September 1, 2020, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: Workmen clean up GRACELAND, the ELVIS PRESLEY estate, one of the most visited homes in America. The popular tourist site was hit overnight with “Defund the Police” and “BLM” (Black Lives Matter) graffiti. The vandalism was on the wall outside his home in a space used for fans who want to leave messages. Thick black letters on the sidewalk along Elvis Presley Boulevard and other slogans were sprayed on the stone wall in front of the mansion where Elvis lived for 20 years, until his death on Aug. 16, 1977.
August 26, 2020, Austin, Texas, USA: Austin fire officials help hundreds of east Texans and west Louisiana residents get settled at the Circuit of the Americas race track after evacuating low-lying areas about to get hit by Hurricane Laura on the Gulf Coast. Laura is expected to make landfall overnight as a Category 4 storm and wreak havoc along the Texas coast and inland.
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August 27, 2020, Buenos Aires, Federal Capital, Argentina: After two days in a row with more than 10 thousand cases of people infected by Coronavirus, every 24 hours, the alarms came on again..At this time, President Alberto Fernü¡ndez is meeting with the Governor of the City of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodrüguez Larreta, and with the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, to define how the tenth stage will continue, starting next Monday. of Preventive Isolation in the Capital City and the Conurbano..For the rest of the country, the president spoke on Thursday with 12 governors of the districts most affected by the pandemic, to hear first-hand what the health situation is in these provinces.
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July 17, 2020, Buenos Aires, Federal Capital, Argentina: Despite the record of 4250 new infections and 84 deaths yesterday, President Alberto Fernandez, accompanied by the governors of the provinces most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, announces the start of a new stage of ”social responsibility” of the quarantine, in which there will be an opening of activities with the intention of decompressing social tension and relaxing the demands of merchants and recreational activities.
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August 26, 2020, Austin, Texas, USA: Children play as Austin officials help east Texans and west Louisiana residents get settled at the Circuit of the Americas race track after evacuating low-lying areas about to get hit by Hurricane Laura on the Gulf Coast. Laura is expected to make landfall overnight as a Category 4 storm and wreak havoc along the Texas coast and inland.
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August 12, 2020, Lake Hughes, California, USA: A helicopter makes a night water drop on the Lake Fire burning out of control near Lake Hughes north of Los Angeles Wednesday. The fire has burned more than 10,000 acres with no containment.
Wildfires burn in California, an explosion devastates Beirut and another shooting in Wisconsin prompts more nationwide protests. These stories and more as the August 2020 Pictures Of the Month for ZUMAPress is now published. #photojournalism PLEASE SHARE!
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 August. 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.
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. #zbestdaily #zuma24 #thePicturesOftheMonth #POD #thePicturesOftheDay #zumapress #photojournalism #pic #picoftheday
Photographers:
Aaron Chown • Albert Ivan Damanik • Alexander Flocke • Andre Malerba • Andrew Matthews • Angela Platania • Ben Birchall • Caroline Seidel • Chris Juhn • Christian Walgram • Christopher Drost • Cliff Welch • Danny Lawson • David Crane • David Stockman • Democratic National Convention • Dominic Lipinski • Fabian Sommer • Fadel Itani • Fred Kfoury III • Gwendoline Defente • Himanshu Bhatt • Houssam Hariri • Jane Barlow • Jeff Gritchen • Jessica Koscielniak • Joe Giddens • Kay Nietfeld • Kazi Salahuddin Razu • Keith Birmingham • Leslie Spurlock • Lisa Marie David • Liu Chan • Marcel Kusch • Mark Hertzberg • Marty Bicek • Marwan Naamani • Marwan Tahtah • Matt Crossick • Michael Kappeler • Natalia Fedeosenko • Nayem Shaan • Neal Waters • Olena Khudiakova • Owen Humphreys • Paul Kitagaki Jr. • Paul Kuroda • Peter Kovalev • Petter Arvidson • Robin Loznak • Roman Shrestha • Saquan Stimpson • Sean Meyers • Sergei Bobylev • Skanda Gautam • Terry Pierson • Tim Goode • Tracy Barbutes • Valery Sharifulin • Yuri Gripas • Zhu Xudong • Zou Xunyong
Newspapers, Picture Agencies + Wire Services:
APA Images • Abaca • Apoc Store • Balkis Press • Belga • Bildbyran • DDP • DPA • EMAE • GDA • GEPA • IPA • Icon SMI • Imago • NOAA • NurPhoto • O Globo • Orange County Register • PA Wire • SHIFT Digital • SMG • TASS • Ukrinform • Xinhua • Yonhap News • ZUMA Wire
Music: ‘The Epic Quest’ by Grégoire Lourme
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August 24, 2020, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela: Several people, including seniors, line up to enter the bank, taking advantage of the beginning of the week of flexible quarantine.
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zReportage.com Story of the Week #751: TUESDAY September 1, 2020: ASYLUM LOTTERY by ZUMA Press Newspaper San Diego Union Tribune photographer Nelvin C. Cepeda together with reporters Kate Morrissey and Lauryn Schroeder worked together multi-part series that explores the asylum system and whether it is working the way it was intended. The administration has already remade much of the asylum system, claiming it is rife with abuse and overwhelmed with undeserving claims. Its policies include making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico while their claims are heard in U.S. court and denying asylum to anyone on the Mexican border who passes through another country on the way to the U.S. without first seeking protection there. An asylum seeker’s chances at protection hinge on numerous factors that often seem arbitrary, from location to nationality to individual judge assigned, according to a Union-Tribune analysis of immigration court records. For the world’s most vulnerable, protection in the United States has all but disappeared. Welcome to: ASYLUM LOTTERY
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