May 28, 2020, Hong Kong, CHINA: Security guard displaying a sign trying to indicate no photography is allowed in the vicinity of United States Consulate General in Hong Kong. American Consulate General is put on high alert after US Government reacted strongly against Chinese Communist government’s one-sided move to promote HONG KONG NATIONAL SECURITY LAW, introducing Chinese Mainland policing system into the former British Colony.
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ZUMA Press would like to honor the memory of Osama Jumaa photojournalist Osama Jumaa, whom died in Aleppo on June 5th 2016 after being hit by artillery fire as he was covering the offensive by government forces to retake the city from the opposition.
We send our love and compassion to Jumaa’s family and friends. As his colleague we mourn this senseless tragedy, as a human I personally continue my lifelong mission to do anything I can to mitigate all conflict and ask for bloodless solutions to issues and may the innocent be spared!
During his brave work Osama always maintained his impartiality, reporting with great integrity and always attaining to facts and pursuing the truth.
Students in Ken Martin’s photojournalism classes have been on the frontlines of history by photographing the coronavirus pandemic as part of their final projects.
Martin had students in both his Photojournalism and Creative Innovation: The Extended Photo Essay classes photograph the pandemic with images capturing deserted streets and parks in Boston, long lines of people waiting for food, home life during quarantine and local businesses that were affected by the virus. The photos were then compiled into a PowerPoint by each student to submit for grading.
“The projects were so exceptional,” said Martin, who has been teaching photojournalism at Suffolk since the 1980s. “We were way ahead of the New York Times as photographers to document what they were doing…I’m kind of proud of that, that we came up with this idea and we completed everything on time.”
Some of Ken Martin’s ZUMA images
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March 31, 2020, Sylhet, Bangladesh: Poor people are waiting on a queue to take groceries as a relief when nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
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May 31, 2020, Berlin, Berlin, Germany: People demonstrate in commemoration of George Floyd near the American embassy at Pariser Platz. About 200 people gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital to protest against police brutality racism and hate.
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April 24, 2020, Los Angeles, California, U.S: Najee Ali wearing a mask gets his temperature taken by a medical staff at the St. John’s Mobile Clinic to provide black workers with free COVID-19 testing.
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This arresting image at the epicenter of the demonstrations on the streets of Minneapolis near where George Floyd became a victim on Memorial Day, May 25th, 2020.
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May 28, 2020, Minnesota, USA: As the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct burns behind him, a protester and his friend proudly hold up a police belt during a riot over the killing of George Floyd. The city has entered the fourth day of unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, with rioters taking over the police department’s 3rd precinct building late Thursday night.
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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:
Abhisek Saha • Agvi Firdaus • Alexander Demianchuk • Allen Eyestone • Allison Dinner • Alyssa Pointer • Amir Al Mohammedaw • Anas Alkharboutli • Armin Weigel • Arne Dedert • Ashram Amra • Aurelien Morissard • Axel Heimken • Ben Gray • Bernd Thissen • Boris Roessler • Carlos Gonzalez • Chris Juhn • Chris Urso • Christoph Hardt • Christoph Schmidt • Dan Herrick • Daniel Mears • Darnella Frazier • David Crane • Dipa Chakraborty • Dwi Anoraganingrum • Elizabeth Flores • Evgen Kotenko • Fachul Reza • Greg Lovett • Hannah Mckay • Jason Ryan • Jay Mallin • Jeff Wheeler • Jerome Domine • Jerry Holt • Joe Burbank • Joel Marklund • Kim Shiflett • Luis Santana • Liu Changchang • Lucas Silva • Madji Fathi • Mairo Cinquetti • Marco Passaro • Mark Vancleave • Martyn Wheatley • May James • Md Rafayat Haque Khan • Michael Brochstein • Narayan Maharjan • Olena Khudiakova • Patrick Pleul • Paul Kitagaki Jr. • Paulo Lopes • Prabhat Kumar Verma • Ringo Chiu • Risa Krisadhi • Robert Michael • Roberto Monaldo • Robin Loznak • Robin Utrecht • Sachelle Babbar • Scott Serio • Sergei Bobylev • Simone Bergamaschi • Sonia Moskowitz Gordon • Stanislav Krasilnikov • Sunil Pradhan • Tim Thompson • Uli Deck • Vachira Vachira • Vanessa Carvalho • Vichan Poti • Vijay Pandey • Vladimir Smirnov • Will Lester • Yang Ying
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Music: ‘Wherever You Are’ by Roger Subirana Mata
May 23, 2020, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela: A girl waits get on a bus to return to her city due to the quarantine.
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May 28th 2020: Mohammad Rakibul Hasan is a documentary photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. He is currently pursuing an MA in Photography at Falmouth University, UK. He holds an Undergraduate Certificate in Higher Education in History of Art from Oxford University, pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism from Ateneo de Manila University and also graduated in Film & Video Production from UBS Film School at the University of Sydney. He was nominated for many international awards and won hundreds of photographic competitions worldwide including Lucie Award, Human Rights Press Award and Allard Prize. His photographs have been published and exhibited internationally. He is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and represented by Redux Pictures, ZUMA Press, USA and a contributing journalist for the Daily Star and Reuters. Hasan is also a consultant photographer and documentary filmmaker for Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, FAO of the United Nations, UN Women, USAID, Water Aid and major iNGOs. He is a Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Fellow. Hasan is also a faculty member of Counter Foto, a photography and visual art institution in Bangladesh.
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COVID-19 Reflections…
The Last Savings
Dhaka, Bangladesh
The world is at risk of widespread famines caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The impact of global economic devastation caused by Covid-19 has already declared as the worst humanitarian catastrophe since the Second World War. The number suffering from hunger could go from 135 million to more than 250 million. For Bangladesh it has become a human and food crisis catastrophe both.
House maid Hamida Begum who is now out of work said, “We only have forty Taka (Less than US fifty cents) at home. We have to drink poison, if we cannot go out for work. Who will save us from hunger?” The sufferings of approximately 7 million slum dwellers around Dhaka city are multiplying due to fall in income and price hike of consumer goods. There is hardly any food supply left in low income people’s houses, let alone ensuring cleanliness.
Most slum dwellers living in different parts of the capital no longer worrying about the virus and its infection but what worries them is hunger as they cannot go out for work. Their empty food storage and remaining little food supply can not save them from starvation and hunger in coming days.
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May 26, 2020, Hong Kong, CHINA: Cadets from Hong Kong Police Academy perform daily ritual of Flag Raising Ceremony at the Golden Bauhinia Square in the morning.
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