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Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #815 TUESDAY November 23 , 2021: ‘Burlesque IS BACK’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Karen Focht.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #815: TUESDAY November 23, 2021: ‘Burlesque IS BACK’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer
Karen Focht: Harley riding Burlesque dancer Velvetina Taylor has spent many months mastering the art of the tease in Memphis, Tennessee. The New York native and entrepreneur holds a master’s degree, but after pursuing various kinds of work in her lifetime, she says she has found what truly makes her happy and Burlesque dancing is a combination of all the things she loves. Through performers like Velvetina this old Victorian art has become new again. American burlesque shows were originally an offshoot of Victorian burlesque. The English genre had been successfully staged in New York from the 1840s. Burlesque comes from the Italian and means ‘mockery.’ Historically, Burlesque entertainment couldn’t compete with the rising popularity of movies and nightclubs; eventually, it fizzled out. However, it saw an underground resurgence in major cities across the United States in the 1990s. Today, those interested in burlesque, with its colorful feathers, sequins and rhinestones can still follow its stars and performances, not only in Memphis but at venues and festivals around the US. Welcome to: ‘Burlesque IS BACK’

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

Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #814 TUESDAY November 16, 2021:’Border Refugees’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Raquel Natalicchio who has been covering the migrant situation along the US-Mexico border.

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Story of the Week #814: TUESDAY November 16, 2021: ‘Border Refugees’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Raquel Natalicchio who has been covering the migrant situation along the US-Mexico border: The US recorded more than 1.7 million interdictions of migrants along the southern border during the past 12 months, the highest figure of any fiscal year in history. Recently over 10,000 Haitians, would-be refugees fleeing an island nation that is rocked by political instability and economic depression, converged near Del Rio, Texas, and sought to stream into the US, creating a massive migrant camp under an overhead bridge in Coahuila, Mexico. With the US border recently re-opened many fleeing from violence and poverty at home, are again flooded with hope asylum will be granted. Currently in Tijuana around 1,0000 migrants live in the grubby and crowded El Chaparral camp, where dozens of families eek out an existence in flimsy tents. The government has cut off the electricity, stopped running water and removed bathrooms in the camp, leaving people with no way to bathe, wash their clothes or even cook food. With aid organizations not being allowed to drop off donations and supplies, many refugees believe they are being starved out of the camp. Welcome to: ‘Border Refugees’

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

Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #813 TUESDAY November 9, 2021: ‘IRAQ’S KILLING FIELDS’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Daniel Carde who has covered landmine removal from Cambodia to Iraq.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #813: TUESDAY November 9, 2021: ‘IRAQ’S KILLING FIELDS’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Daniel Carde who has covered landmine removal from Cambodia to Iraq: Ali is a local legend and hero in Iraqi Kurdistan, he’s rescued 182 people from deadly minefields, cleared 104 villages, demined 540 square kilometers of land, taught landmine awareness to at least 700 schools and rendered safe more than 2.5 million landmines and unexploded ordnances, many of those he cleared as a double amputee having lost his right leg to an Italian made landmine in January 1989. Iraq is the world’s most contaminated country with landmines, partly due to the mines laid by Islamic State to defend the territory it once controlled over Iraq and Syria, but also as a result of the 2003 invasion by the U.S.-led coalition, the 1991 Gulf War and the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. The global casualty toll of landmines doubled in 2018 from a 2013 low due to heavy conflicts in the region and to the increased use of improvised landmines set by militant groups such as Islamic State. Welcome to: ‘IRAQ’S KILLING FIELDS’

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

ZUMA’s Rodrigo Reyes-Marin featured on Bloomberg.com

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November 1, 2021, Tokyo, Japan: Japan’s Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Fumio Kishida attends a news conference at the party headquarters. Kishida answered questions from the press after his party won majority seats (in coalition with the Komeito party) at Japan’s lower house, as a result of the Oct. 31 general election.

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