The Washington Post Thursday December 2, 2021
During a time when sinews of government and social cohesion have been tested to a breaking point (remember Jan. 6, 2021), America and Americans have endured, notes The Washington Posts Magazine in a recent issue that looks back through the eyes of a number of photographers, including Endia Beal, who documented the life of Onyekachukwu Onochie, a 28-year-old African American woman born with sickle cell anemia. She describes herself as a sickle cell warrior who lives each day like it’s her last, notes Beal. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Thursday December 2, 2021
More crime news from California: A Bay Area news crew was filming a story about a robbery in Oakland when a man attacked the crew and attempted to steal their camera equipment. The team’s security guard intervened but was shot multiple times and later died of his injuries.The guard, Kevin Nishita, was a retired police officer, was retained by KRON4 as a security guard, notes PetaPixel. As we noted recently, violent crimes and robberies against photographers and news crews have been increasingly common in the Bay Area. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday December 2, 2021
The 2022 World Press Photo Contest is now open for submissions. The deadline for entering work is January 11, 2022, and the contest is free and open to all professional photographers working in the
field of photojournalism and/or documentary photography. You can submit work in four format-based categories-Singles, Stories, Long-Term Projects and Open Format. This year's competition is being
organized around six global regions … Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Wednesday December 1, 2021
Latif Al Ani, whose pioneering photographic work in Iraq sank into obscurity until recent years, died on November 18 at the age of 89, reports The Art Newspaper. Often known as the “father of Iraqi photography,” he became known for chronicling how the fast-modernizing nation came to see itself in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s: cosmopolitan, civilized, and above all modern, while still honoring its Sumerian and Mesomopotamian origins. He stopped taking photographs following the rise of Saddam Hussein, finding that he was unable to maintain his former optimistic outlook for Iraq's future. Read the full Story >>
