

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


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

August 25, 2024, Hong Kong, China: View of City of Shenzhen, signified by 592.5 meters high, 118 floors tall Ping An International Financial Center, currently tallest building in Shenzhen stand tall in the Special Economic Zone at the China – Hong Kong border as seen from the New Territory, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

August 11, 2025, East Jakarta, Indonesia: Several Jakarta Fire and Rescue officers participated in the 2025 Jakarta Fire Fighter Challenge category at the Education and Training Center in East Jakarta. The competition attracted 42 sectorsfrom across Jakarta. (Credit Image: © Muhammad Shahab/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press


October 28, 2025, Chicago, Il – Illinois, USA – United States: U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, Oct. 28, 2025, in Chicago after appearing before U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis. (Credit Image: © Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

November 3, 2025, Hong Kong, China: VIVIAN KONG, an Olympic gold medalist in women’s fencing – individual epee in the Paris Olympic Games 2024, displays high spirit in front of the press, declaring her decision to run for the Legislative Council Election 2025 in the tourism constituency coming this December. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

October 12, 2025, Hong Kong, China: In Hong Kong, a PRC national flag flies on the pole inside a Buddhist Temple compound. Under Hong Kong National Security Law, many Buddhist Temples and Taoist Monasteries are now displaying PRC national flags, outside or inside the Temples, as a sign of Buddhist and Taoist communities ‘gesture of faith’ to the Chinese Communist Party rule. CCP have firm grip on religious affairs in Hong Kong, allowing politics to intervene religious affairs according to their will. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

September 27, 2025, Hong Kong, China: German Cellist Raphaela Gromes responds by placing her hand on her heart to a cheering audience in the City Hall Concert Hall after the debut concert performing Antonin Dvorak Cello Concerto with Hong Kong Sinfonietta. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
AmaZing ZUMA Photographer Brian Branch-Price was tragically paralyzed in a car accident in late October. Please consider donating to his Go Fund me to help in his recovery:

You can see Brian’s powerful work on zumapress.com including his photo story on Black Cowboys which ran on zReportage and has since been turned into a book to be published in the spring of 2026.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/celebrating-30-years-of-black-legacy


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


November 4, 2025, Washington Dc, Virginia, USA: A sign on the entrance to the National Gallery of Art alerts visitors that it is closed due to the government shutdown in Washington on November 4, 2025. The federal government shutdown has entered its second month. Since partisan gridlock sent the US government into shutdown on October 1, many federal workers have gone without paychecks, and millions of Americans are increasingly caught in the crossfire of a lack of basic federal services. (Credit Image: © Gent Shkullaku/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press