Bring Me the News Monday June 16, 2025
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to raise money to assist with the search for Edson Vandeira, a mountaineer and photographer who went missing along with two Peruvians while climbing Peru's demanding Artesonraju mountain on June 1. "In the early hours of the rescue, the team's tent was found empty. There are signs that the group had reached the summit and that something serious had possibly happened during the descent," reads the GoFundMe launched by Natalia Mossmann Koch, Vandeira’s ex-wife. Vandeira’s work has appeared in a number of adventure magazines as well as National Geographic.
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David Schonauer Monday June 16, 2025
More than two dozen journalists have been injured or roughed up while covering protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, according to an Associated Press report last week. That has led press
freedom groups to question whether law enforcement has been deliberately targeting reporters covering the story. As PPD noted recently, a British photographer underwent emergency surgery after being
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The New York Times Friday June 13, 2025
“Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level.” So note filmmakers Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson, who have spent 15 years investigating the history of the camera. Their documentary chronicles how “people behind the camera went from capturing the image of a backyard to today’s multibillion-dollar content industry.” Read the full Story >>
New York Post Friday June 13, 2025
“I was an easy target,” says New York Post photographer Tony Canham, who was reporting on the protests in Los Angeles near the 101 freeway when a California Highway Patrol officer fired a non-lethal round at him. Canham, 59, who was wearing his press pass, was struck in the forehead and quickly fell to the ground, according to the Post. He posted a selfie on his Instagram Stories showing his head injury, notes People magazine. “Where I was hit, I was the only person overlooking the freeway,” Canham noted.
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