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Marcus Yam: From Aspiring Astronaut to a Pulitzer Prize in Photography
Marcus Yam flying on an Afghan Air Force UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter on a resupply mission in Gardez, Afghanistan, on May 9, 2021. Exactly a year later, he earned a Pulitzer for his coverage of the fall of Afghanistan. Photo by Nabih Bulos of the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times roving foreign correspondent and photojournalist Marcus Yam was recently awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography “for raw and urgent images of the U.S. departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country.” PetaPixel spoke with Yam to learn about his journey from growing up in Malaysia and studying aerospace engineering to…
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Photographer David Hancock’s 30-year journey documenting Australia’s wild buffalo
Ever since the buffalo was introduced to Australia nearly 200 years ago, its relationship with the land has been a complicated one. Small herds were imported from Asia by the British in the early 19th century, as a food source. However, when colonists abandoned their northern settlement on Cobourg Peninsula in 1849, those herds were released into the wild. Springs are especially susceptible due to lack of water flow.(Supplied: David Hancock) The colony was the third failed attempt at colonisation of the Northern Territory’s Top End, where the British had hoped to gain control of Dutch trading routes. Disease, malnutrition and cyclones made it too challenging. While the harsh conditions were too much for…
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Iconic Myrtle Beach photography studio moves out of Arts and Innovation District, takes 70 years of history with it
MYRTLE Seaside, S.C. (WMBF) – Seventy many years worthy of of some of Myrtle Beach’s oldest photographs are temporarily headed to storage. Photographer Jack Thompson moved his photo studio out of its downtown storefront this 7 days. With as a lot of illustrations or photos as Jack has captured in excess of the a long time, he intends to seize a new put to display screen all of that work, and he’ll get a minor support producing that come about. “The very first one was of course the pavilion, and the fireworks of the pavilion,” explained Thompson, reflecting on the start of his profession. Sixty-nine a long time back, back…
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See the best new architectural photography honored by AIA Los Angeles | News
anchor Santa Fe by Ryan Gobuty. Image courtesy AIALA. The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|LA) has announced this year’s winners of the annual Architectural Photography Awards. Fifteen individual artists and photographers working locally and around the world were recognized across three separate categories of Best Image, Rendering, and Instagram feed. Individual winners like the UK’s Marcus Peel were commended for their “interplay of the monochromatic colors and the shadows that almost sets this abstract shape in perpetual motion.” A statement from AIA|LA said, “the 2022 suite of winning photographs also demonstrate how successfully photographers can reinterpret well-known…
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TV series begins photography in New Mexico | Local News
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2022 Pulitzer Prize: These photos by Marcus Yam won
Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and photojournalist Marcus Yam was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography on Monday for his compelling coverage of the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. It is remarkable that he won journalism’s highest honor in his first year as a foreign correspondent. This Pulitzer is the culmination of all the great work Yam has produced over the last seven years at the Los Angeles Times. When the U.S. announced that it would pull American troops out of Afghanistan, Yam believed this would not end well and he needed to be on the ground covering it from beginning to end. We, of course,…
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