Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #795: TUESDAY July 27, 2021: ‘TOKYO 2020: Let The Games Begin!’ from ZUMA Award winning Photographers in Tokyo: Daniel Anderson, Paul Kitagaki Jr, Paul Kuroda, David McIntyre and Joe McNally.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #795: TUESDAY July 27, 2021: ‘TOKYO 2020: Let The Games Begin!’ from ZUMA Award winning Photographers in Tokyo: Daniel Anderson, Paul Kitagaki Jr, Paul Kuroda, David McIntyre and Joe McNally: After a one-year delay, the Tokyo Olympics officially began Friday. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, fewer than 1,000 people were permitted to attend the ceremony, which included the traditional flame lighting, parade of competitors and musical performances. Only one-third of the Japanese public has had even one injection of COVID-19 vaccine. The low vaccination rates added to fears that the Games could become a super-spreader event. More than 100 people involved with the Olympics have already tested positive for the virus. A moment of silence was held ”for all those family and friends we have lost,” especially to COVID-19. The Olympic oath, repeated by the athletes at the end of the parade, was changed for the Tokyo Games. This year, the athletes promised their commitment to inclusion, equality, and non-discrimination for the first time in Olympics history. Welcome to ‘TOKYO 2020: Let The Games Begin!’

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

$15,000 Reasons to read this!

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“Michel was a great friend and bright light we need more of, miss him!Fitting as one of the all time great people in our business, in his name, this grant can pass the torch.Impressive help for the right person. Apply applications are due Monday August 2 Midnight EST.  $15,000 Fellowship. Questions or comments please email ffolwell@nppf.org Thank you. 

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

Congrats to ZUMA Photographer Carol Guzy! The WHNPA executive board has just announced that longtime WHNPA member Carol Guzy, has been selected to receive the 2021 White House News Photographers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award!

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CAROL GUZY is an American documentary photojournalist. As a young girl, ZUMA Press photographer, Carol Guzy always wanted to be an artist. But as she was coming of age in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pa., such an ambition seemed impossible. ”Everyone I knew said, ‘Oh, if you’re an artist, you’ll starve,”’ she recalls. ”You have to do something really practical.”’ So Guzy chose to go to nursing school. Halfway through she realized she would not, could not, be a nurse. ”I was scared to death I was going to kill someone by making some stupid mistake,” she laughs. So while she was trying to figure out what to do with her life, a friend gave her a camera and she took a photography course. Guzy fascination with photography led to an internship and then a job at the Miami Herald. In 1988 she moved to The Washington Post. Carol photographs have won four Pulitzer Prizes and three Photographer of the Year awards in the National Press Photographers’ annual contest. ”I don’t believe the Pulitzers belong to us, I think we just accept them for the people who are in our stories,” said Guzy. ”They’re the courageous ones.” From her shots of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to Albanian refugees fleeing violence in Kosovo, Guzy captures moments of disaster and human suffering

Carol has a storied career in visual journalism, including 4 Pulitzer Prizes and 8 WHNPA Photographer of the Year awards- and she’s not done yet!

You may read more about Carol in the press release link here:

Click to access WHNPA2021_Lifetime_Guzy.pdf

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