mosquito netting inside a dormitory of the Kabanga Protectorate Center, housed in a walled compound for the Kabanga Primary School, in Kabanga, Tanzania on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. The dorms are overcrowded as more people with albinism have been sent to live at the center by the government for their own safety. In danger from witch doctors, Tanzania's albinos hope their government will start to offer more help. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Barack Obama kisses first lady Michelle Obama during their dance at the Commander-in-Chief Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center during the 57th Presidential Inauguration on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Nick warms himself on a steam grate with three other homeless men by the Federal Trade Commission, just blocks from the Capitol, during frigid temperatures in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014. A winter storm that swept across the Midwest this week blew through the Northeast on Friday, leaving bone-chilling cold in its wake. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Air Force One, carrying President Barack Obama to Cleveland flies over a frozen Lake Erie, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Obama is traveling to Cleveland to talk about the economy and the middle class. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Barack Obama, center, walks as he holds hands with Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was beaten during "Bloody Sunday," as they and the first family and others including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga,, left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. for the 50th anniversary of ìBloody Sunday," a landmark event of the civil rights movement, Saturday, March 7, 2015. From front left are Marian Robinson, Sasha Obama. first lady Michelle Obama. Obama, Boynton and Adelaide Sanford, also in wheelchair. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Davonna Clyde, of Sarver, Pa., holds her daughter Lauren Clyde as they stand in a shaft of light while waiting for the arrival of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, for his announcement that he is entering the Republican presidential race, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, in Cabot, Pa. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Barack Obama winks as he is welcomed before speaking to the House Democratic Issues Conference in Cambridge, Md., Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. The president said top priorities for Congress should be increasing the minimum wage and reforming immigration. Obama told a House Democratic retreat Friday that the party needs to stand up for the American dream of getting ahead. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Lucas Olivo, 6, of Cheverly, Md., opens his mouth wide while running through a wall of water at Yards Park in Washington, on Thursday, June 21, 2012. Heat index values are expected to exceed 100 degrees across the northeast Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Yonge, 4, was abandoned by her parents at the Kabanga Protectorate Center, seen here in Kabanga, Tanzania on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. A local Reverend is hoping to adopt her but has not been able to take her home due to red tape. Having albinism, a genetic condition characterized by a lack of pigment in the body, can be a death sentence in Tanzania. Since 2006 more than 100 people with albinism have been physically attacked in the East African nation, 71 of whom died. Approximately 1 in every 1,400 people in Tanzania has albinism, compared to the world average of 1 in 20,000. Despite these high numbers misinformation about the condition abounds. Attacks by witch doctors, who use albino body parts in potions said to bring riches, have led the government to place children and adults with albinism into centers for their own safety. Although physically safe they are often stranded in the centers, many over-crowded boarding schools, with little long-term plan for their futures. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Clara Loiter, 3, and her mother Jennifer Frericks, of Washington, blow bubbles under a Yoshino cherry blossom tree at the National Arboretum in Washington, Monday, March 19, 2012, with unseasonably warm March temperatures continuing. The National Capitol Columns, from the East Portico of the Capitol are in the background. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A Secret Service Agent is seen through tinted and patterned glass as he stands in front of the door to a room where President Barack Obama was meeting with leading CEOs to discuss ways to promote the economy and create jobs during his last two years in office, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, at the Business Roundtable Headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Balloons that spelled out "HRC," Human Rights Campaign, and "love" float in the air as they are released outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday June 26, 2015, after the court declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the US. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

With the Jefferson Memorial in the background, Steven Paska, 26, right, of Arlington, Va., kneels as he asks Jessica Deegan, 27, his girlfriend of two years, to marry him, near cherry blossom trees in peak bloom along the tidal basin in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Deegan said yes to the surprise proposal. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Water rains down as a fire hose sprays the crowd during a spiritual mass baptism at the United House of Prayer for All People in Washington, on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. The 84th annual mass water baptism celebrates the end of the church's annual "holy convocation" week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Barack Obama greets people inside the Charcoal Pit in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, July 17, 2014, before speaking about transportation and infrastructure.

Secret Service agents dot the tarmac as President Barack Obama back right, salutes as he exits the Marine One helicopter to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, July 17, 2014, en route to Delaware where he is expected to visit the site of the damaged I-495 bridge in Wilmington to speak about transportation and infrastructure. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A girl reacts as President Barack Obama greets her and others in the crowd after speaking about payday lending, at Lawson State Community College in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, March 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

An eight-week-old female lion cub swims through fall leaves during a swim test at the National Zoo in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. The test was to make sure the four cubs will be safe around the water feature when they are put on public display, which is expected to take place in late December. The test was very successful according to the lion keepers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Josie keeps an eye on her family's yard during the "Grand Illumination Night," an annual tradition since 1868 in Oak Bluffs, Mass., when multitudes of paper lanterns are lit for one night decorating cottages in a historic neighborhood known as the "Camp Ground," Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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See these photos on AP Images

National Geographic:  Pictures: Inside the Lives of Albinos in Tanzania 

NPR: Portraits of Albinism: Letting An Inner Light Shine 

Women Photojournalists of Washington: WPOW