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Mar. 27, 2007 - Zhengzhou, Henan, China - Students stand among sand sculptures during a demonstration in Zhongyuan University of Technology. More than 3,000 students participate in the event, which is aimed at arousing interest in farmers.

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We lead off with “Rising Up,” a gripping survival tale that features striking photos by photojournalist Hans Gutknecht and equally powerful text by Brent Hopkins.

It’s storytelling at its best.

Our new feature, INDUSTRY, provides a behind-the-scenes look at major events in the picture industry.

Though many significant historical events from the last 90 days are covered

in this issue, the big stories are, without a doubt, the sad and jarring 8.0-magnitude earthquake in Sichuan, China, and the world’s reaction to the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in China. As we go to print, a typhoon threatens to disrupt the opening ceremony of the Olympics, heightening the tension associated with this eagerly anticipated event.

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Picture by Ulises RodrĂ­guez/EFE/ZUMA May 13, 2008 - Fraijanes, Guatemala - Locals take part in a popular violent protest against rising transportation costs.

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Butterflies Picture by Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times/ZUMA Apr. 1, 2008 - Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. - Senator John McCain, R-Arizona, holds a town-hall meeting at his alma mater, Episcopal High School. McCain graduated from Episcopal High School in 1954.

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fficer Kristina Ripatti grabbed the Ford Crown Victoria’s door and gave it a shove, springing forth into the hot June night.

She was with Joe Meyer, who’d been her partner for six months, and they were searching out gangsters in the Los Angeles Police Department’s violent Southwest Division halfway through 2006. As Meyer whipped 3 Charles One to the curb near Leighton and LaSalle avenues, Ripatti tore down the block, chasing hard after the suspicious-looking man in the hooded sweatshirt.

James Fenton McNeal had just knocked over a gas station down the street from the police station, but Ripatti didn’t know that yet. All the veteran gang officer thought about as she raced after the 52-year-old robber, who’d spent much of his adult life in prison, was that he was disappearing down the dark block.

Around a corner, across the lawn, up the steps of a fourplex apartment…Ripatti caught McNeal right at the door. As she grabbed him high, McNeal broke free, produced a .22 and shot her just

below her arm. In the struggle, the shot pierced just above her ribs, a weak spot not covered by her bulletproof vest.

She collapsed, her blood gushing forth in waves. McNeal took aim again, piercing her gun arm with a second shot, then a third, disabling h e r defenses. As he drew a bead on her head, preparing for the kill, Meyer caught up, drew his .45 and, aiming by the flash of McNeal’s pistol, killed the man with a volley of shots to the chest.

“The next thing I knew, I was falling to the ground, and Joe’s on top of me, holding me,” Ripatti said. “I just kept screaming for him to get off of me.”

Meyer, a shaven-headed ex-soldier, furiously worked to staunch the blood flow, using his big hands to plug the wound pumping blood from her torso.

Keeping one eye on the prone McNeal, Meyer keyed his radio and broadcast the words that strike fear and trigger immediate response in every cop’s heart.

“Officer down!” he yelled. “Requesting assistance!”

DTzine.com 16 Not far away, Tim Pearce, another 10year veteran gang officer, heard the frenzied yell in his patrol car. He looked nervously at his partner, who punched the lights and siren, and swung the cruiser onto the freeway.

Pearce knew the area all too well—he’d worked it as a young officer coming up in a gang unit. Back then, he’d partnered with the tough chick named Ripatti who wore her hair spiked and spent hours in the gym, hardening her physique and training for just such an emergency. Her brash manner had put him off at first, but he’d softened in time and grown fond of her.

So fond, years later once they’d split off into different divisions, he’d married her.

As they screamed toward the scene, Pearce tried to listen for his wife’s voice among the cacophony of calls coming over the radio.

“We’re not hearing her,” he said. “She’s either winged or she’s dead.”

Then he got the call. Ripatti was down and bleeding out. As they pulled up at the scene, Pearce leapt out and fought his way to the front of the crowd. When he found her, she was white as a sheet and her eyes couldn’t focus.

He kissed her tenderly, heart in his throat. Hoping for the best and fearing the worst, he worried it would be their last good-bye.

It wasn’t. By the time she reached California Hospital Medical Center, she’d lost 80 percent of her blood.

Ripatti kept battling. Trauma surgeons labored to keep her alive, telling her over and over that she needed to fight.

“What do you mean, fight?” she said.

“I’m not going anywhere.”

No one heard her, as she was slipping away. After furiously working to patch the holes and stabilize her, doctors finally got the wounds under control.

But as they looked at the X-rays, they realized they had a more serious problem with which to contend; McNeal’s first slug was still inside her body, lodged in her spine.

It was too dangerous to try to pluck it out—she was paralyzed.

For Ripatti, the diagnosis could hardly have been worse. She loved the physical part of her job and trained rigorously, so hard that she worked out nearly all the way through her pregnancy with their daughter Jordan. An avid surfer, off-road enthusiast and runner, she could no longer move any muscles below her chest. She would have to spend life in a wheelchair, her doctors warned her.

But the willful copper had other plans.

After a few days of private tears and heartache, she and Pearce decided they would not give in to the injury. This was just a new adventure.

Within two months of the shooting, Ripatti began intense physical rehabilitation at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, not far from her Redondo Beach home. Therapists stretched her once powerful legs, keeping them limber as the muscles withered. She learned to navigate the world on wheels and built up her arms so the angry, red scars became mere dots amid the muscle.

“When she first got here, she could feed herself and sit up in the bed, but that was about it,” said Dr. Ann Vasile, the hospital’s medical director of spinal cord rehabilitation. “She needed 100 percent assistance; now she’s about 25 percent or less. In the next few months, she should go back to doing things with no assistance.”

But Ripatti was not content with just learning to put her shoes on without a nurse’s help. She’d led a strenuous, physical life before that fateful June night, so she reasoned there was no need to back off. By the fall, she struggled into a black wetsuit and blue flotation vest at Bolsa Chica State Beach and rolled slowly in a wheelchair with oversized tires toward the waterline.

Pearce eased her into the water as a brother officer produced a 10-foot red and yellow surfboard.

“Great, Tim, what have you gotten yourself into?” Pearce thought. “This is gonna be like some bad Baywatch episode.”

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“She needed 100 percent assistance; now she’s about 25 percent or less. In the next few months, she should go back to doing things with no assistance.”

– Dr. Ann Vasile

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Mar. 27, 2007 - Zhengzhou, Henan, China - Students stand among sand sculptures during a demonstration in Zhongyuan University of Technology. More than 3,000 students participate in the event, which is aimed at arousing interest in farmers.

“They’re just good people. If there were ever two people who are able to deal with this, it’s them.”

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As the waves crested her blond head, Ripatti bobbed in the surf. Quickly, she acclimated to the motion and asked for the board. A good swell came up, Pearce grabbed her and threw her into the churning foam and soon, she was hurtling toward the beach.

Near the shore, she slipped from the 10-foot Dewey Weber and beneath the water. Ever watchful, Meyer came running, his powerful legs splashing through the surf.

“You OK?” he demanded as her head popped back into the air. She spat water and grinned.

“Yeah,” she coughed. “Get me out there again.”

Her refusal to submit to the injury’s confines made her and her extended family into reluctant heroes in the next year. The Los Angeles Dodgers asked her to throw out a ceremonial first pitch before a game. Maria Shriver invited her to speak at the California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women. The television reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition selected their tiny home near the beach for a radical fix-up, turning Ripatti and Pearce into nationally recognized figures.

In May of 2007, Meyer won the LAPD’s Medal of Valor, the department’s highest honor, accepting it wracked with guilt. Ripatti, who earned the Police Star for giving chase to the gun-toting crook, delivered an emotional speech that left many hardened officers in tears.

“Joe did not want to accept this award tonight. He believes he does not deserve it because I’m paralyzed,” she said. “But Joe’s actions are nothing less than heroic. He gave me a second chance at life.”

But that second chance wasn’t quite what she wanted it to be. A few months later, unable to return at the standard at which she believed was acceptable, Ripatti retired from the LAPD with a full medical pension. Chief William Bratton, who closely monitored her recovery, reluctantly bid her farewell

DTzine.com DTzine.com2119 from the department. Inspired by her courage, he remained close with her and Pearce, who went on to accept a less risky promotion as a gang detective.

“What drew me in was that they’re both such compelling people,” Bratton said.

“They’re just good people. If there were ever two people who are able to deal with this, it’s them.”

And as she continued to publicly struggle with rebuilding her life, Ripatti also labored in secret on another, more radical plan.

In addition to her heavy load of physical therapy and gym time, Ripatti also spent time working with the charismatic rehabilitation guru Taylor-Kevin Isaacs. The long-haired, soft-spoken trainer put her through a rigorous series of exercises away from the public eye at a Northridge gym, forcing her to reawaken old muscles that she could no longer feel.

By June 2, 2007, nearly one year to the day she’d lost the use of her legs, Ripatti, Pearce, Isaacs and Meyer returned to Dockweiler State Beach. Each year, cops gathered there for the Los Angeles Police Department Memorial Run and she’d always made it a point to participate. Only hours before the shooting, she’d run the course with her fellow officers in the Southwest Division.

This time, she’d do it from her chair, with Pearce running alongside to ensure she made it all right. Five kilometers later, face flushed from exertion, she approached the finish line.

Forty meters from the end, she pulled up short and paused as the rest of the crowd pushed ahead.

It was time to make a statement…from her feet.

Pearce and Isaacs helped her into a set of leg braces and she locked her fingers around the grips of a walker. Breathing deeply and wincing in pain, she began to push forward.

Months of training with Isaacs took hold. By flexing her powerful upper

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Her old squad followed behind, their claps and calls of encouragement growing with each hesitant step.

Shaking with the pain of exertion, she willed herself forward, grimacing with determination.

By the time she reached the finish line, barely able to stand but still defiantly jerking onward, a swarm of 1,200 cops gathered around. Their amazed cheers rose to a deafening crescendo. With one, final, determined step, she made it across. Pearce grabbed her in a mad embrace, looking deep into her ice-blue eyes and kissing her.

As the emotional crowd milled around, the fitness trainer helped his protégé into her chair, proudly smiling at her progress.

“That was quite a breakthrough for you,” Isaacs told her.

LAPD Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell, the department’s second-highest ranking officer, squeezed her shoulder and gently disagreed. He’d become close with the family and watched Ripatti’s evolution from her bedridden days to her triumphant return.

“No,” he said. “That was a breakthrough for all of us.”

Another word came to mind: miraculous. But she found a way to top even that stunning moment.

Eight months later, she found herself back in a Torrance hospital, surrounded by a team of doctors and nurses. Even after the countless hours in the gym and under Isaacs’ direction, Ripatti still couldn’t feel a thing beneath her chest as the doctor barked commands.

“Push!” the doc growled.

She had a scalpel and a suction machine at the ready in case something went wrong. This would be one for the textbooks if it worked out.

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Ripatti struggled and tried to force her body to respond. Her deadened mu s cl es beg an to f l ex . I t wa s happening.

At 4:37 p.m. Feb. 13, 2008, the paralyzed ex-cop gave birth to a blue-eyed, black-haired, 5-pound8-ounce, 19-inch healthy baby.

Nurses swabbed and swaddled him, and the family went back up to her private room at the Little Company of Mary Hospital.

A tiny head appeared.

“Now I can say it,” an exhausted Ripatti murmured. “I wanted a boy.”

Pearce stood at her side, beaming as he looked down at his newborn son. He leaned over and kissed his old partner’s forehead, knowing how hard she’d worked to fight her way back to that proud moment.

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“I could see it in her eyes,” he said.

“This made her whole again. When she had this baby, she took back her life.”

Text by Brent Hopkins

Lost Generation

Picture by Nikos Pilos/ZUMA

Mar. 16, 2008 - Belgrade, Serbia - Youths party at the Expo Center. Serbia’s younger citizens are disillusioned with politics. Tricked and cheated by opportunistic politicians, the country’s youths mock them and blame them for their country’s isolation.The next Serbian national election on May 11 will be a battle between those who vehemently oppose integration in the Euro-Atlantic structures and the ones who see the future of Serbia with the European Union and the West.

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Passion Time

Picture by JosĂŠ Manuel Vidal/EFE/ZUMA

Mar. 18, 2008 - Seville, Andalucia, Spain - The sound of drums marks the beginning of Holy Week. Around the country, centuries-old traditions are reenacted to commemorate the passion of Christ.

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Different Drummer

Picture by Francisco IpanaquĂŠ/EFE/ZUMA

Mar. 18, 2008 - Ballenita, Ecuador - As part of the Holy Week celebrations, a group of believers do the traditional cross washing. This is an important local part of the celebrations and traditions of Easter.

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We Will Raise the Flag for the Olympic Games

Picture by Wang Bin/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

Mar. 19, 2008 - Qingdao, China - China gets ready for the 2008 Olympics. Soldiers receive training to raise the flag in the opening ceremony of the Olympic sailing competition. Soldiers practice by balancing books and standing for hours against wooden boards.

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One Window at a Time

Picture by Yang Jianzheng/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

Mar. 21, 2008 - Shanghai, China - Window cleaners wearing Spider-Man costumes attract some attention at Daning International Commercial Plaza.

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A Touch of Color

Picture by Ana Venegas/The Orange County Register/ZUMA

Mar. 24, 2008 - Santa Ana, California, U.S. - Dhaval Khalas of Fullerton makes sure everyone gets a touch of color on the second day of Holi, the two-day Hindu celebration of spring. “The theme of Holi is peace, prayer and forgiveness,’’ explains Khalas.

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Big Sister

Picture by Stephen J. Coddington/St. Petersburg Times/ZUMA

Mar. 29, 2008 - Land O’ Lakes, Florida, U.S. - Parents Karoline Byler and Ben Byler prepare to pack their children up for the ride home as big sister Zoe, 4, leans over to kiss her little sister MacKenzie Margaret following the Byler sextuplet’s baptism ceremony at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church. The Byler sextuplets are (from left) Ryan Patrick, Eli Benjamin, Brady Christopher, MacKenzie Margaret (behind big sister Zoe), Jackson Robert and Charlie Craig. The Byler sextuplets were born Sept.

1 and are the first set of sextuplets born in Florida.

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Your Move

Picture by Li Ling Hn/Imaginechina/ZUMA

Apr. 2, 2008 - Chenzhou, Hunan, China - Huang Chuncai (right), 32, plays Chinese chess with his neighbors at his parents’ grocery store in Yulan village. Huang suffers from neurofibromatosis, an inherited disorder that caused the large tumors on his face. His mother He Baohua, 58, has several small sarcomas on her face. Huang was 4 years old when a lump began to grow on his face. When he was only a teenager, his left eye was entirely covered by the tumor, rendering him blind in that eye. The disease also deformed his backbone and stunted his growth. Huang is only 4 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 88 pounds. Huang has already received two operations at Guangzhou Fuda

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Tumor Hospital. The first operation was performed on July 24, 2007, in which part of his 33-pound tumor was removed. The second operation was performed on Jan. 7, 2008, in which approximately 10 pounds of tumors were removed. Huang was very satisfied with the outcome of his two operations, as now he can walk by himself, help his family do some simple farming and take charge of his parents’ small grocery. The remaining tumors on Huang’s face will be removed in a third operation, and the fourth operation will be cosmetic surgery.

Dead Man Walking

Picture by André Mourão/EFE/ZUMA

Apr. 3, 2008 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Members of Rio de Janeiro’s antidrug police unit discover the body of one of the 11 people who died during a police raid against an organized crime group that controls drug trafficking in one of Rio’s favelas. There were 11 confirmed deaths and eight arrests.

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Believer

Picture by Alejandro Ernesto/EFE/ZUMA

Apr. 4, 2008 - Havana, Cuba - Cuba’s Young Communist League celebrates its 46th anniversary today. The organization, which was founded Apr. 4, 1962, has over 600,000 members today.

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I Have a Dream

Picture by Jerry Holt/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA

Apr. 4, 2008 - Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. - Rain-soaked rose petals grace a plaque at the Lorraine Hotel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down 40 years ago.

Dr. King was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room while in the process of planning a civil-rights march in support of striking black sanitation workers. In 1991, the Lorraine Hotel was transformed into the National Civil Rights Museum.

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Out With the Old

Picture by Konstantin Zavrazhin/ZUMA

Apr. 6, 2008 - Sochi, Russian Federation - U.S. President George W. Bush (left) meets Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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The New Frontier

Picture by Ruaridh Stewart/ZUMA

Apr. 6, 2008 - Hanksville, Utah, U.S. - Boris Yim Shing Yik (commander) and Jan Gruber (crew biologist/health and safety officer), crew members of the Mars Desert Research Station, perform an extra-vehicular activity outside the habitat as part of the Mars Analog Research Station project. The Mars Society sponsors the project, which includes three additional Mars base-like habitats in deserts in Iceland, the Australian outback and the Canadian Arctic. Each habitat hosts a team of geologists, astrobiologists, engineers, mechanics, physicians and others who are studying their Mars-like environment to learn how to live and work on the Red Planet.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Picture by Kate Davison/eyevine/zReportage.com/ZUMA

Apr. 7, 2008 - Accra, Ghana - A man carries a bundle of electronic cables and other electrical components that are burned to melt off the plastic and reclaim the copper wiring. Discarded electronics equipment is one of the biggest sources of toxic materials, organic pollutants and heavy metals in city waste. Most of the secondhand electrical goods that are imported to Ghana from developed countries are beyond repair and are either dumped or crudely recycled. Dumping old gadgets into landfills or burning them in smelters exposes the environment and humans to a cocktail of toxic chemicals and poison.

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Rural Justice

Picture by Diario de Manabí/ZUMA

Apr. 8, 2008 - Manabí, Ecuador - Two Colombian nationals are beaten and burned alive by residents of San Vicente in the coastal region of Manabí. The Colombians supposedly robbed and murdered local businessman Ramón Zambrano and then fled by motorcycle. Residents who witnessed the murder captured the Colombians, doused them with gasoline, beat them and set them on fire.

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Free Tibet

Picture by RenĂŠe C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee/ZUMA

Apr. 8, 2008 - San Francisco, California, U.S. - Tibetan Americans and Tibet supporters gather at a peace rally at the United Nations Plaza the evening before the Olympic torch relay. Tibetan monks (from left) Lobsang Wangya Lhama, Norbu Damdul and Lobsang Gonpo from San Jose’s Gyuto monastery throw white flour in the air to bring purity and good luck.

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Texas Two-Step

Picture by Margaret Bowles/Cal Sport Media/ZUMA

Apr. 9, 2008 - Houston, Texas, U.S. - The St. Louis Cardinals’ Chris Duncan slides into home while teammate Albert Pujols tries to beat the throw to the Astros’ third baseman.

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Free Bird

Picture by Bryan Patrick/The Sacramento Bee/ZUMA Press

Apr. 9, 2008 - San Francisco, California, U.S. Ă? People at the UN Plaza protest the upcoming Chinese Olympics by releasing a dove onstage to represent the freeing of Tibet.

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Segway Kings

Picture by Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News/ZUMA

Apr. 10, 2008 - San Antonio,Texas, U.S. - Every spring, a civic group called the Texas Cavaliers hosts a 10-day festival in San Antonio to honor those who fought at the Alamo and San Jacinto. This year, the Cavaliers elected William H. Atwell II (left) to preside over the festivities as King Antonio LXXXVI. Fernando Reyes (right) was declared this year’s Rey Feo LX after raising over $433,000 for the Rey Feo Scholarship Program. Atwell and Reyes pose on Segways at Alamo Plaza.

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Hell on Earth

Picture by Nick Whalen/ZUMA

Apr. 9, 2008 - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - A body lies in the street, a victim of the food crisis. Unrest over the rising cost of living continues in the country.

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Check, Please!

Picture by Harry Hu/EFE/ZUMA

Apr. 12, 2008 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Waiter 231 leads the competition in the traditional waiter races.

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Death Musuem

Picture by Richard Crampton/ZUMA

Apr. 15, 2008 - Chiang Mai,Thailand - A group of monks walk by beds containing AIDS patients during a tour of the HIV/AIDS facility at Wat Phra Baht Nam Phu.Thousands are flocking every week to this temple at the foot of a small mountain in Lopburi, Thailand, 90 miles north of Bangkok. Wat Phra Baht Nam Phu, the temple of Buddha’s footprints, is home to 250 HIV/AIDS patients. A red and white painted barrier guarded by security men and barbed wire fences surround the perimeter of the temple to safeguard the community from the patients within. The temple became an AIDS hospice in 1990, when two HIV-positive men came to Wat Phra Baht Nam Phu and asked

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the monk Alongkot Dikkapanyo if they could stay. Two years later, he took in eight more HIV-positive Thais and turned his temple into an AIDS hospice. The Wat Phra Baht Nam Phu hospice offers about 300 beds for seriously ill patients and more than 200 self-contained single- or double-occupancy housings for those in the early stages of the disease. There is currently a waiting list of over 10,000 patients, with outpatient care being provided for about 2,000.

Walking in the Park

Picture by Nancy Kaszerman/ZUMA

Apr. 19, 2008 - New York, New York, U.S. - A worshipper carries a Virgin Mary poster while waiting to see Pope Benedict XVI ride the popemobile up Fifth Avenue alongside Central Park.

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Land of the Free

Picture by Jay Premack/ZUMA

Apr. 19, 2008 - Washington, D.C., U.S. - Michigan members of the National Socialist Movement protest against illegal immigration at the Capitol.

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True Love

Picture by Edmund D. Fountain/St. Petersburg Times/ZUMA

Apr. 25, 2008 - Tampa, Florida, U.S. - St. Petersburg Times reporter Sara Rosenbaum sits for a portrait with her boyfriend Mike Phillips at his home. Rosenbaum says her romance was saved when Ira Glass from National Public Radio came to profile her boyfriend for the show This American Life. Phillips, age 27, is paralyzed everywhere but his face and thumb as the result of a congenital condition. Rosenbaum had ended their relationship because she felt he had no room in his life for her. But after Glass came to do a profile, Phillips asserted himself more, hired professional caretakers and demanded his family respect his personal boundaries.

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Are We There Yet?

Picture by He Wenbing/Imaginechina/ZUMA

Apr. 27, 2008 - Pingjiang, Hunan, China - During a harrowing 30-minute stunt, showman Liu Suozhu, 46, drives a car across two steel cables suspended over the Miluo River.

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Who Is That Masked Man?

Picture by Ricardo Trabulsi/Revista Gatopardo/ZUMA

Apr. 28, 2008 - Mexico City, Mexico - Subcomandante Marcos is the mysterious masked military leader of Mexico’s Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).

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The Orange Revolution

Picture by Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA

Apr. 30, 2008 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Hundreds of thousands decked themselves out in full orange attire to celebrate Queen’s Day.

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HomeRoom

Picture by Xinhua/ZUMA

May 2, 2008 - Dengfeng, China - Students of a Chinese martial-arts school practice wushu at the foot of Mt. Songshan in central China’s Henan Province.

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SPF 100

Picture by Ash Knotek/Snappers/ZUMA

May 6, 2008 - London, England, U.K. - Female and male models pose in St. Pancras Station to launch this year’s Sun Awareness Week.

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From Athens to Kathmandu

Picture by Ian Buswell/ZUMA

May 8, 2008 - Kathmandu, Nepal - Police arrest Tibetan monks for protesting in front of the visa section of the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu. As the Chinese celebrate successfully carrying the Olympic torch to the summit of Mt. Everest, Tibetan exiles living in Nepal continue their almost daily protests calling for Tibetan independence and an end to the violence inflicted on the Tibetan people by the Chinese government.

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Slow Dance

Picture by Edmund D. Fountain/St. Petersburg Times/ZUMA

May 9, 2008 - St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. - Boca Ciega High School student Cherril Cope, left, 17, of St. Petersburg dances with Dunedin High School student Raven Williams, 18, at Pinellas Park High School during the annual gay-straight alliance. Gay-straight alliances in Pinellas County schools aim to provide a safe environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, straight, and questioning students. Williams and Cope both say that they are bisexual.

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When Up Is Down

Picture by Evens Lee/Color China Photos/ZUMA

May 12, 2008 - Chengdu, China - A bus passenger gazes out at the damaged buildings surrounding her moments after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck at 2:28 p.m.

According to the Sichuan provincial disaster relief headquarters, 80 percent of the buildings collapsed in the Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County after the quake, the nation’s strongest in 58 years.

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The Last Class

Picture by Xi Shui/Color China Photos/ZUMA

May 12, 2008 - Dujiangyan, Sichuan, China - A rescue crew lifts a student’s dead body from the debris of the Juyuan Middle School, which collapsed during the May 12 Sichuan earthquake. The Juyuan Middle School pupil died clutching a pen in hand.

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Crossing Guard

Picture by Wang Jiaowen/Color China Photos/ZUMA

May 13, 2008 - Mianyang, China - A soldier carries an injured girl on a damaged road after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake rocked a region of southwest China on May 12.

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TrafFICfifiJam

Picture by Yang Weihua/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

May 13, 2008 - Beichuan, China - Chaos ensues after a powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the Sichuan region of southwest China May 12, 2008, killing over 69,000 people, burying schoolchildren in collapsed classrooms and rattling high-rise buildings across much of East Asia

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Cavalry Is on the Way

Picture by Li Gang/Xinhua/ZUMA

May 13, 2008 - Mianyang, China - Relief paratroopers catch a plane to Mianyang, in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, shortly after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the region.

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Flag Day

Picture by Chen Zixuan/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

May 14, 2008 - Quanzhou, Fujian, China - Throngs of Quanzhou residents turn out to support the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay, despite the devastating earthquake earlier in the week.

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Red Light, Green Light

Picture by Claudio Reyes/EFE/ZUMA

May 15, 2008 - Santiago, Chile - Fire-hose tanks disperse crowds of students protesting the General Education Law (LGE), a proposed education reform package that would replace Chile’s current Organic Constitutional Education Law

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Putting Out the Fire

Picture by Eugene Garcia/The Orange County Register/ZUMA

May 15, 2008 - Fullerton, California, U.S. - After the annual promotion ceremony, Fullerton firefighter inductees (from left) Josh Thomasec, Bryan McConnell, James Holley and Mike Lytle get doused with buckets of water.

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Barbarian

Picture by Shayne Robinson/ZUMA

Reiger Park, Gauteng, South Africa - Police attempt to help a man who was set on fire because he was suspected of being a foreigner. Twelve people have been killed in a three-day wave of violence against immigrants in Johannesburg, as gangs of armed xenophobic youths rampaged through poor areas.

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Survival Game

Picture by Wang Jiaowen/Color China Photos/ZUMA

May 27, 2008 - Wenchuan, Sichuan, China - Children at a camp for earthquake refugees enjoy a brief respite from their tragic circumstances by improvising a game of table tennis. The death toll from the 8.0-magnitude Sichuan earthquake on May 12 is over 69,197.

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Family Tragedy

Picture by Evens Lee/Color China Photos/ZUMA

May 30, 2008 - Mianzhu, Sichuan, China - As her 5-year-old daughter Zhang Yuxin looks on, Xuan Li mourns for her husband Zhang Huibing, a teacher who died in a collapsed school in earthquake-ravaged Hongbai Township. Dozens of schools collapsed in the quake, killing an estimated 9,000 children. Grieving parents are angry that corrupt officials may have allowed for shoddy building construction, and parents are demanding the government punish those responsible for the buildings.

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Not Over Till the Fat Lady Sings

Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times/ZUMA

May 31, 2008 - Washington, D.C., U.S. - A proud supporter of Hillary Clinton, Elaine Fenwick, of Bend, Oregon, yells as she joins other protesters outside of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, as the Democratic National Committee’s Rules & Bylaws Committee meets concerning the seating of delegates from Michigan and Florida.

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The Children

Picture by Xi Shui/Color China Photos/ZUMA

June 1, 2008 - Sichuan, China - Relatives grieve over photos of the students who died in the earthquake at the collapsed Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in Mianzhu.The Chinese, who do not as a rule protest, were up in arms about the fact that official buildings were fine but the schools were particularly hard hit during the quake.

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Extreme Position

Picture by Gustavo Amador/EFE/ZUMA

June 3, 2008 - Tegucigalpa, Honduras - Local citizens and human-rights activists gather at the U.S. Embassy to protest the visit of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte.

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Going Through the Rabbit Hole

Picture by Christopher Pledger/The Daily Telegraph/ZUMA

June 5, 2008 - Mizan District, Zabul, Afghanistan - A British solider in the Parachute Regiment searches compounds and tunnel complexes for insurgents in southern Afghanistan.

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INDUSTRY

SPEED DATING

By Scott Mc Kiernan

June 4-8, 2008 - Malta - As conference attendees arrived in Malta, many were overheard at the airport asking, “Why Malta?” At event check-in, I overheard another attendee query, “Why Malta?” The woman to her side, piped in, “One of the commitee loves it here. You been here before?” Over the next four days, these were the two most frequently asked questions, along with “What deals did you make?”

Welcome to CEPIC, the photo industry’s version of Let’s Make a Deal and National Lampoon’s European Summer Vacation all rolled into one. Though most, it turns out, had never been to Malta, all will remember it.

1993 to provide a voice for European press and stock organizations in matters that relate to the photo industry. This year’s CEPIC Congress took place June 4-8 and drew 739 participants from 44 countries. Each year, the event grows, thanks to the hard work of CEPIC’s Executive Director Sylvie Fodor and her committee.

What is CEPIC? CEPIC, or the Coordination of European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage, was founded in Berlin in

As the agents and photographers gathered, many discussed the state of the industry and the big questions: “What does the

The commercial picture world is a pretty small industry, with under $3 billion a year in sales, when compared to the sales of, say, car tires, at $120 billion annually. For four fast-paced days this year, the center of the picture-licensing universe was Malta.

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Getty purchase mean?” and “How is micro stock changing the business?” Regarding the Getty purchase, a former Getty general mused, “Spinoffs, huge great new moves or huge layoffs? Greatness or the beginning of the end? Just, glad I do not work there anymore.” Even current Getty employees were overheard questioning the general economy of the photo business and a secondary big issue: micro stock. Surprisingly, troubled Jupiter did not come up hardly at all. As much as people talked about these topics, no one appeared to have an answer. But despite the industry’s state of flux, the overall mood was positive, as making deals and talking about deals monopolized conversations.

As the days went on, the conference attendees immersed themselves in the daily

ritual of “speed dating,” where hundreds of agents sat down for a few minutes in the hotel’s airplane-hangar-style confernce room for one-on-one wheeling and dealing, only to move on to the next table a few minutes later. Some looked totally drained and others exhilarated by the process. One agency head said, “I feel like the prom king. I made a record number of deals!” One man told his friend, “I made three extra big deals on the elevator after the farewell party.” One team, which looked even more all-business than the rest, was not so sure. “We talked a lot, but we did last year, too. Not much came of those meetings. I hope this year’s talk turns into something.” Then at the airport, a couple, who stated they had been to every CEPIC event since the first one, commented on the changes in this gathering after saying

it was best ever for their company. However, they lamented that the real characters— the photographers—are all but gone. This crowd, who now run our picture world, could be selling mobile phones or real estate.

The passion and zaniness is gone.

One thing everyone agreed about was that Corbis threw an amazing party. It was an elegant soiree at a beautiful, romantic Templar setting befitting my mental images of Malta as the home of the knights of Crusades. There was even some ver y entertaining sword fighting. It was a night to remember.

Next year’s CEPIC Congress is scheduled to take place in Dresden, Germany, June 3-7. And I am sure attendees of next year’s conference will ask, “Why Dresden?” See you there...

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PICTURES BY HENRY DILTZ DT:You made over 200 covers and some of the most famous record covers of all time.

How did your photography career begin?

Henry Diltz: I was a busy young

twentysomething—a touring musician as part of the Modern Folk Quartet. I bought a cheap used camera for $20 as a lark and started to use it. I sent it off to Kodak.

When we got back to L.A., we took the yellow box full of moments and set up a slideshow, and everyone loved them. I was hooked. Loved it for the first frame. I only wanted to remember exactly what I saw.

It was all about capturing images and moments, filling the frame with the essence of what I was looking at.

DT: Music’s loss was our gain.

HD: A musician’s life is hanging out, and I knew how to hang out. I was with my friends. I had no schedule, no agenda. I was an everyman, but I happened to have this entrée in a town, and it was a time full of great musicians. I still love playing. But I love photography, too.

DT: I love your iconic Morrison Hotel cover.

How did that come about?

HD: The Doors first called my partner Gary Burden, an amazing graphic artist.

He and I did all these covers together. We were a team. We went to a meeting at the Doors’ little funky office in Hollywood, and we were trying to discuss ideas. Ray Manzarek had been driving down skid row in Los Angeles and told us, “My wife and I saw this great old hotel downtown called Morrison Hotel.” And we all went, “Woo, that sounds great. Let’s go down and take a look.” So, we got everyone together and went down. We went in and told the guy behind the desk, “Look we’re just going to take a photo by your window there.” And he said, “Oh, no, no! You have to talk to the owner.”

“Well where is he?”

“Oh, he’s not here, he’s out of town.”

So, we went outside and said, “What are we going to do now?” And just then I looked in and noticed the guy left the

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desk and got in the elevator. So, I said, “Quick! Run back inside and just stand by that window.” And they just ran right in and just kind of hit the place where they were standing. We didn’t plan it, they just kind of went up to the window and kind of kneeled on the back of the chairs that were there. We went click, click, click and took a roll of film, and they were out of there and nobody was the wiser. Gary was always telling me to shoot from a longer point of view, so I went out across the street and framed it and that was that.

DT: Give us the tech info on that day.

HD: I shot Kodak Ektachrome X Slide Film back then and sent it off to Kodak.

They did the rest.

DT: Was the back cover from the same day?

How did you guys end up at the Hard Rock Café, and is it true that it’s the original one in the chain?

HD: That’s right, it was, sort of. Right after we walked out of the Morrison Hotel, Jim said, “Let’s go get something to drink.

Let’s go get a beer.” We were in this little funky Volkswagen van which the drummer owned. We drove down the block and Morrison yelled out as we were driving, “There it is. Stop there.We’re going inside, and we’re going to shoot the Hard Rock Café, and we’re going to have a couple of beers.” So, we parked the van, went in for about half an hour, having a beer or two, and talked to all the old wino guys that were in there because it was in skid row.

Once inside, Jim got introspective. He was a muse and poet, and this was a prefect place and time for him.The down-and-out loved him. He was buying them beers and hanging to their every word. They had no idea who he or Ray and the guys were.

Did not care. Beers and attention. Does not get much better for these guys.

DT: That sounds like quite a session. Did you know it was epic at the time?

HD: It was a great day. I always had a strong curiosity, and I wanted a front-row seat. A camera was a lovely passport into people’s lives. That day was like so many.

Then as a bonus, a strange magical thing happened a year after the album got re-

leased. Got a call from London and this guy asked, “Would you mind if we use that name on the back of your album? We’re starting a café over here in London and we would like to use that name.” And they said no, go ahead, and that was the beginning of it. Now every time I go into a Hard Rock Café, whatever city I’m in, I always feel like I should get a free hamburger.

DT: Have you been back to the original Morrison Hotel or Hard Rock Café?

HD: Yes, just the other day actually. The hotel is possibly going to be revived, as downtown L.A. is having a renaissance.Yet, the bar is long gone. I checked after the infamous Hard Rock Café birth call, and it was gone already at that time. Be great to shoot down there again...

DT: You sound like you still get the same excitement out of shooting all these years and covers later. What do you think of your legacy?

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HD: Yes, I am amazed at the accumulation of images that has resulted, simply by doing what I love to do, day after day after day. It’s a result of being with countless people over the years, waiting at the sidelines for the moment to happen.

Photography has been my passport, and I have arrived in the present, where I have always been, camera in hand. There! That says it best for me!

Henry Diltz never set out to take some of the most iconic photos of our era, it just happened. Fresh from a globe-trotting childhood, he attended colleges in Munich,West Point, then Honolulu, and later became known as a musician and founding member of the Modern Folk Quartet. This led to his many friendships with recording artists of the California rock community in the ‘60s and ‘70s. While immersed in this world, he accidentally discovered a passion for photography, which turned into obsession and occupation.

Diltz documented as he hung out in the scene. This he successfully achieved, beginning with a $100 sale of a single shot of Buffalo Springfield in 1966. In a memorable six-year partnership with design legend Gary Burden, the list of album covers and artists he shot grew to include names like the Doors, the Eagles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jackson Browne, America, Steppenwolf, James Taylor and Mama Cass. He was an official photographer at Woodstock and the Monterey Pop Festival, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Life, People, Rolling Stone, High Times and Billboard. Diltz is a partner in and is exclusively published and represented by the Morrison Hotel Gallery.

19th Annual

Women in Photojournalism Conference New Orleans, August 8-10, 2008 FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Melody Gilbert

Gail McCabe

Lindsay McCullough

Andrea Korff

Mona Reeder

Speakers

Mona Reeder, Dallas Morning News, Staff Photographer, Finalist for 2008 Pulitzer Prize Lindsay McCullough, VisionWorkshops Melody Gilbert, Independent Documentary Filmmaker Gail McCabe, US Army Reporter/Photojournalist/Producer Andrea Korff, CBS3 Philadelphia, Staff Photojournalist Pelin Sidki, CNN, New York

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The Crowne Plaza Astor New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana www.womeninphotojournalism.org

Aftermath

Picture by Evens Lee/Color China Photos/ZUMA

May 15, 2008 - Dujiangyan, Sichuan, China - A woman mourns as doctors try to call the trapped victims at a collapsed hospital in earthquake-affected Dujiangyan.The death toll from the 8.0-magnitude Sichuan earthquake on May 12 is over 69,197.

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