DOUBLEtruck Magazine Issue 9 July - September 2007

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REPORTAGE Z M A R T Y R ’ S P R E S E N T S

KINDERGARTEN

PICTURES THAT NEED TO BE SEEN

B A C K S TO R Y : D A V I D

H E A L E Y

PAM’S SONG

world’s best news pictures aug. 3 - sept. 27, 2007

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Welcome to DOUBLEtruck Magazine –

FALL 2007-Issue NINE! This issue contains images taken between Aug. 3 and Sept. 27, 2007

doubletruck: n. An ad or editorial project that covers two facing pages. The term originates from the days when heavy forms for newspaper pages, largely filled with lead type, were rolled around the composing room floor on heavy carts called trucks. Two pages for one project meant a doubletruck.

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News is everywhere. The pictures are here.

We’re proud to bring you DOUBLEtruck Magazine issue nine. Enjoy 100 pages of uninterrupted two-page spreads that highlight the best photography shot between Aug. 3 and Sept. 27, 2007. Do not miss Martyr’s Kindergarten, the bonus 14-page zReportage.com supplement that takes us inside a world where children are trained to be human weapons of mass destruction. The evenhanded reporting on this phenomena by consummate photojournalist Nikos Pilos makes for very strong reportage. Also check out David Healey’s graceful documentation of his wife’s last days in this issue’s Backstory, Pam’s Song.

Carpe Diem Seize the day. It’s such a simple concept, but it’s not always easy. Traveling around the world going to countless photo industry-related events, the never-ending song I hear is gloom and doom. Maybe it’s our nature as photojournalists to whine. Instead of complaining, let’s seize the day. Why not?

There has never been a better time to be a photojournalist, documentary photographer or artist. It appears to me that this is the best time ever to be a maker of strong images, an imagologist. There are more outlets than ever, more communities. We are in the age of the image. The photography produced by journalists is but one form of the new age, a force within to be reckoned with. The world is no longer just populated with newspapers and magazines. The iPhone is the new magazine.You are the new media.

Editorial images are showing up at galleries worldwide with strong prices for first time. Some photographers are getting previously unheard-of large sums of grant money. Others are forming New Kids on the Block-like groups and receiving lots of accolades, swag and rock-star status from the international corporate picture world; though they are not producing very much content, they are getting a lot of love. We can all use love. Technology is quickening the pace, and in a way, it’s helping to make it a more democratic industry that’s accessible for all. Quality, journalism and speed are winning the day more often than not. These are exciting times.

Everyone takes pictures, and the amazing new digital machines allow all access for the masses to our world. This, too, can help us. With their interest comes demand, need and desire for premium content and ideas.The more the masses understand images, the more value the high-end gets.We the professionals make images.We are the high-end.To make exceptional photos takes it beyond the simple act of random picture-taking. Excellence always has a place, a premium spot in the world order. With this can also come value. The economic forces of the industry are driving down the price and per-item value of the middle- to low-end products, and this scares many. Change is not welcomed by most in general. That’s human nature for the most part. The upside is if you excel in quality or delivery or a combination of those, you will rise above the fray. The other great element of photography today is the world sees and uses photography and embraces it.

So, go out and pursue your passion as an imagologist and submit the proof to DOUBLEtruck Magazine.We will run the best and brightest examples. We welcome all and never edit based on author. This is your platform. Carpe diem!

Thank you for your support.

Scott Mc Kiernan Publisher

F1 Ballet

Picture by Sutton Motorsports/ZUMA

Sept. 14, 2007 - Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium - German Ralf Schumacher speeds by in his Toyota TF107 on practice day at the Formula One World Championship Belgian Grand Prix.

DOUBLEtruck

PIC TURES THAT NEED TO BE SEEN

Wor ld’s best news pictures from Aug. 3 to Sept. 27, 2007

Volume IV, Issue NINE FALL 2007

Scott Mc Kiernan, Publisher, Editor in Chief & Creative Director Kelly Mc Kiernan, Managing Editor Scott Mc Kiernan, Director of Photography, Gretchen Murray, Associate Art Director Michael Tweed, Sales Alyssa Richards. Assistant to the Editor

For distribution, sponsorship and general inquiries, contact Scott at Scott@DTzine.com.

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Yippee Ki-Yay!

Picture by Elly Tan/HBL Network/Maxppp/ZUMA

Aug. 27, 2007 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The annual Kuala Lumpur International Tower Jump returns in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the country’s independence. Over 120 base jumpers have congregated to leap off the Kuala Lumpur Telekom Tower, the fourth tallest telecommunications tower in the world at a height of 421 meters.

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MARTYR’S

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n the mosque, the children of Martyr’s Kindergarten listen attentively to the sermon of the imam. In the summer camps, those same children pass their days simulating military exercises. It would be legitimate to presume that these insouciant boy scouts will be transformed into the “martyrs” (or suicide bombers) of tomorrow. But is that true?

Even before the landslide victory in the recent Palestinian elections, Hamas enjoyed wide popular support in the Palestinian territories, and especially inside the Gaza Strip. The late Sheikh Ahmed Yasin in Gaza established the organization in the wake of the Intifada in 1987. Hamas is an acronym for Islamist Resistance Movement, but the word also signifies zeal. Its aims are the destruction of Israel and the foundation of a Palestinian state “from the sea to the river, from the Mediterranean to Jordan,” where the Islamic law, Sharia, is applied.

Hamas, labeled as one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the world, is responsible for the killing of thousands of Israelis in suicide bombings. Unlike the West Bank, where little activity (legal or illegal) is possible under the Israeli occupation, Hamas is visible in everyday life in the Gaza Strip: streets flooded with gigantic martyrs’ portraits, distribution of pamphlets by the Izzedine al-Qassam, Hamas’ military wing, and public demonstrations with armed gunmen are common.

But in the Palestinian territories and especially in the Gaza Strip, Hamas is seen more as a substitute for the impotent and corrupt Palestinian Authority than as a military organization.

Mahmoud Zahar, 63, who founded Hamas with Yasin in 1987, who was recently elected as the majority leader in the Palestinian parliament, defines Hamas in simple terms.

“The military is just one of the branches of the same tree. Hamas is also a political party, an umbrella of social associations, but

most of all, a spiritual guide proposing an Islamic way of life,” says Zahar.

Hamas operates an active network of social institutions and welfare activities that integrate children (boys and girls) from age 5 and up. Hamas offers education through schools, religious instruction through sermonizing at mosques, entertainment for orphans at summer camps and charity through associations that support families without resources. It even runs a volleyball team that used to represent Palestine in tournaments in Arabic countries.

The majority of the families of these children have no special ties with Hamas. In most cases, families send them to the mosque, the school or the summer camp for reasons that have little to do with politics or even religion. For example, joining a Hamas summer camp fulfills basic needs—food, education, sports and entertainment—that are not met in Gaza due to the constant humanitarian crisis.

Whereas the Fatah establishment is constantly accused of corruption, Hamas people are thought to be humble and incorruptible. It may sound like a paradox, but Hamas provides these families with a feeling of security.

The Gaza Strip is literally a strip of sand by the sea, so life in Gaza has always been connected to the beach. All Palestinian factions organize summer camps across Gaza, but the Hamas

camps are by far the most popular.

Camps and schools use names such as “Flame” and “Light,” or they’re named after famous Hamas martyrs. (Every militant or civilian killed by the Israeli forces is called a martyr.) We visit one such camp in Beit Lahia, a suburb north of Gaza City.

Here, admittance is limited to boys who are orphans, sons of martyrs.

The daily program starts at 6 in the morning. Breakfast is a hot falafel (an Arabic pita bread wrap made of chickpeas) and tea.

During the day, children learn passages from the Holy Quran by heart, attend the religious sermon in the nearby mosque or listen to lectures by invited scholars of the Islamic University of Gaza.

The mosque is the center of all Hamas activities—this applies to children’s activities too. The word for mosque in Arabic is jame3, but if you change just one letter, it becomes jam3a, which stands for university. Apart from its religious role, the mosque is a place for the mobilizing community. There are even claims that the mosques are used as a point of departure for terrorist attacks. More than a shrine, it serves as a school.

According to several studies, there is a constant process of political persuasion and recruiting among believers. But here in Beit Lahia, the boys’ tutors insist that no political messages are conveyed to the children.

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DTzine.com 15 But Dr. Zahar, a leader for Hamas, insists on the clear distinction between the “jihad” (holy war) and the social and educational work.

Every time the political situation with Israel becomes critical, in the mosques known for their close ties to Hamas, young people appeal to the imams to join the military wing. Some of them volunteer for suicide attacks, only to be dissuaded. “Offer is bigger than demand,” comments a Hamas teacher. More than once, Hamas had to issue a formal statement that averted children from being martyrs.

For the “scouts” in the Beetlahia camp, military leaders are like idols. They’re invisible idols, since no one ever sees them while they live, but everyone worships their icons once dead. Video footage with speeches, sermons or even the meticulous preparations before a suicide mission goes round from hand to hand.

Each child selects a hero from Arabian history or a recent Hamas exploit and then narrates the story to the other children.

In between classes, the youngsters play football, learn martial arts or go to the beach for a picnic.

Hamas encourages children to practice sports, but in the past, the position of the Islamic organizations was more ambivalent.

Football was chastised for driving people away from mosques, but today the tutors themselves play ball with the youngsters in the sand fields adjacent to the Beit Lahia mosque.

Hamas provides educational structure for the girls also. Dr. Zahar says that Hamas wants “women to study and work. We want them to participate fully in public life.” The curriculum in these schools tries to reconcile tradition with modernism: female students learn patriotic poems in English and are taught how to use computers, always under the instruction of female teachers, separate from the boys, and in full accordance with the Islamic dress code.

The Gulf countries affluently funded Hamas. However, after the 9/11 attacks, it has been extremely difficult for institutions linked to Hamas to acquire financing from the West. Still, Hamas-affiliated associations operate some of the most modern, newly constructed schools and hospitals in Gaza.

In some Hamas camps, like in the Mawazi area, south of Gaza City, infrastructure is poor. Children often train in slippers, and their trainers carry wooden sticks instead of gym instruments.

Water is scarce, and no fixed telephone network is available (but the use of mobile phones is spreading fast).

Back at the Beit Lahia camp, the children are scheduled to climb a hill today. The weather is unbearably hot, but children keep on running or crawling, following their tutors’ orders. One of the natural leaders here is Ramadan. Despite being exhausted, he smiles at me: “We learn how to infiltrate in the settlements.”

Whether a joke or not, Ramadan’s tutor, Samir, insists that the aim of this camp is not military training, nor political propaganda. “These children know the situation, they don’t wait for me to teach them about injustice. They listen to their parents.

“Offer is bigger than demand,� comments a Hamas teacher. More than once, Hamas had to issue a formal statement that averted Children from being martyrs.

“That is why we have so many children.

As long as they fight us, we will be breeding. I have seven more children to offer to my homeland.�

DTzine.com 21 They watch television. They are the very same children that throw stones at Israeli tanks that invade their land.”

Ramadan lost his father when his was 4. The Israelis killed him, as he was a militant of Izzedine al-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas. Today, Ramadan is 14, and he doesn’t want to be a doctor, a lawyer or even an athlete. He wants to be a fighter, or what some would in the West call a terrorist. His elder brothers have already taken part in the armed struggle against Israel.

Not all children in the camp share Ramadan’s ambition. Hamas’ message is not merely a warlike one. The organization influences Palestinian society in various ways, some of them intellectual. The most prestigious educational institution in Gaza is the Islamic University. Formally, it is not connected to Hamas, but in reality, everybody understands the affiliation with the organization.

But the question is not what young people want to do with their lives but what are their alternatives. According to Eyad al-Sarraj, a renowned psychiatrist and secular political activist in Gaza, “the major problem at the age of 18 is the lack of hope for the future. People ask themselves, What’s the point of studying, when the future seems so uncertain?

We are invited by Ramadan to visit with his family in his home.

After five minutes, it becomes obvious who is the real boss: an overweight, imposing granny, who claims to be 60, but looks much older. She gesticulates with fury against Bush and Sharon. She has just returned from a visit to her two sons in the prison of Beer-Sheva in Israel. I ask her, “How does it feel to lose a son?” She responds, “That is why we have so many children. As long as they fight us, we will be breeding. I have seven more children to offer to my homeland.”

Text by Nikolas Leontopoulos/ZUMA

Capital Punishment

Picture by Siavash Habibollahi/ZUMA

Aug. 3, 2007 - Tehran, Iran - Members of Iran’s special police forces prepare to hang Hossein Kavousifar (center), one of two men convicted of murdering an Iranian judge who had jailed several reformist dissidents. A large crowd gathers to witness the first public executions in the capital in five years.

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Follow That Cab!

Picture by TPG/ZUMA

Aug. 3, 2007 - Zhengzhou, Henan, China - A pedicab driver takes passengers through a flooded street after a summer storm. A strong typhoon hit Lianyungang the night before and damaged public facilities in Jiangsu province. No one was hurt. China has had a deadly summer. Floods, landslides and lighting have killed more than 700 people so far this summer. Last month, lightning killed a record 141 people.

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Every Dog Has His Day, Even in China

Picture by Cao Boyuan/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

Aug. 3, 2007 - Beijing, China - A Chinese fireman has a dog jump through flaming hoops during search-and-rescue training.

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Four of a kind

Picture by Brian Peterson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ ZUMA

Aug. 3, 2007 - Alexandria, Minnesota, U.S. - Identical quadruplets Sarah, Calli, Kendra and Megan Durst are now 14 years old, and they’re one of only 60 known sets of identical quadruplets in the world. They keep themselves busy in the summer playing soccer and spending time at their grandparents’ cabin on French Lake. “We think of ourselves as four sisters who happen to have been born on the same day,” Megan says. “We don’t think of ourselves as quadruplets.”

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Car 54, Where ARE You?

Picture by Wang Jiaowen/Color China Photos/ZUMA

Aug. 8, 2007 - Chengdu, Sichuan, China - Policemen stand in line during the police equipment distribution ceremony at the Jinjiang Police Station. Local government is distributing 47 police vehicles costing $500,000 and 98 computers costing $62,500 to Jinjiang Police Station. China is gradually improving police equipment nationwide.

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Minuteman Bush

Picture by Ron Lewis/San Mateo County Times/ZUMA

Aug. 10, 2007 - Belmont, California, U.S. - Art Bush, founder of the Redwood City chapter of the Golden Gate Minutemen, stands near an American flag at his home. Minutemen chapters around the U.S. lobby against government policy supporting illegal immigration.

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One, Two, Three

Picture by Chu Yang/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

Aug. 12, 2007 - Yantai, Shandong, China - Airport workers push a Shandong Airlines plane off a flooded runway at the Yantai Airport. Floodwaters are half a meter deep in some places.

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Tango, Baby!

Picture by Leo La Valle/EFE/ZUMA

Aug. 14, 2007 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Dancers compete at the 5th World Tango Festival.

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Catnap

Picture by Yi Fei/Color China Photos/ZUMA

Aug. 17, 2007 - Shanghai, China - Duo Zirong sleeps with her cats in her apartment. Over the last 12 years, Duo, her husband and her mother-in-law have spent most of their money to rescue and care for over 1,000 cats headed for the cooking pot. Cat meat is considered a delicacy in some parts of China. The family has relocated four times because of conflicts with neighbors and landlords.

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Fiddler on the Rock

Picture by Thomas Cordy/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA

Aug. 18, 2007 - Jupiter, Florida, U.S. - Bruce Benson is the new cantor at Temple Beth Am. Benson has been performing for 30 years and has recorded with jazz artist Kenny G.

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Valentine’s Day, the Chinese Way

Picture by Zhang Wenkui/Imaginechina/ZUMA

Aug. 19, 2007 - Chongqing, China - Chinese couples participate in a kissing contest as part of Qixi celebrations, the Chinese version of Valentine’s Day.

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Flying High

Picture by Liu Yongsheng

Aug. 21, 2007 - Beijing, China - Riders compete during the final round of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup at the Olympic BMX course. The race is one of many test events being held for the 2008 Olympic Games.

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IED Games

Picture by Ruaridh Stewart/ZUMA

Aug. 22, 2007 - Fort Irwin, California, U.S. - Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division participate in complex war games at the U.S. Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert before they deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan. Soldiers receive the most realistic training possible for defeating improvised explosive devices (IEDs), roadside bombs, vehicle bombs and even terrorists laden with suicide vests.

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Rainy Monday

Picture by Robert McKean/Detroit Free Press/ZUMA

Aug. 24, 2007 - St. Clair Shores, Michigan, U.S. - A series of storms ravage the Upper Midwest, flooding a westbound section of I-94 at Martin Road.

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CSI: Chile 1907

Picture by Ian Salas/EFE/ZUMA

Aug. 23, 2007 - Iquique, Chile - A volunteer moves one of more than 1,200 corpses found in a mass grave believed to contain the remains of saltpeter workers who were massacred by the military during a strike in 1907.

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Follow the Bouncing Ball

Picture by Alejandro Hernรกndez/EFE/ZUMA

Aug. 25, 2007 - Havana, Cuba - Cuban athlete Erick Hernรกndez sets a new Guinness World Record by bouncing a soccer ball on his head 350 times in one minute. The previous record was also his at 319.

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Red, White and Blue

Picture by Bruce R. Bennett/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA

Aug. 25, 2007 - West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. - Cousins Julian Nunez (left) and Zachary Nunez, both age 4, compete in the National Watermelon Board’s Watermelon Eating Contest at the fifth annual Our Kids World Family Fun Fest at the South Florida Fairgrounds Expo Center.

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DejA View

Picture by Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune/ZUMA

Aug. 25, 2007 - San Diego, California, U.S. - Pete Wilson, a former California governor and San Diego mayor, poses with a statue of himself on Horton Walk in downtown San Diego.

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Hot Day in the City

Picture by Emilio Naranja/EFE/ZUMA

Aug. 26, 2007 - Osaka, Japan - Runners pass through water misters to cool down during the men’s 20k at 11th IAAF World Athletics Championship.

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Party People in the House

Picture by Leonardo MuĂąoz/EFE/ZUMA

Aug. 26, 2007 - BogotĂĄ, Colombia - Revelers participate in the XXIX Caminata de la Solidaridad during the Carnival of Barranquilla.

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Rise Again

Picture by Amanda Voisard/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA

Aug. 26, 2007 - Port St. Lucie, Florida, U.S. - Jason Julme, 5, and his mother, Wuilda Julme, attend Sunday services at Hope Lutheran Church. This is the first day back for the congregation after the church was rebuilt following an arson fire in 2004.

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Burn, Baby, Burn

Picture by Gamma/Eyedea/ZUMA

Aug. 26, 2007 - Kalyvia, Attica, Greece - Firefighters evacuate more than two dozen villages threatened by towering walls of flames. An international force has rallied to battle the blaze. France has dispatched four water-bombing planes and 62 firefighters and Italy has sent two planes as part of what the European Union says is the largest ever offer of emergency assistance to a member state. Seven people have been charged with starting the raging forest fires that have claimed more than 60 lives and ravaged swaths of forest and farmland in Greece’s worst wildfire disaster in memory.

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Round and Round They Go

Picture by Emilio Naranja/EFE/ZUMA

Aug. 27, 2007 - Osaka, Japan - Runners compete in the final lap of the men’s 10,000 meters at the 11th IAAF World Athletics Championship.

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Ladies’ Room

Picture by Eric Slomanson/ZUMA

Aug. 31, 2007 - Black Rock Desert, Nevada, U.S.- A woman walks past a series of Porta Potties at Burning Man, the world’s largest Leave No Trace event. This year’s art theme, “the Green Man,” offers an opportunity to foster environmental awareness among the 48,000 attendees.

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Shadow Game

Picture by Victor Lerena/EFE/ZUMA

Sept. 29, 2007 - Madrid, Spain – A bull passes by the shadow of one of the young boys in the bullring at the San Sebastiån de los Reyes Plaza after the fourth running of the bulls fiesta in Madrid. The running of the bulls lasted about 100 seconds, and over 2,200 runners took part.

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I’m TiRed of Being Sexy

Picture by Servanne Sohier/UPPA/ZUMA

Aug. 29, 2007 - London, England, U.K. - CSS performs live at the Carling Academy Islington. CSS stands for Cansei de Ser Sexy, which is Portuguese for I’m tired of being sexy. This Brazilian band from São Paulo has an electro-rock sound, and their songs are sung in both English and Portuguese.

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Cutting the Cord

Picture by Zhou Chao/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

Sept. 3, 2007 - Wuhan, Hubei, China - The parents of Wuhan University freshmen accompany their children on the first day of school. The parents even sleep on mats laid out on the gymnasium floor! China’s rapid development is spurring record interest in a college education, and of the 9.5 million students sitting for the 2007 exams, only 5.7 million will achieve that dream. That’s about one out of every 230 people in China.

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Burning Man

Picture by Domenech Castello/EFE/ZUMA

Sept. 4, 2007 - Castellón, Spain - A Romanian man sets himself on fire outside the Government Sub Delegation offices to protest his family’s impoverished economic situation while living in Spain.

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Burning Gravel

Picture by Sutton Motorsports/ZUMA

Sept. 7, 2007 - Monza, Italy - Brazilian driver Felipe Massa’s Ferrari F2007 sprays gravel as he veers off the track during practice for Formula One World Championship Italian Grand Prix.

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Felix Hunger

Picture by Mario Lopez/EFE/ZUMA

Sept. 7, 2007 - Dakura, Nicaragua - Hurricane Felix, which roared ashore here more than a week ago, has left a trail of hunger and illness and the danger of social upheaval in what was already the worst-off part of the western hemisphere’s second-poorest country.

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I Am Woman

Picture by Jack Kurtz/ZUMA

Sept. 8, 2007 - Fort Defiance, Arizona, U.S. - A child waits to participate in the Grand Entry at the All Women’s Rodeo in the Dahozy’s Stampede Rodeo Arena on the Navajo Indian Reservation. It’s the first all women’s rodeo on the reservation.

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It Takes a Village

Picture by Sutton Motorsports/ZUMA

Sept. 9 2007 - Monza, Italy - British rookie Lewis Hamilton’s pit crew tends to his McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 during the Formula One World Championship Italian Grand Prix.

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The Art of Happiness

Picture by Andreu Dalmau/EFE/ZUMA

Sept. 10, 2007 - Barcelona, Spain - The Dalai Lama yawns as he readies to give a public talk on The Art of Happiness at a conference at the Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona.

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Needled

Picture by TPG/ZUMA

Sept. 10, 2007 - Kunming,Yunnan, China - Several needles are visible in this x-ray of Luo Cuifen’s abdomen. Luo, 29, has 26 needles embedded in her body. Relatives suspect Luo’s grandparents of driving the needles into her when she was just days old, as they wanted a grandson instead of a granddaughter. Many medical experts have gathered at Yunnan’s Richland International Hospital from around the world to debate the best way to remove the needles.

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LAX Remembers

Picture by Ringo Chiu/ZUMA

Sept. 11, 2007 - Los Angeles, California, U.S. - The Los Angeles Airport Police Honor Guard has a wreath-laying ceremony at the LAX Flag Court, where a bronze plaque bearing the names of all those who died on the four California-bound flights was dedicated on the first anniversary of 9/11.

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Bull Yoga

Picture by Abel Alonso/EFE/ZUMA

Sept. 11, 2007 - Salamanca, Spain - Matador Manolo Sรกnchez watches as the first bull of the day does a headstand during a bullfight.

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Never Forget

Picture by Bryan Smith/ZUMA

Sept. 11, 2007 - Manhattan, New York, U.S. - Construction worker James McCloud, 24, of Brooklyn, proudly displays his tattoos while standing at the edge of Ground Zero on the sixth anniversary of 9/11.

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Down but Not Lost

Picture by Benjamin Rusnak/ZUMA

Sept. 11, 2007 - Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua - Hurricane Felix survivor Thomas Corales, 82, has nothing left but a few clothes that he dug out of the wreckage that was his home. Hurricane Felix, a category five storm, shattered the remote villages that make up the community of Sandy Bay, Nicaragua..

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RED LETTER DAY

Picture by Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA

Sept., 11, 2007 - London, England, U.K. - Fashionable Regent Street on 9/11/07. One late partygoer rushes to a 9/11 memorial party.

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Water World

Picture by Ricardo Suarez/EFE/ZUMA

Sept. 14, 2007 - Valladolid, Spain - Throngs of people try to break the Guinness record for the world’s largest water gun fight.

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Holy, Holy Day

Picture by Altaf Zargar/ZUMA

Sept. 14, 2007 - Srinagar, Kashmir, India - Kashmiri Muslims perform prayers at the famous Jama Masjid mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan. Muslims around the world abstain from food, water and sex from sunrise to sunset during the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.

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Hot John

Picture by Jason Moore/ZUMA

Sept. 14, 2007 - Austin, Texas, U.S. - Two people are critically injured during the Austin City Limits Festival when a fire breaks out after a propane tank ignites.

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Standoff

Picture by Carl Kiilsgaard/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA

Sept. 17, 2007 - Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. - A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office helicopter circles the scene north of Indiantown Road on I-95 as a man with a shotgun hides in the bushes, causing police to shut down highways in both directions for several hours.

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Number Three Is in the Lead

Picture by Silver Young/EFE/ZUMA

Sept. 23. 2007 - Shanghai, China - The Chinese believe that children who crawl before learning to walk are preparing their brains to process information better. Baby crawling competitions are held to further this process.

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Which Came First, the Turtle or the Egg?

Picture by Jeffrey Arguedas/EFE/ZUMA

Sept. 24, 2007 - Ostional, Costa Rica - Locals harvest sea turtle eggs, which are considered aphrodisiacs in Latin America. Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles swim to this part of the country to lay their eggs. Scientists discovered that since is a limited space on the beach, the female turtles that arrive last destroy the eggs that were laid first. As a result, the Ostional government allows egg poaching during the first 36 hours after the sea turtles have arrived.

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Polar Bears’ Spring Break

Picture by James Ashe/eyevine/ZUMA

Sept. 24, 2007 - Bournemouth, England, U.K. - Protesting polar bears, fed up with the threat of extinction, turn up the heat by greeting delegates entering the Labour Party Conference just before British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s speech. The polar bears support “I Count,” the U.K.’s largest climate-change campaign.

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Save the World

Picture by Gamma/Eyedea/ZUMA

Sept. 26, 2007 - Manhattan, New York, U.S. - Afghan President Hamid Karzai attends the Clinton Global Initiative conference.

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Hamas Death March

Picture by Fady Adwan/ZUMA

Sept. 27, 2007 - Gaza City, Palestinian Territory - Palestinians carry the body of Mohammad Adwan, a member of the exclusive forces loyal to Hamas movement, prior to his funeral.

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BACKSTORY Photographer David Healey

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hat do you do when you learn your wife of over 30 years has been handed a death sentence called leukemia? If you are photojournalist David Healey, you pick up your cameras and begin documenting. Having documented his family from the very beginning, this just seems to be the natural thing to do. At the age of 60, Pam Healey should have been moving into the next phase of her life, becoming a grandmother.

Unfortunately, she only had that experience for a short while.

David Healey has captured on black-and-white film an amazing story of strength and love.

DT:Tell me a little about yourself.

David Healey: I started taking pictures in Vietnam, while I was in the infantry. It just seemed like a fascinating language to me, and everyone understands it. What I like most is documenting my own life and what takes place right in front of me…the people I meet, friends, enemies, just about anyone. Plus, my cats, I love my cats, too.

DT: How long have you been documenting your family?

DH: I started photographing Pam, my wife, before we even became lovers. We worked together for a while at an agency. We have been together for 31 years, and we have been photographing each other…I photographed the birth of my daughters, and it was fascinating to me. I spent a lot of time at home with the kids, and they became my project. I have photographed them from birth and through everything that has happened to them.

DT: Tell me about the hardest part, Pam’s story.

DH: It is hard to say…Just going through this, there are times when you just feel like you are falling apart. But it was just a continuation of things. It was very difficult. It wasn’t so much difficult documenting her, but it was a difficult thing to go through.

It took nine months for her to die of leukemia, and she suffered a great deal. I watched my daughters, and they were the heroes.

They were wonderful to her through this whole deal.

DT:What did Pam think about you documenting her death?

DH: She spent a lot of time writing in her journals. She wrote a lot of poetry and was documenting her life and was always supportive of my documenting her life, too.

DT:What effect did your grandson have on Pam? DH: Pam was close to death in April, May. Somehow she made it through. Her greatest concern was to see her grandchild being born. She was feeling pretty good during that time, then after she met him and had the thrill of playing with him for a while, she started to go downhill. Her organs started to fail, one after another. She went into a coma, and we got together for her last moments.We took her off of life support and just waited. It took about five hours for her to die.

(Continued from page 119) DT:What is next for you?

DH: I have been dealing with a shitload of paperwork, but I have gotten through most of that. I would like to finish my story on street musicians‌I would like to do a book of my family.

We have been kicking around a few titles. I am thinking about Diggabumba. It is a word I invented as a child that could mean whatever I want it to mean.

Leukemia Leukemia is a type of cancer that causes the bone marrow to produce abnormal white blood cells. Though these abnormal white blood cells may function normally at first, they may crowd out the normal platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells over time. Once this happens, symptoms including fever, night sweats, abdominal swelling, headache and swollen lymph nodes may appear. Treatment of leukemia depends upon the type of leukemia and the person’s age, symptoms and overall health, among other factors.

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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that 19,440 American women will be diagnosed with leukemia in 2007. Approximately 0.29% of American women will develop leukemia between their 50th and 70th birthdays, and only 50% of those women will still be alive five years after their leukemia diagnosis, according to the NCI.

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Pam and David Healey

David Healey was born in Tucson, Arizona, and began his photo career in the Army, while stationed in Vietnam. Upon returning to the States, he worked at the Porter Wagner Agency, where he met his future wife, Pam. Healey has documented the streets of New York City for Magnum and the gritty streets of Santa Monica, California, for ZUMA Press. Healey is also a master blackand-white printer, calling David Kennerly and Henry Diltz some of his clients. David and Pam’s twin daughters have been subjects of his photography for the past 21 years.

PAM’s SONG Megan Healey writes a note on her mother Pam after she passed away at UCLA Medical Center in Westwood. Pam’s wish was to be cremated when she died. Unfortunately, they would not allow paper notes to be cremated along with her.

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Sept. 13, 2007 - Belgorod, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, following a request from the premier, but asks him to stay on as acting head of the government until the State Duma votes in a new candidate. Putin nominates Viktor Zubkov, the head of the country’s financial watchdog, to replace Fradkov as the new prime minister. “I expect that these actions [changes in the government] will make people focus more closely on implementing their service tasks, and that the whole system of power and governance in Russia will function without interruption during elections in December 2007 and March 2008, and afterwards,” says Putin.

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