CBS News Wednesday January 19, 2022
A news photographer Margarito Martínez was killed in the Mexican city of Tijuana on Monday, the same day press groups said a reporter had been killed in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz last week. The two killings marked a grim start to 2022 in Mexico, which is considered one of the most dangerous places for reporters outside active war zones, notes CBS News. Martínez was-known for covering the crime scenes in Tijuana. He worked for the local news outlet Cadena Noticias, as well as for other national and international media outlets. Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Wednesday January 19, 2022
Until 2014, Alexandra Sanguinetti hadn't been to Black River Falls, Wisconsin. But when she finally arrived there, in the frigid cold of a northern winter, it was, she notes, like "revisiting" a place
she knew well. The town was made famous in "Wisconsin Death Trip," author Michael Lesy's 1973 montage of news clippings and vintage photographs featuring locals who, as the book noted in … Read the full Story >>
The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday January 18, 2022
Steve Schapiro, the photojournalist and documentarian who covered the civil rights movement, produced stills for movies including The Godfather and Taxi Driver and shot portraits of David Bowie, Barbra Streisand, Andy Warhol and Ray Charles, died on Jan. 15 in Chicago. He was 87, notes The Hollywood Reporter. He had battled pancreatic cancer, reports the Monroe Gallery. As a photojournalist, Shapiro photographed the March on Washington in 1963, the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 and Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1968. One of his particularly poignant stories, produced in 1961, focused on the lives of migrant workers in Arkansas, adds the Monroe Gallery. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Tuesday January 18, 2022
Photographer Sage Sohier traveled around the country to photograph the human-animal bond, documenting rescues, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation centers for animals in need. The result, notes Feature Shoot, is her book Peaceable Kingdom. Sohier’s mother, the fashion model Wendy Morgan, helped nurture her love for animals in childhood; once, she rescued and raised a blue jay on their screen porch. Sohier grew up with dogs, and she dedicates the book to her “pack” at home: Willie, Bodie, Gracie, and Farley. Read the full Story >>
