Royal Horticultural Society Monday May 23, 2022
Spring is here, along with spring flowers, and what better time to view the winners of the 2022 Royal Horticultural Society Photographic competition? The contest celebrates the beauty of gardens and wildlife. The winner of the Plants category and overall adult contest was Sanjay Jani for his sunset image of crocuses blooming alongside a concrete office wall in Iowa City, Iowa. Andrea Jones wins the Gardens category with a magnificent early-morning image of Madresfield Court, Worcestershire. Read the full Story >>
National Press Photographers Association Monday May 23, 2022
A survey by the Authors Guild, Freelancers Union, Graphic Artist Guild, American Society of Media Photographers, National Press Photographers Association, American Photographic Artists, and National Writers Union found that 62 percent of freelance workers based in New York had lost wages at least once in their career over an employer’s refusal to pay them, notes the National Press Photographers Association. It also found that 51 percent of those who had lost income to nonpayment reported losing more than $1,000, and 22 percent reported losing more than $5,000. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday May 23, 2022
On a Monday in early January, in the Floresta area of Veracruz, the port city on Mexico's east coast, the body of Jose Luis Gamboa, the founder and editor of news websites Inforegio and La Noticia,
was found in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico. He'd been stabbed at least seven times. A week later, in the border town of Tijuana, the prominent photojournalist … Read the full Story >>
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Robin Pickering-Iazzi Sunday May 22, 2022
"When Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia passed away on April 13, 2022, the biggest shock among those of us who have written about her was that she didn't die at the hands of the Mafia." So writes
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, a professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in a recent essay about the acclaimed photographer, who spent nearly five
decades … Read the full Story >>
