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ZUMA Receives Two Top Honors
November 9, 2005 - Dana Point, California - ZUMA Press photojournalist Sarah Meghan Lee is the first place winner of the 17th Annual Gordon Parks International Photography Competition. Sarah's winning image is of Paulette Vincent, a 19-year-old woman who was lying on a bench waiting for a specialist inside the General Hospital in Port au Prince, Haiti. The specialist never arrived and Vincent left the hospital still bleeding from her mouth and nose.
Gordon Parks himself, the world-renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, novelist, poet, hand picked Sarah's work for the top honor. Based in Mexico City, Sarah covers social, environmental and human rights issues throughout the region on assignments for major magazines and newspapers worldwide. She also teaches photography regularly at the Santa Fe Workshops in New Mexico.
To find out more about her award, check out the NPPA write-up at: http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/10/parks.html
Sarah is spending more time lately on in-depth photojournalism stories, like the one she did on Mexico's dodgy cosmetic surgeons, dubbed "beauty-killers." She discovered many young women were promised miracle treatments that would transform them into voluptuous models. Instead, they became monstrous shadows of their former selves. To view Sarah's "Mexico's Beauty Killers" reportage, click here. Full text to accompany the pictures is available upon request. Email pd@ZUMAPress.com for details.
zReportage.com photographer Hazel Thompson was also recognized with a major industry award this week. She placed first in the 2005 Observer Hodge Photographic Awards for her exclusive reporting of the horror 68,000 children face as they serve time Philippine prisons. Most are illegally detained on trivial offenses, yet all face the same cruel, abusive fate. Crammed together with adult inmates, some of whom are sex offenders, the children live in constant fear and in conditions amounting to nothing less than torture.
To view this story in its entirety, see: http://www.zreportage.com/LostTeen/
To book Sarah Meghan Lee or Hazel Thompson on assignment or to syndicate their work, please contact Trish Murphy at 949.481.3747.
About ZUMA Press
Incorporated in 1995 by photojournalists for photojournalists, ZUMA Pres is now the world's largest independent press agency and wire service. Establishing the first Website for image download back in early '90s, ZUMA now represents over 1,200 photographers worldwide and 33 of the best picture agencies around the globe, as well as over three dozen major newspapers. ZUMA photographers have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer, World Press, BOP and POY.
ZUMA properties include: Bearing Witness Book Series, picture books that have to seen; DOUBLEtruck magazine, the ultimate showcase of cutting-edge photojournalism; Keystone Picture Agency, the best visual history of the 20th century and beyond; KONA Pictures, art and commerce with flair; zReportage.com, the high-end, elite photojournalism service; and ZUMA Press, the flagship premium wire service for news, entertainment and sports pictures!
For more information, visit ZUMApress.com.
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