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Feb 18, 2026, 9:25 PM

Bullies Target Brooklyn Juice Bar

It was hot, only June, but temps already in the 90s. I was in Brooklyn, heading to the Bedford Stuyvesant block party and ready for some serious street photography. However, first I needed the strength to actually make it...

Oct 11, 2025, 10:49 PM

‘Culture Workers’ Against Israel

Oh no, not him too, I said to myself, while bingeing on the HBO series The Night Of, a gritty tale of a Pakistani-American college kid in New York accused of murder after a one-night stand. He's Riz Ahmed,...

Sep 1, 2025, 7:42 AM

Zionists! Iraq?

Talking shop was fun. I’d finally found someone to convert video tapes I’d kept stuck in boxes for way too long. Most from the shed, those shot on NTSC, the recording format used here in the US, had been...

Apr 1, 2025, 12:12 AM

Hypocrites and Breeders

The United Nations says Israel is stopping the women of Gaza from reproducing. The three-person Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (plus East Jerusalem, and Israel) has accused Israel of targeting anything to do with maternity. Good...

Oct 26, 2024, 10:28 PM

It was a second and telling. I could join her lane. I wouldn't be sitting like a grump in a vinyl chair, passive, while others swam, some hogging a lane, lifeguards not doubling us up. Her gesture was generous,...

Sep 28, 2024, 3:31 PM

Indifference etc.

I thought they'd left and I could continue forgetting them. They were friends, a couple from Cairo living in the US to improve their lives. Well-educated, both with master's degrees, they'd come to say goodbye before heading to another...

Aug 3, 2024, 4:06 PM

Abortion: Whose body is it?

Two oldsters squared off and squabbled over women's bodies. A septuagenarian and an octogenarian quarreled about control but it wouldn't have made a difference if 20 or 30-year-olds were at it. They were men, making the scene still more...

Jun 29, 2024, 1:17 AM

I caught her clip and was taken aback. From a Zoom meet of women's rights advocates against genocide, a Palestinian film director I'd worked, wined and dined with, described Gaza now although not there. I found out the following. This...

May 28, 2024, 8:00 AM

Getting a Winning Shot

Photographer Kevin Carter watched the vulture and the starving child crouched in the sand. A freelancer from South Africa, Carter was in Sudan to film the 1993 famine. When he got a good angle, bird in the background, child...

Mar 25, 2024, 3:22 AM

The Oscars Again!

They jumped for joy and I nearly did too. Godzilla Minus One had just won an Oscar for best visual effects and the creative team almost danced to the stage. This contrasted big time to my other fave of...

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About Me

Donna Schatz is a photographer, documentary producer and former TV camerawoman who has worked in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon as well as Bosnia and the US.