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Court Orders French Celebrity Magazine To Pay Homeless Man €40,000

Since its founding in 1949, the iconic French weekly Paris Match has published countless photos of the rich and powerful — and every now and then, a paparazzi shot might cost them. This time, instead, it was a homeless man demanding the magazine pay serious VIP money for running a photograph of him without his […]

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Geopolitics OneShot

Photo Of The Week: This Happened In Warsaw

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/K44uVqqyfiE expand=1] Poland is a nation divided. On October, its constitutional tribunal ruled that terminating pregnancy due to fetal defects was unconstitutional, making abortion almost completely illegal in a country with strong influence of the Catholic Church and among Europe’s most restrictive laws on this and other social issues. The abortion ruling sparked massive […]

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Watch: OneShot — Praying For A Miracle

Hellen lives with a mental health condition in Juba, South Sudan. She says she fell ill after the birth of her sixth child. With this powerful portrait, New-Zealand born photojournalist Robin Hammond won 2017 second prize singles at the prestigious World Press Photo, in the “People” category. In this OneShot, Hammond explains why he thinks this particular image of Hellen touched the jury. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/AVt2t5GHlL0 expand=1] Praying for a Miracle (©Robin Hammond/NOOR) | OneShot OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot:

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Society

From Spain, New Evidence That Robert Capa Staged Iconic War Photograph

After seven years of research, a determined academic says he has definitive proof that Capa’s legendary Spanish Civil War photograph ‘Falling Soldierâ’ was a fake.

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Geopolitics

Snapshots Of The World: Gaza, Ukraine, Pamplona

The news in images, and images making news…

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Geopolitics

Snapshot Of The World: Happy Holi, New Pound, More

Images that made news, the news in images … around the world.

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blog

Snapshot Of The World, Oct. 1-7

Orangutan activists, trespassing veterans and Chinese floods are among this week’s most striking photographs.

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Geopolitics

Snapshot Of The World, Sept. 17-23

Kenyan mall standoff, underwater concert, and a vigil in Pakistan are among this week’s featured photographs.

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Society

First Photo Of Gerard Depardieu As DSK

LE PARISIEN (France) Worldcrunch PARIS – No, Gérard Depardieu has not just been arrested in New York for nothing of the kind.. Instead, this is reportedly the first photo of the new DSK movie, directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Depardieu as the disgraced IMF boss accused and later cleared of raping a maid at […]

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Society

It’s Toddlers And Tiaras, European-Style

A casting call for kids in the Swiss Alps offers a somewhat softer image than the all-or-nothing American children’s paegants.

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Future

Virtual Thinning: Websites Offer Expert *Photoshop* Services For The Masses

BARCELONA – The couple looks in love and relaxed. The evening twilight gives the picture perfect lighting and the background is idyllic. But right next to them, in front of the Alpine range, there’s a herd of tourists with their horrible fluorescent bobble hats. You know them – the photo bombers, the people who just […]

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Society

Death And Beauty – When Is War Photography Art?

MUNICH – In his Munich art gallery, Daniel Blau has an exhibition called Death and Disaster, which features German and American war photographs. Whether to view these photographs as documents or art depends on one’s perspective. The pictures bear witness not only to death and destruction but also to the power of imagery as a […]

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Geopolitics

French Court Bans Publication Of Topless Kate Photos, Possible Jail Time For Photog And Editor

BBC, CHANNEL 4 NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), EUROPE 1, LIBERATION (France), NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (USA) Worldcrunch PARIS – A French court has blocked the future publication by a French magazine of the now infamous topless photos of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, reports the BBC. The court order prevents French magazine Closer’s publisher, […]

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