Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #975 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY February 4, 2025: ‘Inside CECOT’ by ZUMA Press award winning dpa photo-journalist Juan Carlos: El Salvador, until recently one of the most dangerous countries in the world, but now has record low homicides thanks to newfound security measures by President Nayib Bukele. The small Central American country has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those with US citizenship, and house them in its mega-jail. Able to hold 40,000 inmates, the CECOT is made up of eight sprawling pavilions. Its cells hold 65 to 70 prisoners each. They do not receive visits. There are no programs preparing them to return to society after their sentences, no workshops or educational programs. Amnesty International has criticized the ‘gradual replacement of gang violence with state violence’ in the country. Welcome to ‘Inside CECOT’
Wind-fueled wildfires destroy over 10,000 homes in southern California; USA says good bye to Jimmy Carter as a second Donald Trump administration begins: The JANUARY 2025 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMApress is now published. PLEASE SHARE! #photojournalism www.thepicturesofthemonth.com
Sit back and enjoy “The Pictures of the Month” (POM) presented by Scott Mc Kiernan and ZUMA Press. ZUMA received over one million images shot by professional photographers, all shot in the month of January.
Photographers represented by ZUMA Press covered the four corners of the world to bring pictures that need to be seen! POM shows the best work of these photojournalists, documenting the most important events of the past month.
ZUMA Press Wire’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Mark Avery, Jessica Cotsonas, Robin Loznak, Scott Mc Kiernan, Julie Rogers, Ruaridh Stewart, Shalan Stewart, whom with the fine ZUMA support staff: Florence Combes, John Collett, Katrina Kochneva, Pat Johnson, Julie Mason, Jeremy Mc Kiernan and Stan Sholik contributed to make this Lucie & Webby winning monthly movie possible. Hope you enjoy and then if so, pass the word to others 🙂
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Abed Rahim Khatib • Abu Sufian Jewel • Aleev Egor • Alberto Gardin • Alberto Terenghi • Alexandre Marchi • Ali Hamad Apaimages • Amit Machamasi • Amy Katz • Andrew Harnik • Andrew Leyden • Andrew Silk • Anna Moneymaker • Aristidis Vafeiadakis • Artem Priakhin • Atlas Archive • Brian Cahn • Brian Lawless • Brian McLean • Bruce Cotler • C Flanigan • Carol Guzy • Cat Morley • Charles Baus • Cheng Yiheng • Chris Putnam • Clara Margais • CraSH • Daniel A. Anderson • Daniel Ecoff • Danny Lawson • Dave Decker • David Davies • Dimas Rachmatsyah • Dmytro Smolienko • Doaa El-Baz • Eric Canha • Ettore Ferrari • Eugene Messman • Evandro Inetti • Federico Gambarini • Florent Gooden • Frank Molter • Gaby Schuetze • Gene Blevins • Gent Shkullaku • Hadi Daoud • Haiyun Jiang • Harald Steiner • Hasan Akbas • Hashem Zimmo • Hu Jingchen • James Patrick Cooper • Jefferee Woo • Jens Kalaene • Jesus Vargas • Jon Putman • Jonathan Alcorn • Jonathan Brady • José Oliva • Julius Mortsi • Justin Ng • Karen Ballard • Kay Nietfeld • Kenny Holston • Kyle Mazza • Laura Brett • Lev Radin • Liu Yousheng • Luca Ponti • Lucia Sabatelli • Lui Siu Wai • Luis Santana • Luis Soto • Mark Edward Harris • Markus Hibbeler • Martin Pope • Massimo Paolone • Maxim Thore • Mohd Daud • Mykle Parker • Nancy Kaszerman • Nick Ut • Omar Ashtawy • Oscar Manuel Sanchez • Owen Humphreys • Patrice Noel • Patrick Pleul • Pavel Nemecek • Olivier Pojzman • Prabhat Kumar Verma • Radek Petrasek • Raniero Corbelletti • Redbull Media • Richard Pohle • Ringo Chiu • Robert Michael • Roberto Monaldo • Robin Loznak • Robin Rayne • Rodrigo Reyes Marin • Saher Alghorra • Scott Coleman • Scott Mc Kiernan • Scott Stuart • Sean Kilpatrick • Sebastian Willnow • Serge Arnal • Seshadri Sukumar • Shi Yu • Skanda Gautam • Slavek Ruta • Soeren Stache • Sonia Moskowitz Gordon • Stefano Dalle Luche • Stephanie Keith • Stephen Lock • Sunil Sharma • Sylvie Lefort • Thomas Warnack • Tom Williams • Wolfgang Grebien • Yevhen Titov • Yuri Smityuk
Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #974 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY, December 31, 2024: ‘THE DISAPPEARED: Syria’s Sad Search’ Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy: Desperate family members search for their disappeared loved ones at the Moujtahed hospital morgue among bodies of prisoners recovered from the notorious Sednaya prison and other military intelligence branch jails that showed signs of torture and malnutrition during a brutal regime in Damascus Syria in December 2024. A whirlwind rebel offensive led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates more than 100,000 people died in Syrian prisons and now most families will be denied the closure of a proper burial. They go from prison to prison, and hospital morgues, wishing for even just bones to bury. ‘Even we accept the skeletons,’ say the mothers. Welcome to: ‘THE DISAPPEARED: Syria’s Sad Search’
