Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
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Perpignan September 6, 2019
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…
© scott mc kiernan/ZUMA Press
Perpignan September 6, 2019
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)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
March 17, 2022, HONG KONG, CHINA: Citizens crossing main avenue in the commercial centre at Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island. According to latest study, almost half of Hong Kong’s population have been infected with Covid-19 during 5th and worst wave of OUTBREAK in the City which numbers total of approximately 3.6 million people. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
December 2, 2021, New York, New York, USA: Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul updated New Yorkers on the state’s progress combating COVID-19 during a press conference at her office in New York City on 02 Dec 2021. (Credit Image: © Debra L. Rothenberg/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
March 14, 2022, Lviv, Ukraine: Ukrainian people shelter inside a bunker in central Lviv, following the air raid siren which started at around 8 pm local time, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
March 8, 2022, Warsaw, Poland: At minus 2 degree Celsius early in the morning, two Ukrainian kids sleep on the floor inside a railway station where arriving Ukrainians would wait to be transferred to other cities or countries for temporary settlement, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Millions of refugees have been fleeing Ukraine to neighbouring countries including Poland, Lithuania, Germany and The Netherlands, as Russian military attacks continue on civilians. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
This WAR AGAINST CIVILIZATION, started without provocation by Russia and their leader Putin, on February 23, 2022. Photographer Carol Guzy is on Ukrainian frontlines focusing on the three million and growing Ukrainian refugees, fleeing their homes with just the clothes on their backs, to neighboring countries in the largest European evacuation since WWII. Meanwhile Russian missiles and bombs, murder and injure civilians mercilessly, as Russia’s tank invasion rolls on and destroys the victims homeland. Killing innocent children, the elderly and everyday civilians. Ukrainian newspaper Novoe Vremya journalist YURIY MATSARSKIY, is embedded with the Kyiv military. From the frontline he observes: ‘there are long lines of those who want to join our defense… youngest fighter is 18 years old and the oldest is 65. Many women, but mostly men. The most important thing is that there is not a hint of weakness or sadness in the ranks of our fighters. It is true, everyone is unanimous in the belief in victory and therefore moving only forward.’ Matsarskiy, final words, were for anyone in Europe who is still doing business in Russia: ‘I would like to say… You feed the murderers, get out of their (Russian), trade with normal countries, do not finance their war.’ Welcome to: ‘UNITED WE STAND’
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Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
Russia has launched a devastating attack on Ukraine, a European democracy of 44 million people, bombarding its cities and closing in on the capital, Kyiv, prompting a mass exodus of refugees. Putin has shattered peace in Europe and thrown the continent’s entire security structure into jeopardy. The ”enemy” is here. Ukraine now finds itself in a face-off with the Russian bear, its claws sharp, its teeth borne wide. How much hope remains for Ukraine? How much panic is now knocking at our door? Psychological warfare is key to Putin’s toolbox. Propaganda, intimidation and demoralization: But this is nothing new. Ever since 2008, during the NATO Summit in Bucharest, he has led a campaign making territorial claims to Ukraine. Putin has made his move. Ukraine still has hope. But for how long, we cannot say. Welcome to: ‘COST of PEACE’
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
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