The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.
via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/allende-zetas-cartel-massacre-and-the-us-dea
The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.
Zwelethu Mthethwa, the South African photographer convicted of murdering a sex worker in April 2013, was sentenced today to 18 years in jail. Judge Patricia Goliath said the “callousness, cruelty and brutality” of the crime warranted more than the 15-year
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/06/photographer-zwelethu-mthethwa-sentenced-18-years-murder.html
Jack Shainman Gallery, which has represented Mthethwa since 2006, has recently moved his name off their artists’ roster, but continue to sell some of his prints.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
via Kleiner Perkins: http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends
A Portuguese photographer, Daniel Rodrigues — who only five years ago was unemployed and had to sell his gear to buy food and pay the rent — has been named Ibero-American Photographer of the Year in the fourth POY Latam contest. Santi Palacios of Spain was awarded second place and Andres Kudacki of Argentina took third.
”This is a war and we intend to win.”
via Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/anti-racist-antifa-tinley-park-five
In less than two minutes, the anti-racists had unleashed a flurry of destruction. A mosaic of smashed glass covered the floor. Blood polka-dotted the ceiling. Three people required medical care.
A court in South Africa has convicted photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa of the 2013 murder of Nokuphila Kumalo, 23, a sex worker, in a suburb of Cape Town, several South African newspapers have reported. Bail for Mthethwa, a graduate of the Rochester Institu
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/03/photographer-zwelethu-mthethwa-found-guilty-murder.html
Bail for Mthethwa, a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology who is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, was revoked while he awaits sentencing.
The social media addiction of customers is feeding astonishing profits.
What you do when waiting for the bus or avoiding work goes a long way to explaining a tectonic shift in business and media.
The history of Obama’s most important foreign-policy victory is still being written.
The history of Obama’s most important foreign-policy victory is still being written
Photography safety is a growing concern leading up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This past weekend, a group of photographers were
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/19/photography-team-at-olympics-cycling-event-robbed-in-rio-de-janeiro/
Four women, among them human rights activist Nadia Vera, were also murdered along with the 31-year-old photojournalist Espinosa in what Francisco Goldman in The New Yorker called “The Colonia Narvarte massacre” after the name of the middle-class neighborhood were they were killed, execution-style.
Google also started pointing users searching for photographs (of a celebrity, for example) to large high-definition images presented in an easy-to-scroll-through carousel. Photo agencies such as Getty Images, which had its own photo search engine, saw their traffic plummet. Even worse, some Getty clients stopped paying to license pictures because they could easily copy them off Google. “Google became the No. 1 source for the piracy of images,” says John Lapham, general counsel at Seattle-based Getty, which became an official complainant to the EU antitrust case in June.
Camera gear may be expensive and painful to have stolen, but your photos are priceless and devastating to lose. A photographer’s worst nightmare just
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/07/15/photojournalist-loses-lifes-work-after-burglars-steal-hard-drives/
They contained an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 photos captured over the course of his 35 year photography career.
Photographer Steve McCurry’s assistant Bree DeStephano, 32, has been arrested and charged for theft and related offenses, according to Chester (PA) County district attorney Tom Hogan. DeStephano is charged with stealing prints, books, and other items from
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/steve-mccurrys-assistant-charged-654258-print-book-theft
stolen prints included some of McCurry’s most famous images: Afghan Girl, Vertical Dust Storm, The Blue City, and Bengali Woman and Child. In addition to the prints, Hogan says, she sold stolen books as well through various aliases on multiple Web sites
Would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad…
via London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said
This gesture will help tens of thousands of poor and needy men, women, and children across the continent who have never had the opportunity to walk around looking like a pompous jackass all day long
The jihadist organization supposedly published a pamphlet with 27 guidelines for how to treat your female slave.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/12/the-islamic-state-issues-guide-on-when-its-okay-to-beat-your-sex-slave/
The pamphlet says it is permissible to capture any “unbelieving” women and have sex with her “immediately” if she is a virgin. If she is not, though, it mandates that “her uterus must be purified” first. It offers no further detail on what that means.
The trial of photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, who has been charged with the 2013 murder of an alleged sex worker in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, has been postponed six months because no judge is available, the Daily Maverick newspaper reports. Mthe
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/11/photographer-zwelethu-mthethwas-murder-trial-delayed.html
Every digital image must be touched by software before you see it. But when each pixel is affected, who decides what is true?
Senior White House officials meeting on purported beheading of American journalist James Foley.
President Obama said Wednesday that the United States “will be vigilant and we will be relentless” against Islamic State militants and would “do what’s necessary to see that justice is done” following the videotaped execution of an American journalist.
American journalist’s apparent killer is recognized by Londoners as one of their own.
Security officials in London have been sounding the alarm for more than a year over the large number of foreigners in Syria, with the chief of Scotland Yard telling reporters last week that about 500 Britons are among the thousands of Westerners who have joined the fight.
In Srebrenica, the remains of those killed in the genocide keep turning up, unsettling the reconciliation between Muslims and Serbs.
Srebrenica has come to symbolize the Bosnian war’s unspeakable brutality and the international community’s colossal failure when confronting it.
Photographs by PAOLO PELLEGRIN
George J. Rosa III, the former owner of the Hallmark Institute of Photography, the photography school in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, pled guilty March 11 to charges of bank fraud and tax evasion, according to a report by Springfield, Massachusetts, TV s
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George J. Rosa III, the former owner of the Hallmark Institute of Photography, the photography school in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, pled guilty March 11 to charges of bank fraud and tax evasion
Our supposed ally had a special desk devoted to managing Osama bin Laden. How can the U.S. fight extremism when we’re unable to confront it where it really lives?
On our fifth and last day in Quetta, four plainclothes agents detained my photographer colleague at his hotel. They seized his computer and photo equipment and brought him to the parking lot of the hotel where I was staying. There they made him call and ask me to come down to talk to them. “I’m in trouble here,” he told me.