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Two First Place Honors

November 9, 2005 - DANA POINT, Calif. - 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 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.

zNews

Paris Riots Rage On

Rioting and arson continued for the thirteenth consecutive night France. Maxxppp photographers have covered the violence since its outbreak. Click here to view more.

zSports

Slater Reaches Demi-God Status

As anticipated, U.S. surfer Kelly Slater won a record seventh world title in Brazil this week. At 33, this win makes him the oldest and most successful professional board rider in the sport's history. Click to view more of Slater's big win.

Philly Pitcher Arrested for Attempted Murder

Philadelphia pitcher Ugueth Urbina has been arrested on attempted murder charges in Venezuela after he allegedly threatened employees at his family's ranch with machetes and then doused them in gasoline and set them on fire. The family is not unfamiliar with violence. Urbina's mother was kidnapped in September, 2004 by drug traffickers and held for $6 million. She was rescued five months later. View more of Ugueth Urbina.

First Female Boxing Match Behind Bars! - by Steve Sandford/ZUMA Press

Being in prison for drug offenses didn't stop Thai female boxer Nongmai Sor Siriporn (26) from fighting for the World Boxing Council straw-weight world title. In fact, all she had to do was walk across the compound to meet her Japanese opponent, Nanako Kikuchi. This big event, organized by the Asian Boxing Council and Thailand's Department of Corrections, is part of a broader effort to support prisoners in their efforts to compete professionally while they rehabilitate. Click to view more.

zEvents

Generation KKK Opens Next Week in Scotland!

ZUMA Press and the St. Mungo Museum of Religious Art and Life proudly present Generation KKK: Passing the Torch, a photographic exhibition by ZUMA photojournalist James Edward Bates.

Venue: St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
2 Castle Street
Glasgow, Scotland

Dates: November 18, 2005 through April 9, 2006

For more information, please visit http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=13 or GenerationKKK.com.

The exhibit is generating quite a stir. To read a recent article in The Scotsman about it, click here.

zReportage Update

Cockfighter's Bird Flu Outbreak - by STEVE SANDFORD/ZUMA Press

Despite travel restrictions and mandatory passports for fighting cocks, bird flu continues to spread in Thailand among the prized birds. With fears mounting globally that the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible between humans, the brutal (and controversial) tradition of cockfighting is being closely watched. To view the full story, click here.

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