Associated Press Monday June 8, 2026
A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of cameras and other equipment from a photojournalist who had been injured covering protests outside a Newark immigration jail. Darryl Brown, a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, was caught with the missing items after photojournalist Angelina Katsanis used a geo-tracking device to trace her missing gear to his home. Katsanis was on assignment for The Associated Press at Delaney Hall when she was struck in the knee by a wood beam during a clash between police and demonstrators. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday June 8, 2026
Over the past decade, scholars and curators have begun rewriting the history of photography by spotlighting women whose lives and work had been overlooked. Among those women is British-Austrian
photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, though her obscurity is somewhat ironic, since there are hundreds of MI-5 files on her in the UK. The daughter of Austrian socialists, Tudor-Hart trained in photography
at the the Bauhaus in … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday June 5, 2026
As part of its “Overlooked No More" series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths went unreported in the newspaper, The New York Times spotlights Nancy Sheung, noting that in 1960s Hong Kong she “used photography to portray women as bold, self-possessed and unconstrained by traditional expectations.” Born in 1915, in Suzhou, China, near Shanghai, Sheung later adopted the name Nancy. Well into her 40s, she purchased her first camera and used it to craft an image of female autonomy and audacity. She died on Jan. 17, 1979, while working in her darkroom in her Hong Kong home. Read the full Story >>
BBC Friday June 5, 2026
William Constable, who is believed to have taken the first-ever royal photographic portrait, is being honored with a blue plaque as part of a program connecting notable figures from the past with buildings that are still standing. Constable, who captured an image of Prince Albert, opened the first photographic portrait studio in the city of Brighton in 1841. The blue plaque was unveiled outside the building at 57 Marine Parade on May 29, notes the BBC. One expert said Constable played an "unparalleled role" in the city’s photographic history. Read the full Story >>
