PetaPixel Tuesday December 16, 2025
Last week, photojournalist David Burnett published a story in The Washington Post arguing against the conclusions drawn by The Stringer—the documentary claiming that AP photographer Nick Ut did not take the famous ‘Napalm Girl’ photo during the Vietnam War. (The essay, titled “I Was There When ‘Napalm Girl’ was Photographed,” is an edited version of a longer story Burnett posted at Facebook.) Burnett also says the documentary used his photos without permission or attribution, notes PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday December 16, 2025
You could walk by the unassuming restaurant with the red lacquered door on a quiet street in Paris near the Comedie-Francaise and not realize it was, as one magazine put it recently, "the pinnacle of
glamorous Parisian nightlife for three decades." There, A-listers from the worlds of fashion and photography and music and film -- including Helmut and June Newton, Grace Coddington, Yves
Saint-Laurent, … Read the full Story >>
Poynter. Monday December 15, 2025
Social media videos of a Catholic priest turning away Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from his church are garnering support and thousands of shares, but they were generated with artificial intelligence tools. An Instagram video with 22,500 views as of Dec. 5 shows a priest blocking ICE agents from entering his parish and giving a speech on the steps of the church, with a crowd of parishioners behind him. “We didn’t find credible news articles pertaining to the incident,” notes Poynter. Read the full Story >>
Haaretz Monday December 15, 2025
In October 1941, 1,304 Jews from Hamburg. Germany, were deported to the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz, Poland. Now, reports Haaretz, three photographs have been verified as documenting the deportation, sparking an international effort to identify the people in them. For 84 years, the photos remained hidden in the private album of a German policeman who served in Unit 101 of the Ordnungspolizei, or “green police,” a unit involved in deporting and murdering tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, notes PetaPixel.
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