Sur Friday May 24, 2024
Catalan travel photographer and tourist guide Toni Espadas was shot and killed on May 20 in Ethiopia while filming a documentary on the Mursi tribe, reports Spanish newspaper Sur. Two individuals opened fire on a team, including Espadas, who were working on the documentary series Partners of the World (Socios por el Mundo) for Chilean television station Canal 13, adds PetaPixel. Two individuals opened fire on the team, notes Sur, adding that the Mursi tribe were not the perpetrators of the attack.
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BBC Friday May 24, 2024
Over the past seven decades, photographer David Hurn has documented everything from the Aberfan disaster to the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania and celebs like Michael Caine. In the ’70s he set up the prestigious School of Documentary Photography in Newport, Wales. Now, notes the BBC, the man often described as the most important living Welsh photographer has new admirers, thanks to social media. "Twitter and God knows what… I don't even know what they all mean," he says. "But I suddenly discovered that there was this thing called Instagram.”
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Associated Press Friday May 24, 2024
The Israeli government will return a camera and broadcasting equipment it seized from The Associated Press on Tuesday, reports AP. The government seized AP equipment positioned in southern Israel after accusing it of violating a new media law by providing images to the satellite channel Al Jazeera. But it revered course hours later, after facing mounting criticism for interfering with independent journalism. The Biden administration and journalism organizations condemned the action.
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LAist Friday May 24, 2024
In the 1980s few artists documented gang and street life in Los Angeles. Photographer Merrick Morton was one of the first to cement that era in history with his pictures of the men and women who lived it, notes LAist, which spotlights Morton’s first solo show, “UN-REHEARSED,” at the Eastern Projects gallery in LA’s Chinatown neighborhood. “For me, the most interesting part is some of the subjects that I shot going back to the '80s have actually shown up [at the gallery] and they've come in,” says Morton.
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