April 21, 2004: Volume TWO, ISSUE 16

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April 21, 2004 - San Clemente, CA - Contrary to the White House ban on publishing images of U.S. soldiers' coffins or burials, on Sunday, the Seattle Times took the bold step of running a picture of flag-draped coffins being loaded onto a plane out of Kuwait. A touching article that added context to the image accompanied the picture.

The photograph, represented EXCLUSIVELY by ZUMA Press, was shot by TAMI SILICIO, a Seattle resident who works on contract at the U.S. military section of the airport. Silicio was struck by the amount of esteem that the soldiers' remains received from all involved in returning them home.

"Everyone salutes with such emotion and intensity and respect," Silicio told the Times. "The families would be proud to see their sons and daughters saluted like that."

Silicio's employer claims she "violated U.S. government and company regulations" by taking the picture and fired her as a result. This response deeply concerns us. We believe that Silicio's image is an important one and the public deserves to see it--no matter what conclusions they draw from it.

For more information about the story behind this image, we encourage you to read the Seattle Times' "The Somber Task of Honoring the Fallen," written by Hal Bernton. For licensing information, please contact ZUMA Syndication Manager Warren Winter at 646.325.3221.




ZUMA Press photojournalist RICHARD SOBOL is winding up a three-year assignment that captures the evolution of the largest and most challenging construction project in the extraordinary portfolio of master architect Frank O. Gehry. With the dedication ceremony for the MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center scheduled for May 7, Sobol is able to reflect on his work thus far.

"I always viewed this project as a story, and never as a construction site. In fact, prior to this assignment, I had never photographed a construction site at all. And that's what got me the job," says Sobol.

In search for the perfect person take on this documentary challenge, MIT interviewed and tested three different photographers including Sobol. Each was given time to explore the work site in the early stages of excavation and take sample pictures.

"When I showed my images to the MIT project manager, she spent a long time evaluating each picture, asking for descriptions of how the image was made and getting a sense of my work style," says Sobol.

"You mean you treat this the same as you do in your wildlife work and wait for the situation to evolve in front of you?" the project manager asked. "And you have never shot construction before? I think you might be perfect for this!" she exclaimed.

"I didn't know it at the time, but what MIT was looking for was an outside perspective from someone with no preconceived ideas or vision of the construction process. This was a new world to me, for me every shoot was novel," says Sobol. "For me, it was all about the discovery."

And so, Sobol was hired. MIT's challenge to him was to tell the story and unravel the mystery of how a team of talented craftspeople and tireless musclemen and women solve the thousands of problems that are present when they build a new building, especially a Frank Gehry building, which stretches the technological boundaries of the construction industry.


The Stata Center is a magical construction and Sobol's images will become part of its history. Next week, MIT Press will release Building Stata: The Design and Construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT with photography by Sobol from excavation to habituation.

In addition to shooting the building itself, Sobol developed a "supportive and gracious" working relationship with Frank Gehry. Sobol has taken a number of strong environmental portraits of the master architect on the job site, in his Santa Monica studio and up against one of his signature stainless steel exteriors (showcased above).

To view more of Richard Sobol's work, click here. Text is available to accompany this story. For more information on the text, or to book Sobol for an assignment, please call Ruaridh Stewart, ZUMA's Picture Desk Manager, at 949.494.7704.


All images above of the Stata Center and Frank Gehry, İRICHARD SOBOL/ZUMA Press.


Us Weekly featured a full-page spread of these exclusive images of actor COLIN FARRELL, who was photographed at the tender age of 19 in Sydney, Australia. Photographer STUART CAMPBELL of Austral--ZUMA's hot agency partner Down Under--took the pictures for Farrell's acting portfolio.

Check it out in the April 26 issue of Us Weekly (page 30)!

To view more from this great set of Farrell images, click here.



ZUMA Press Sports Pictures of the Week


Images from left to right: Soccer, anyone? Scotland Thistle's CRAIG BREWSTER and Dunfermline Athletic's BOBBY MANN collide during a semifinal game in Glasgow, İMATTHEW ASHTON/Empics/ZUMA Press; NIAMH KEANE watches fellow ballerina MADDIE WILSON take a winning bow in Boca Raton, Florida, İUMA SANGHVI/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Press.


Image The Newport Beach Film Festival is off to a great start. As the official wire service of the festival, ZUMA Press continues to host all photographic coverage of the event and distribute images to media outlets around the world.

To check out some of the directors, producers, actors and other personalities that have attended the NBFF thus far, click here.










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