The 2018 Yunghi Grant

Lafi, 63, (no last name is given) tries to calm his grandson Yousef, 2, as he and his family joined other Internally Displaced People fleeing ISIS from Mosul as Iraqi Security Forces move to clear the city of the terror network, at Khazir Camp in Kurdistan Region.

The 2016 Yunghi Grant

“Hers was the first hand that held mine. Mine was the last to hold hers. Saying farewell to my mother Julia.”

“Stefanus Fotu Bataona (47), a Lamafa (whale harpooner), relaxes with his family in front of his house in Lembata island, Indonesia.
Lamalera is a small fishing village of 2,000 people in the east part of Indonesia where whaling has been an integral part of their life since 600 years ago, using wooden small boats, and hand-thrown bamboo harpoons to hunt.”

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press

December 25, 2018, Tijuana, Mexico: A group of Central American migrants hide on Mexican side of Mexico/US border wall, try not to be spotted by US border patrols and wait to find a good timing to jump the border fence. About an hour later they found a water pipe which leads to the US side of the wall also big enough for a person to crawl through. Soon after few of them reach to the US side, they were apprehended by US border patrols. Most of them had to crawled back to the Mexican side. The water pipe was then fenced and blocked on the next day.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press

American Supreme Court 1999 Olmstead ruling changed the landscape for millions of disabled Americans – but some still wait. Promises Kept, Promises Unfulfilled by award winning ZUMA Press photojournalist Robin Rayne is an in-depth case study on how 20 years later this important law has helped many but due to bureaucracy many more are still without help the law promises and should ensure. Maurice Smith, 37, has been locked up in the forensic unit of East Central Regional Hospital in Augusta, Ga for more than a decade, but was never charged with a crime. Smith asks to asks anyone who will listen the question uppermost in his mind for the last 11 years: ”When am I getting out of here? Teresia Blackshear comforts her son Mikaiah Epps, 20, who lives in a temporary crisis home because of his intellectual disability and mental illness. ‘He can’t live at home because my husband fights with him,’ she said during a visit. Mikaiah spent one year in a county jail because no other facility was available, she said. He awaits a Medicaid waiver that would provide better supports, but there are more than 6,000 other Georgia residents also in the waiting list. Whenever family was at stake, Nafeesah Shaheed was a fierce and tireless fighter. Until a medical accident catastrophically starved her brain of oxygen, leaving her bedridden and no longer able to speak, the social worker with advanced degrees from Columbia University and Hunter College in New York devoted her life to rescuing and reuniting troubled families. She was wherever families were at risk. Her husband and her eight children resolved to bring her home. They succeeded with the help of lawyers at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Legal Aid originated. October 2020 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Olmstead case, this epic U.S. Supreme Court decision solidified the rights established in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that individuals with disabilities have the right to live their lives in the community and in the most integrated setting possible.

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Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press

Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral Friday at 6:36 a.m. EST on an Atlas 5 rocket Kennedy Space Center Florida/USA, Nov 20, 2019. Starliner almost immediately ran into trouble when it was unable to perform its orbital insertion burn as planned. NASA Administrators says the problem will preclude the capsule from rendezvousing with the International Space Station as the capsule burned too much fuel during the anomaly.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press

White Supremacist groups emerged early-on in the history of United States. They usually operated clandestinely, in an attempt to avoid the attention of law enforcement and the media. Historically, these groups relied primarily on word-of-mouth notoriety to intimidate their intended targets. Their numbers were sporadic until recently. Now there is unprecedented growth in the number of and membership in, white supremacist groups. According to the Florida Gang Investigators Association (FGIA), a group that includes members of law enforcment, lawyers and Judges, about 25,000 Americans are hardcore ideological activists for the white supremacist movement, and though their numbers area tiny fraction of the population, they appear more visible today than a decade ago. They range from seemingly innocuous religious sects or tax protesters to openly militant, even violent, neo-Nazi skinheads and Ku Klux Klan Klaverns. Every morning, Chester Doles, a fourth generation Ku Klux Klansman, former leader of the white supremacist National Alliance, and convicted felon, begins the day around 5 a.m., sometimes doing the laundry and folding the clothes for the family, or else heading to the gym. The 59-year-old, a direct descendant of a Confederate General named Chester Pierce Doles, considers himself above all a mainstream white American. As he sees it, his own project is no different from that of a long line of white American leaders, even though these days, Doles’ claims he has softened his own description of it. The self-declared white nationalist now says he is simply fighting against the extinction of what he considers to be the ‘white race.’ He said he is a ‘God, country and family man’ who shares 95% of President Trump’s goals and is considering a run for Georgia’s legislature, to replace retiring state Rep. Doug Collins. Despite his violent past, Doles’ day to day reality these days is ordinary, more conventionally American than revolutionary. He likes his coffee with Creamora and Stevia. He is loyal to Harley Davidson motorcycle brand. He is known for his chili and omelets and hot, homemade salsas. He works at a job loading five-gallon water containers into trucks for distribution around his hometown of Dahlonega, in northern Georgia, and has a side job training body builders. He is a father of 13, a grandfather of 27, a man who clings to his old beliefs even as he tries to make them palatable to the changing world around him.

ZUMA Photographer Sergei Bachlakov 

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The Chilean government announced plans to roll out a $5.5 billion economic recovery plan after rioting and protests triggered the worst monthly contraction in a decade, and crippling the countries economy. In the current scenario of the Chilean economic crisis, the southern austral regions represent a historical and coherent example of the country’s problems. These are areas are scarcely inhabited, displaying a harsh landscape with vast forest areas, often beaten by the cold antarctic winds. These natural resources have always been themselves the subjects of economic speculations. The Chilean woodcutters in the community of Caleta Tortel, in the south of the Aysen region, endure daily hardships of survival which are compounded with bad weather and lack of resources in this remote and isolated area. Tortel is located several hundred kilometers from the regional capital Coyaique and was once only accessible by the waters of the Rio Baker and the Pacific Ocean. Chile is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of wood and wood pulp. Cutting and collecting logs has always been entrusted to individual lumberjacks. The artisanal nature of the activity and the harsh climate contribute to making the living conditions of workers and their families more difficult. The Cypress trees of Guaiateca are widespread in this region, a tree with flexible wood, very resistant to water and with highly flammable resins. The cutting of this tree is allowed by law only from the moment when the trunk is no longer green or considered dead. The chainsaw is the primary tool for the production of logs for both sales and home heating. Arriving only at the end of the 80s, however, chainsaws have not yet completely replaced the manual skill of the axe. In recent years, the difficulties have been amplified by the fall in sales prices due mainly to the development of mass tree extraction companies working in the more easily accessible areas (not least the Amazon region). And following decades of intensive forest cutting and clearing, the Chilean woodcutters today have to push themselves into an even more remote area regions, like the small islands of the southern fjords. To achieve a sufficiently profitable amount of timber the loggers work alone with their own chainsaws for up to fourteen consecutive hours, spending entire days in the rain or in the cold, away from their families.

December 6, 2019, Atlanta, GA: Anni Harjunpaa , 23, introduces herself as preliminary duding for the 2019 Miss Universe pageant begins. She hadn’t entered any beauty pageants until this year, when she was crowned Miss Finland.

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December 6, 2019, Atlanta, GA: Anni Harjunpӓӓ, 23, in swimsuit competition segment of preliminary judging for the 2019 Miss Universe pageant begins.

Photo Credit © Robin Rayne via ZUMA Press.

December 6, 2019, Atlanta, GA: Anni Harjunpӓӓ, 23, in swimsuit competition segment of preliminary judging for the 2019 Miss Universe pageant begins.

Photo Credit © Robin Rayne via ZUMA Press.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press