March 21, 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Soldiers tidying up the place inside a damaged shopping mall in Podilskyi district of Kyiv by the Russian air strikes, amid Russian invasion. Local media have reported that the attack has caused 4 deaths. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)

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March 18, 2022, Kyiv, Vynohradar District, Ukraine: A Ukrainian resident burst into tears outside the wreckage of a damaged 5-storey residence in Vynohradar, Kyiv, as missile strikes on the area at about 8 AM local time have been reported by local residents and media, amid Russian Invasion. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)

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Two images were published in the INYT, one on page 11 from Fredrik Persson/TT via ZUMA Press and the other, published on page 9, credited to Karin Tornblom/IBL via ZUMA Press were both published in the opinion section in an article tilted “The Case That Killed #MeToo in Sweden”.

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The people of Ukraine are enduring a ‘Living Hell,’ UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, as the shelling of multiple cities and towns continues. ‘The war is going nowhere, fast, he stated, describing it as unwinnable.’ Ten million people have now fled their homes in Ukraine because of the Russian invasion, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says. As well as the 3.5 million who have left for neighboring countries, another estimated 6.5 million people are thought to be displaced inside the war-torn country itself. Continuing the fighting, Mr. Guterres said, was ‘morally unacceptable, politically indefensible and militarily nonsensical… Sooner or later, it will have to move from the battlefield to the peace table. This is inevitable. The only question is: How many more lives must be lost?’ Welcome to ‘WAR IS HELL’

March 21, 2022, Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine: A man is seen inside a damaged shopping mall in Podilskyi district of Kyiv by the Russian air strikes, amid Russian invasion. Local media have reported that the attack has caused 4 deaths. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)

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March 21, 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A police officer stands guard at the wreckage of a damaged shopping mall in Podilskyi district of Kyiv by the Russian air strikes, amid Russian invasion. Local media have reported that the attack has caused 4 deaths. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)

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Zuma’s Managing Editor Jim Colton is interviewed by PopPhoto on his decades of Olympic coverage and what it takes to get the best images to the masses.

“I look at images that come in that are ingested to the ZUMA database, which is roughly, on an average day somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 images. During the Olympics, it’s easily twice, maybe three times that. I could look up just what we’ve ingested in the last 24 hours and it would be well over 100,000 images, because of the Olympics.” Jim Colton speaking to Jeff Carlson for PopPhoto Magazine.

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

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

Very Sad News
If you ever meet her, Alison touched you 🙂
a very BRIGHT LITE

ZUMA Press well known Photographer and 25+ year dear, good friend of mine: ALISON WRIGHT, is in a coma 😦

Doctors have declared no future for her.
Her brother is flying to Azores.

Avid scuba diver, Alison was scuba diving in Azores and a complication due to COVID, caused a heart attack while diving.
Causing her to go into a coma 😦

Regular at NGS (National Geographic Society) annual summit, as a prolific Nat Geo contributor.
Scores of books from her endless global travels and adventures.

Others might meet her at Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s annual: FotoFUSION, invited her a few times. Alison also had images in FotoVISION and brilliant zReportage.com stories:

Alison gave perhaps THE best ever lecture about her personal story, her near death experience in a bus accident in Asia over a decade ago, which became a best selling book: Learning to Breathe.

Alison, I know is a Force of NATURE!
Hoping her force is strong enough to overcome yet another major hurdle…
Lighting a candle tonite and please do what ever you do…

If you are in Azores flowers at hostipal.
My thoughts and all at ZUMA, are with her and hoping for another miracle for an amazing woman…

mahalo dear alison

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

March 15, 2022, HONG KONG, CHINA: A medical staff sanitizing hand of a citizen about to receive Covid-19 testing at the temporal Covid-19 Testing Station at Victoria Park. With Omicron Variant outbreak continue to plague the City, Hong Kongers are adjusting their life style by trying to co-exist with the virus in the epidemic stricken City. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)

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