ZUMA’s Carol Guzy has been honored by the 8th annual Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Awards. The award “recognizes women photojournalists who exhibit extraordinary courage and humanity in reporting from areas of instability, oppression, and conflict.”
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
Ukraine dominated the headlines in April with unimaginable devastation and the discovery of mass graves. Emmanuel Macron won an unprecedented second term in France and the faithful around the world celebrated Easter and Ramadan. The April 2022 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMApress is now published. PLEASE SHARE! #photojournalism http://www.thepicturesofthemonth.com
ZUMA’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Jeremy Mc Kiernan, Jessica Cotsonas, Julie Mason, Julie Rogers, Katrina Kochneva, Mark Avery, Pat Johnson, Ruaridh Stewart, Scott Mc Kiernan, Shalan Stewart, and the POM Editor-in-Chief Jim Colton made this ZUMA show possible. Enjoy and pass the word to others.
Photographers:
Aaron Chown • Adryel Talamantes • Aleksander Kalka • Amy Katz • Andrea Ronchini • Bianca Otero • Bob Karp • Boris Roessler • Carol Guzy • Carsten Koall • Christoph Soeder • Claudio Furlan • Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi • Davide Pischettola • Debajyoti Chakraborty • Debarchan Chatterjee • Dominic Lipinski • Fer Capdepon Arroyo • Ian West • Jane Barlow • Jesus Vargas • Jonas Walzberg • Joy Saha • Kay Nietfeld • Majdi Fathi • Manuel Bruque • Martin Ludovic • Martin Wheatley • Matthew Hatcher • Maximillian Clarke • Maxym Marusenko • Miguel Gutierrez • Niall Carson • Nick Potts • Nidal Eshtayeh • Nikolas Kokovlis • Pascal Bonniere • Paul Grover • Peter Kovalev • Ramil Sitdikov • Rhona Wise • Roberto E. Rosales • Robin Loznak • Sebastian Gollnow • Sergei Fadeichev • Seth Sidney Berry • Shawn Thew • Stanislav Krasilnikov • Syed Mahabubul Kader • Teera Noisakran • Tiziano Ballabio • Tom Weller • Zac Goodwin
As Tampa Bay’s housing prices continue to skyrocket, ordinary people are feeling the g-forces of a rapidly changing region. A shortage of houses for sale has resulted in a unprecedented competition for those in the market to buy a property. This market trend has taken the dream of homeownership well beyond the means of middle class Americans, who are increasingly up against higher income buyers for what seems like an ever decreasing smaller pool of homes. For some, the climbing demand and soaring costs are a sign of prosperity, while for others, the change is proving devastating. As the housing supply is dwarfed by demand, longtime residents are left with nowhere to go. Suddenly, people who once lived modest but comfortable lives are bracing for homelessness. Voices from the front lines of Tampa Bay’s housing boom, including would be home owners, tenants, landlords and those just trying to help describe this moment in their own words. Welcome to ‘Unaffordable’ AMERICAN DREAM
“The problem as a photographer is trying to document this tastefully,” she said. “There’s a lot of pictures I don’t even transmit because they are too gruesome.” Still, Guzy said, you “can’t sugarcoat reality.”
At least 403 civilian bodies, many of whom were brutally tortured and killed, were discovered in mass graves in Bucha, a once affluent suburb of Kyiv. The grim work now begins in Bucha gathering evidence of possible war crimes by Russian troops. The media tour was intended to show journalists the horrors that Ukrainian forces have uncovered in recent days before investigators remove the bodies and start the careful work of gathering evidence. The forensic process will be necessary to counter the Kremlin’s insistence its forces are not to blame for the deaths of civilians, as Moscow has claimed the atrocities were staged or carried out by Ukrainian forces. Images of the atrocities committed in towns of Irpin and Bucha near Kyiv have drawn condemnation around the world. Ukrainian authorities hope it could influence the western response to the invasion of Ukraine put in motion by Russian president Putin on February 24. Welcome to ‘War Crimes Watch: BUCHA’S HORROR’
‘We published a lot of images as… well… “pictures that need to be seen”, – Kelli Grant, photography Director Yahoo news.
‘Thank you yahoo for giving this important work a world platform as only Yahoo can. Carol Guzy has taken it up a level to cover this unprecedented in our lifetime war crimes on civil action by Putin and Russia.’ – Scott Mc Kiernan, CEO, Founder ZUMA Press, chief staff photo-journalist.
It will be live at 5am ET, Friday 4/22. (Noon in Kyiv)