January 8, 2025, Los Angeles, California, USA: The wildfire in Pacific Palisades, which began on Tuesday, January 7th, quickly spread due to the Santa Ana winds in the Los Angeles area. Hundreds of homes and vehicles have been destroyed, and thousands of people have been evacuated. Firefighters have been battling the blaze, but it remains uncontrollable due to the strong winds. The Palisades Fire has burned over 17,000 acres and is at zero percent containment, according to authorities.
Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #970 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY, December 31, 2024: ‘Search For The Disappeared’ Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy in Damascus: Images of tortured victims bodies cover the the outside walls of Al-Mujtahid Hospital in central Damascus. Every day, since the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a crowd of family members mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers come together to examine this wall of horror. They look closely at the disfigured corpses with smashed faces some with no eyes, in the hope of recognizing a lost loved one who disappeared into Syria’s notorious prison system during the 13 year civil war. On December 8, a rebel offensive led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates more than 100,000 people died in Syrian prisons during a brutal regime. Welcome to: ‘Search For The Disappeared’ .
Rebels end the Assad regime in Syria, election of a pro-Russia president causes unrest in Georgia, the end of an unsettling year: The DECEMBER 2024 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMApress is now published. PLEASE SHARE! #photojournalismwww.thepicturesofthemonth.com
Sit back and enjoy “The Pictures of the Month” (POM) presented by Scott Mc Kiernan and ZUMA Press. ZUMA received over one million images shot by professional photographers, all shot in the month of December.
Photographers represented by ZUMA Press covered the four corners of the world to bring pictures that need to be seen! POM shows the best work of these photojournalists, documenting the most important events of the past month.
ZUMA Press Wire’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Mark Avery, Jessica Cotsonas, Robin Loznak, Scott Mc Kiernan, Julie Rogers, Ruaridh Stewart, Shalan Stewart, whom with the fine ZUMA support staff: Florence Combes, John Collett, Katrina Kochneva, Pat Johnson, Julie Mason, Jeremy Mc Kiernan and Stan Sholik contributed to make this Lucie & Webby winning monthly movie possible. Hope you enjoy and then if so, pass the word to others
Abed Rahim Khatib • Ahmed Deeb • Alex Zucco • Alexander Patrin • Algi Febri Sugita • Anas Alkharboutli • Andrea Masini • Andrew Leyden • Andrew Yates • Armin Weigel • Artem Geodakyan • Arthur Grace • Ayal Margolin • Azamat Sarsenbayev • Bce • Beata Zawrzel • Bernd Von Jutrczenka • Billy Bennight • Blondet Eliot • Bob Karp • Bonnie Cash – Pool via CNP • Brent Gudenschwager • Brian Lawless • Brian McLean • Camden Hall • Carol Guzy • Christian Lademann • Christoph Reichwein • Cris Faga • Cristobal Basaure Araya • Daniel Carde • Dave Starbuck • David Smith • Debajyoti Chakraborty • Dmitry Yagodkin • Dmytro Smolienko • Douwe Bijlsma • Eliot Blondet • Emily Curiel • Fredrik Karlsson • Gripas Yuri • Heiko Rebsch • Hendrik Schmidt • Hou Zhaokang • Ian West • Israel Anta • James Gasperotti • James Leyva • James Manning • James Patrick Cooper • Jan Schmidt-Whitley • Jasper Jacobs • Jennifer Graylock-Graylock.com • Jill Connelly • Jim West • Jon Putman • Jonas Gehring • Jose Velasco • José Oliva • Julie Edwards • Julien Mattia • Juma Mohammad • Kay Nietfeld • Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert • Laura Brett • Laurel Smith • Lemor David • Leon Neal • Liam Mcburney • Lucy North • Luo Yuan • Malcolm Park • MD Mehedi Hasan • Majdi Fathi • Marco Di Gianvito • Mark Fann • Martin Pope • Mark Pritchard • Matic Klansek • Matt Crossick • Maxime Jegat • Mikhail Metzel • Mimmo Carriero • Mohammed Nasser • Mohammed Skaik • Nancy Kaszerman • Omar Ashtawy • Patrick Pleul • Patrick Steiner • Pedro Porru • Prabhat Kumar Verma • Radek Petrasek • Raniero Corbelletti • Rizek Abdeljawad • Roberto Monaldo • Robin Loznak • Robin Rayne • Ron Sachs-Pool • Rubel Karmaker • Sally Hayden • Saquan Stimpson • Scott Mc Kiernan • Scott Rausenberger • Senior Airman Nicholas Rupiper • Sergey Malgavko • Shady Alassar • Skanda Gautam • Stephen Lock • Steve Prakope • Stevens Tomas • Sue Dorfman • Svet Jacqueline • William Volcov • Yevhen Vasyliev • Zhang Chenlin • Zhang Nan • Zhang Tao
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