The New York Times Thursday March 17, 2022
A Fox News cameraman and a Ukrainian journalist traveling with him were killed on Monday in Ukraine when their vehicle came under fire outside Kyiv, reports The New York Times. The cameraman, Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and the Ukrainian journalist, Oleksandra Kuvshynova, 24, were traveling in the same vehicle as the Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was also injured in the attack in the town of Horenka. The Dailey Beast reported that Hall later had to have part of his leg amputated. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday March 17, 2022
Micaiah Carter has photographed The Weekend for Time magazine. He's photographed the cast of HBO's "Euphoria" for New York magazine. He is "the kind of photographer who somehow makes Pharrell and
Taraji P. Henson feel like just some cool kids who stumbled into his backyard and happened to do a fashion shoot," noted BuzzFeed recently. But after the death of his father, Carter began … Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Wednesday March 16, 2022
Hiram Maristany, the official photographer for the Young Lords, a storied Puerto Rican activist group that was active in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at age 76, reports Art News. Maristany turned his lens on the Nuyoricans living in New York’s East Harlem neighborhood, often called El Barrio by its residents. “It’s no accident that a lot of the images are of 111th Street. That’s the street that I was born and raised on,” the artist said in a video interview with the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2018. Read the full Story >>
CNN Wednesday March 16, 2022
Asked to choose an icon of beauty, most people might think of a landscape, a city skyline or a work of art. Laird Kay, on the other hand, would say an airplane, notes CNN. The avgeek, who fell in love with planes as a child on vacation, has always seen aircraft as objects of beauty, as well as of convenience. And in his job as an airplane photographer, he allows the rest of us to see things through his eyes. In Kay's photos, airplanes become birds mid-flight, frozen in time on the runway and shot from above, adds CNN. Read the full Story >>