Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #797: August 17, 2021: ‘Afghanistan Redux’ by ZUMA award winning Photographer Adam Rountree who was in Kandahar when the Taliban arrived.

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Story of the Week #797: TUESDAY August 17, 2021: ‘Afghanistan Redux’ by ZUMA award winning Photographer Adam Rountree who was in Kandahar when the Taliban arrived: On 10 August, the US intelligence warned that the Afghanistan government will collapse in 30 to 90 days and the Taliban could take control. Five days later, Kabul fell, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled, and Washington witnessed another 1975 Saigon air evacuation like situation. The nation which had only just begun to start showing signs of recovery from the devastation of a 20 year war returned to the dark times it had left behind. Thousands of Afghans have fled their homes amid fears the Taliban will again impose a brutal, repressive government, all but eliminating women’s rights and conducting public amputations, stoning’s and executions. The US has spent 3 billion training, equipping, and paying Afghanistan’s security forces since 2001, yet despite all that assistance, Afghanistan’s military and police have proved incapable of securing the country. According to the IRC currently 18 million people in the country require humanitarian aid. Welcome to ‘Afghanistan Redux’

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

ZUMA’s Liau Chung Ren featured in Helsingin Sanomat.

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Thousand of citizens took part in the annual New Year’s Day Parade, calling for freedom and democracy for Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s leading protest group for civil disobedience, CIVIL HUMAN RIGHTS FRONT have announced disbanding of it’s Organization today under increasing pressure of NATIONAL SECURITY LAW. File Photo: Aug-15, 2021 Hong Kong.

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Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #796: August 3, 2021: ‘TOKYO 2020: Going For Gold!’ from ZUMA Award winning Photographers in Tokyo: Daniel Anderson, Paul Kitagaki Jr, Paul Kuroda, Scott Mc Kiernan, David McIntyre and Joe McNally.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #796: TUESDAY August 3, 2021: ‘TOKYO 2020: Going For Gold!’ from ZUMA Award winning Photographers in Tokyo: Daniel Anderson, Paul Kitagaki Jr, Paul Kuroda, Scott Mc Kiernan, David McIntyre and Joe McNally: After a one-year delay, the Tokyo Olympics officially began under tight Covid-19 restrictions. The first week of the Tokyo Olympics is complete and we’ve already seen some memorable moments. Simone Biles has performed and pulled out in dramatic fashion, then came back to medal on the balance beam. In the year leading up to the delayed Summer Olympics, public opinion polls in Japan showed people overwhelmingly against holding the Games in the country. Some feared it would spread the coronavirus. Others complained about the high costs. But now that Olympics are underway and Team Japan is doing well, people in Japan seem excited. And we’re just getting started. There’s plenty more sport to come at the Tokyo Olympics. Welcome to ‘TOKYO 2020: Going For Gold!’

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Sit back and enjoy POM! “The Pictures of the Month” presented by Scott Mc Kiernan and ZUMA Press. ZUMA received a huge volume of over one million professional photographer’s images, all shot in the month of July. The ZUMA photographers 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.

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics begin a year late, floods devastate Europe and China, COVID-19 variants surge worldwide and billionaires race each other for a ride in space. These stories and more as the July 2021 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMAPress is now published. PLEASE SHARE! #photojournalism www.thepicturesofthemonth.com

ZUMA’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Jessica Cotsonas, Julie Rogers, Mark Avery, 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:

Abu Sufian Jewel • Adam Davy • Aditya Sutanta • Ajar Setiadi • Andrew Milligan • Arielle Bader • Artur Widak • Aryan Dhimal • Ashraf Amra • Bern Birchall • Bruno Fahy • Chip Somodevilla • Claudio Furlan • Daniel A. Anderson • Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi • Daniel Stiller • Dave Bedrosian • David Parry • Frederic Lecocq • Gregor Fischer • Guo Chen • Hussein Ali • Ivan Damanik • Jasper Jacobs • Joe McNally • Joel Marklund • Jon Olav Nesvold • Kim Price • Kohei Maruyama • Li An • Li Jianan • Liu Dawei • Majdi Fathi • Marcus Brandt • Marijan Murat • Marius Becker • Mehedi Hasan • Mike Egerton • Muhammad Manan • Mustasinur Rahman Alvi • Naoki Morita • Niviere David • Oliver Weiken • Paul Kitagaki Jr. • Paul Kuroda • Petter Arvidson • Richard Bowler • Richard Sellers • Ringo Chiu • Robin Loznak • Romy Arroyo Fernandez • Simon Bruty • Simon Needham • Skanda Gautam • Slavek Ruta • Stanislav Krasilnikov • Stefan Rousseau • Sven Pfortner • Thomas Frey • Ty O’Neil • Valery Sharifulin • Vegard Wivestad Grott • Wang Yuguo • Xia Yifang • Xu Chang • Yang Lei • Zikri Maulana

Newspapers, Picture Agencies + Wire Services:

AFLO • APA Images • Abaca • Belga • Bildbryan • Blue Origin • CNP • CSM • Cover Images • dpa • Future-Image • Kyodonews • LaPresse • Maxppp • mediadrumworld.com • NurPhoto • PA Wire • Pacific Press • SOPA Images • TASS • Tampa Bay Times • Virgin Galactic • Xinhua • ZUMA Press Wire

Music: ‘We Are Runners’ by Roger Subirana Mata