The Minnesota Star Tribune Thursday June 26, 2025
Veteran high-altitude mountaineer and accomplished photographer Edson Vandeira and two other climbers — Efraín Pretel Alonzo and Jesús Manuel Picón Huerta — have been found dead on Peru’s 20,000-foot Artesonraju mountain, reports The Minnesota Star Tribune. The three had been missing since May 29, and an extensive rescue effort in the treacherous terrain was called off after 10 days. As PPD noted recently, Vandeira’s work has appeared in a number of adventure magazines as well as National Geographic.
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David Schonauer Thursday June 26, 2025
User-generated content -- videos, podcasts and posts put together by individual creators -- will eclipse the ad revenue attracted by professional media produced by TV networks, cinemas and news
companies, according to an assessment by British communications company WPP Media. The news comes amid a huge global change in viewing habits and media consumption. Content creators are expected to
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Projections Wednesday June 25, 2025
At a Projections even on June 26, photographer Madeleine Kelly will discuss her work with the NGO International Mutual Aid, which has been establishing medical care in the Kono Region of Sierra Leone. “Working with them I was able to explore and document both the cultural aspects of the tribe as well as the challenges faced by the community from water access, medical care, poverty and food scarcity,” Kelly notes. When: 7:00 pm ET. Where: via Zoom.
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The Washington Post Wednesday June 25, 2025
Marcia Resnick, who photographed downtown Manhattan’s underground arts and culture scene of the 1970s and early ’80s and shot the last studio images of actor John Belushi before his fatal drug overdose in 1982, died June 18 in Manhattan at age 74, reports The Washington Post. The cause was lung cancer. “Punks had earned a reputation for evil and expressed it in their outfits and in their music,” Resnick once told an interviewer. “But back then, within certain circles, evil was used colloquially as good.”
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