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Congrats to ZUMA Photographer Carol Guzy! The WHNPA executive board has just announced that longtime WHNPA member Carol Guzy, has been selected to receive the 2021 White House News Photographers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award!

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on July 23, 2021
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CAROL GUZY is an American documentary photojournalist. As a young girl, ZUMA Press photographer, Carol Guzy always wanted to be an artist. But as she was coming of age in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pa., such an ambition seemed impossible. ”Everyone I knew said, ‘Oh, if you’re an artist, you’ll starve,”’ she recalls. ”You have to do something really practical.”’ So Guzy chose to go to nursing school. Halfway through she realized she would not, could not, be a nurse. ”I was scared to death I was going to kill someone by making some stupid mistake,” she laughs. So while she was trying to figure out what to do with her life, a friend gave her a camera and she took a photography course. Guzy fascination with photography led to an internship and then a job at the Miami Herald. In 1988 she moved to The Washington Post. Carol photographs have won four Pulitzer Prizes and three Photographer of the Year awards in the National Press Photographers’ annual contest. ”I don’t believe the Pulitzers belong to us, I think we just accept them for the people who are in our stories,” said Guzy. ”They’re the courageous ones.” From her shots of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to Albanian refugees fleeing violence in Kosovo, Guzy captures moments of disaster and human suffering

Carol has a storied career in visual journalism, including 4 Pulitzer Prizes and 8 WHNPA Photographer of the Year awards- and she’s not done yet!

You may read more about Carol in the press release link here:

Click to access WHNPA2021_Lifetime_Guzy.pdf

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

ZUMA’s Rodrigo Reyes Marin featured on Bloomberg.com

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on July 16, 2021
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June 25, 2021, Tokyo, Japan: A signboard for the coronavirus vaccination campaign is seen at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building. People involved in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and residents with inoculation tickets received the Moderna coronavirus vaccines at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building to boost the inoculation campaign. 

Scott Mc Kiernan, Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press Wire Service

Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #794:TUESDAY July 13, 2021: ‘TOKYO2020: Let The Games Begin!’ by ZUMA Award winning Photographer Joe McNally.

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on July 15, 2021
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zReportage.com Story of the Week #794: TUESDAY July 13, 2021: ‘TOKYO2020: Let The Games Begin!’ by ZUMA Award winning Photographer Joe McNally whose career has taken him on assignment to 70 countries, here McNally gives us a unique preview of TOKYO 2020 and what will likely be one of the most controversial games ever: After a yearlong postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 olympic Games are set to kick off later this summer in Tokyo, despite the ongoing spread of COVID-19 and lingering concerns in Japan. Though the games will be taking place in 2021 due to the postponement, they will continue to be officially branded as the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Public opinion polls in japan charted strong opposition to the event, but at this point the games reportedly cost Japan about 5 billion, making them the most expensive ever. Japan has banned all foreign spectators from attending any of the events, and domestic spectators will be under strict limitations. Against the professional advice of many doctors and public-health officials, the 2020 Olympics will kick off on July 23, 2021. Welcome to ‘TOKYO2020: Let The Games Begin!’

Scott Mc Kiernan, Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press Wire Service

ZUMA featured in Finnish Publication “Iltalehti”.

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on July 15, 2021
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  1. July 11, 2021, London, London, United Kingdom:  Fans Arrive For UEFA 2020 Wembley Final. Photo Credit © Martyn Wheatley/i-Images via ZUMA Press.
  2. Football fans without the tickets managed to get through security checks at Wembley Stadium ahead of the UEFA Euro 2020 Final in London. Photo Credit © Maciek Musialek/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press
  3. Football fans without the tickets managed to get through security checks at Wembley Stadium ahead of the UEFA Euro 2020 Final in London. Photo Credit © Maciek Musialek/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press Wire Service

ZUMA’s Liau Chung-Ren featured on PostGuam.com

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on July 12, 2021
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June 23, 2021, Hong Kong, China: Emotional female colleagues burst into tears as they prepare to leave their post at Apple Daily Editorial Office for the last time at midnight. Apple Daily, a Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Chinese Newspaper founded by media tycoon Jimmy Lai (now in jail) announced it’s closure putting an end to 26 years of service as a Voice of the People.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press Wire Service

Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #793: TUESDAY July 6, 2021: ‘The INVISIBLE’ by Pulitzer winning Sacramento Bee Photographer Renée C. Byer.

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on July 6, 2021
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zReportage.com Story of the Week #793: TUESDAY July 6, 2021: ‘The INVISIBLE’ by Pulitzer winning Sacramento Bee Photographer Renee C. Byer:’I’m trying to keep it together’ Kristi Phillips and Anthony Slain, homeless with three children, move between a camper and hotels in Sacramento over several months in 2021. The number of homeless families in Sacramento continues to grow. California’s homeless problem has been out of control for decades. Then came COVID-19. The result has been a deadly combination of medical crisis, human hopelessness and bureaucratic red tape as the state, reeling from the effects of the virus, tries to rebound with a plan for the 160,000 homeless people. That number eclipses any other state, and accounts for half of the country’s entire unsheltered population. Sacramento Mayor Steinberg is ready to take a daring step to combat the homelessness crisis engulfing the region. He wants California’s capital city to be one of the first in the U.S. to establish a legal right to housing and shelter. See the plight of a homeless family in Sacramento. Welcome to ‘The INVISIBLE’

Scott Mc Kiernan, Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press Wire Service