YOU ARE INVITED! ART OPENING!

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on September 13, 2018
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Please support Karen I. Hirsch Photography!

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Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W. 35th Street
3rd Floor Gallery, East Entrance
Chicago, IL

OPENING:
Friday, September 21, 2018 7-10 PM
Collectors Preview: 5 – 7 PM

CLOSING:
Friday, October 19, 2018
Closing reception features Chicago-themed open mic: storytelling, songs, and spoken word. http://www.chicagoinsideout 7-10 PM

Free Parking in the lot North of the Building off of Racine.

Bonus: When you check out the exhibit, come visit my studio which is also on the 3rd Floor at the end of the hallway on the east end of the building – Suite B3220

Karen I. Hirsch
khirsch@kihphoto.com
www.karenihirsch.com
www.karenihirsch.com/visualart

Sit back and enjoy POM! “The Pictures of the Month” presented by Scott Mc Kiernan and ZUMA Press. Images chosen from ZUMA’s huge volume of 1 million images from the month of August show the work of photojournalists documenting the most important events of the past month including the funerals of John McCain and Aretha Franklin, clashes in Gaza and more devastating wild fires around the world.

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on September 5, 2018
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POM_MASTER SOCIAL AUG2

ZUMA’s talented staff Ruaridh Stewart, Julie Rogers, Mark Avery, Shalan Stewart, Seth Greenberg and POM Editor Jim Colton contributed to this show.
PHOTOG LIST:
Amy Sanderson • Andrew Milligan • Apio • Arne Dedert • Ashraf Amra • Bryan Smith • Cao Zhengping • Cheng Min • Chris Rusanowsky • Christophe Gateau • Colin Hackley • Danny Lawson • Darryl Dyck • David Edwards • David Stockman • Emad Awad • Eric Lalmand • Erin Scott • Esteban Biba • Hallhuber Davids • Han Yinhe • Hao Qunying • Hasan Bratic • He Jinghua • Hoch Zwei • Igor Vidyashev • Ilia Yefimovich • Jens Buttner
Joel Marklund • John Sleezer • John Stillwell • Julian Stratenschulte • Katja Ogrin • Kelly Cestari • Kevin E. Schmidt • Kevin Warn • Kristin Callahan • Li Xiang • Lino Mirgeler • Lisa O’Connor • Liu Hongda • Mahmoud Khattab • Majdi Fathi •Marcel Kusch • Marius Becker • Mark McKenna • Matthias Oesterle • Michael Brochstein • Morry Gash • Nancy Kaszerman • Owen Humphreys • Paul Sancya • Randall Benton • Rehman Asad • Richard Ulreich • Robin Loznak • Ross D. Franklin • Rouelle Umali • Sajjad • Skanda Gautam • Song Weixin • Stefan Rousseau • Stephen Lock • Sun Jihu • Sven Hoppe • Tong Liping • Vaclav Salek • Vickie Flores • Wang Yuguo • Wu Zhuang • Yegor Aleyev • Yu Fangping • Yue Yuewei •Zheng Huansong • Zhou Zhiyong.
AGENCIES AND NEWSPAPERS:
Ace Pictures • Action Press • APA Images • Belga • Bildbyran • CNP • CTK • Detroit Free Press • DOD • DPA • EFE • Empics • ESA • i-Images • ImageCollect • Imago • Kansas City Star • London News Pictures •Matrix • NASA • Newscom • NurPhoto • PA Wire • Panoramic • Quad-City Times • ROPI • Sacramento Bee •SIPA Asia • Tampa Bay Times  TASS • U.S. Air Force • USGS • WSL • Xinhua • Yonhap News • ZUMA Wire

ZUMA Press Launches this week: “Woman at War”. Photography by Sebastian Backhaus/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press.

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on August 31, 2018
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Women At War

The YPJ is an all-female military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, made up of ethnic Kurds, Arabs and foreign volunteers. Emerging from the Kurdish resistance movement, the group’s numbers have grown from a single battalion in 2013, to over 24,000 fighters. Today, the YPJ says it makes up about 40% of the total Kurdish military in the region. The militia were involved and engaged in the Seige of Kobani and offensives against ISIS strongholds in Tabqa and Raqqa. After joining the guerrilla group, women must spend at least a month practicing military tactics and studying political theories from Abdullah Öcalan. The writer and philosopher is famous for his teachings on gender equality, female emancipation and self-defence. The group has been defending the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin from Turkish forces backed by Syrian rebels after they launched an offensive in mid-January. Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist group, an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which has led an insurgency in Turkey for decades.