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Photographer Killed After TV News Helicopter Crashes in New Jersey

Dec 20, 2023 By Admin in Photography

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A photographer and pilot were killed after a local TV news helicopter crashed in New Jersey on Tuesday night.

The pilot and news photographer were on board ABC Action News‘ Chopper 6 when it crashed in a wooded area in Wharton State Forest near Hammonton, New Jersey just after 20:00 on Tuesday.

They were the only people aboard the 7-seat aircraft and were returning from an assignment at the Jersey Shore.

New Jersey state police found the wreckage deep in the forest, which spans 122,880 acres, just after midnight off Mulica River road. The site was reportedly very difficult to access due to its location in the woods.

According to ABC Action News, the television station is not releasing the names of the crew members who died as their family members are still being notified about the crash.

However, the local TV News outlet says the pair have a long history with our station and have been working as part of the ABC Action News team for years.

Cause of Crash is Unknown

It’s still unclear what caused the crash. However, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have been notified and are investigating the cause of the crash.

ABC Action News uses the helicopter for many different beats, covering weather, traffic, and news stories.

“Chopper 6 and those who fly in it play an integral role in our news-gathering operation, accessing areas that are difficult to reach by ground, giving us everything from weather and beauty shots, traffic backups, and important information about news of the day,” ABC Action News writes.

The helicopter was a 2013 American Eurocopter AS-350A-STAR the WPVI leased through North Carolina-based US Helicopters Inc. It was last seen airborne flying over the state forest at 20:03 according to FlightAware.

Colleagues and fellow reporters paid tribute to the photographer and pilot after it emerged they had died in the crash.

Two people who helped bring you the news every day lost their lives while on the job last night. Chopper 6 crashed in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.
All of us at 6abc want to express our deepest condolences to their family and friends. https://t.co/jjmAKiLL35

— Matt O’Donnell (@matt_odonnell) December 20, 2023

“Two people who helped bring you the news every day lost their lives while on the job last night,” ABC Action News news anchor Matt O’Donnell writes on X (formerly known as Twitter).

“All of us at 6abc want to express our deepest condolences to their family and friends.”

Action News Helicopter Crashes in New Jersey, Killing Two

Dec 20, 2023 By Admin in Photography

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Action News’ helicopter Chopper 6 crashed into a wooded area of Burlington County, New Jersey, shortly after 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday night, killing the pilot and an on-board photographer from the Action News team.

The exact cause of the crash remains unknown and the names of the victims have not yet been released as families wait to be notified. The ABC station said of the crash victims: “They have a long history with our station and have been working as part of the Action News team for years.”

The crash site is approximately 40 miles southeast of Philadelphia and is difficult to access due to heavy foliage. The pilot and photographer are believed to have been returning from an assignment on the Jersey Shore.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be investigating the cause of the crash.

Fatalities due to helicopter crashes are rare. Per the FAA, over the past five years, there have been 0.76 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours in the U.S. Nevertheless, the risk of dying in a helicopter flight or non-commercial plane is still much higher than the risk of dying in a crash on a commercial flight, which averaged 0.00 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours in 2021. In 2022, meanwhile, studies showed that private planes are 200 times more deadly.

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News helicopter crashes in New Jersey, killing pilot and photographer

Dec 20, 2023 By Admin in Photography

A Philadelphia television station says a news helicopter has crashed in New Jersey, killing both the pilot and photographer on board.

WPVI-TV says a pilot and photographer from its news team were in the helicopter when it went down about 8 p.m. Tuesday in Burlington County’s Washington Township.

The helicopter was returning from an assignment at the Jersey Shore when it crashed in the woods.

The station says New Jersey State Police troopers were able to locate the crash site, which is difficult to access.

The station says it’s unclear what caused the crash.

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One Photographer’s Erotic Exploration of Bed and the Female Form

Dec 20, 2023 By Admin in Photography

In his bodily new series, created in the Hotel d’Amour in Paris, Vincent Ferrané explores the social and metaphorical space of the bed

December 20, 2023

Embedded, the latest series by photographer Vincent Ferrané, wants us to think outside the box. Initially created during an artistic residence at the Hotel d’Amour in Paris, he collaborated with the performer Pauline Lavogez to create a ‘mosaic’ of images that show her in, on, and around a bed. “The idea was to explore the rectangular space of a bed in a way that is limited and very open, and the social and metaphorical body that evolves in this space,” Ferrané tells AnOther. The pair came up with ideas using something approximate to automatic writing, establishing an inventory of bed-adjacent activities: scrolling, binging, working, crying, trying to sleep, making phone calls, painting your nails, taking selfies, waiting for an answer, escaping. The list goes on.

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Produced over five days in a bedroom of Hotel d’Amour, the pair were inspired by other artists who had used hotels in their work: Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman. However, covering the walls with a white sheet, any signifier of hôtelerie is concealed. “We wanted to insist on a performative, arid element of the bed – like a white page … a microcosm where ordinary, clichéd representations of intimacy slide gently towards something more enigmatic.” Lavogez offers strange, unreadable poses. “I had this idea of not knowing if you are a prisoner or if you are a guard or a jailer,” says Ferrané. This is most clearly shown in the series’s props. In one shot, a resistance band is criss-crossed around Lavogez’s legs (a symbol of strength or constraint?) Elsewhere, a bed sheet is tented in the air by her body like a hut, in another it drapes over her like the costume of a ghost. A T-shirt being taken off? Eroticism and asphyxiation. Ferrané’s formal decisions – shooting in black and white, and cropping Lavogez’s body (her face is scarcely pictured) – add to a sense of abstraction. At times the images seem more aptly read as landscapes with rolling flesh, and sheets draped in a valley.

Embedded by Vincent Ferrané — Photography by Vincent Ferrané

Yet despite the sensations of solitude and anguish – Francis Bacon, Paula Rego and Edward Hopper’s shadows were all other references – in the aller-retour between photographer and subject, Embedded retains a sense of levity. “The idea was not to create frozen images, but to allow us to really play, to make the movements evolve, to change position and point of view, to create unique images out of this back-and-forth between Pauline and myself,” says Ferrané. In the penultimate image, Lavogez is dressed in black, contorted. In the final image, the same clothes are neatly arranged on the bed, and our performer has disappeared from view.

Find out more about the series here.

News helicopter crashes in New Jersey forest, killing pilot and photographer

Dec 20, 2023 By Admin in Photography

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A news helicopter has crashed in a New Jersey forest, killing both the pilot and photographer on board, the television station said.

“A pilot and a photographer from our news team were in the helicopter when it went down while returning from an assignment at the Jersey Shore” on Tuesday night, WPVI-TV in Philadelphia reported. “Both crew members were killed.”

The station did not release their names pending notification of family members.

“Our hearts are just broken for these men. They’re broken for their families,” reporter Katherine Scott said Wednesday morning, reporting from near the scene of the crash.

The crash happened sometime after 8 p.m. in Wharton State Forest in Hammonton, New Jersey, the station said. The area is part of the New Jersey Pinelands, a million-acre wilderness area that stretches across more than seven counties and features dense woods, rivers and rare plant species.

Video taken from a WTXF-TV helicopter over the wreckage site showed scattered debris, with some pieces on fire or smoking, as authorities searched with flashlights in the darkness.

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.

New Jersey State Park Police found the wreckage early Wednesday, just over an hour after receiving a call that a helicopter was missing, said George Fedorczyk, chief of the department. An official with the Federal Aviation Administration arrived shortly after 3 a.m.

“Due to the remote location of the scene and the limited visibility, it was determined at that point that the investigation would be suspended until sometime after daybreak,” Fedorczyk said at a morning news conference. “Know that our thoughts are with the pilots, their families and the media community.”

He said the National Transportation Safety Board was taking over the investigation and sending officials to the site.

WPVI-TV reported that it leases the helicopter from U.S. Helicopters Inc., which is based in North Carolina. A spokesperson said company officials were not prepared to comment Wednesday morning.

Emails seeking comment were sent Wednesday to New Jersey State Police, the New Jersey State Park Police and the FAA.

There have been other deadly helicopter crashes involving staff from television stations in the United States. Among them was a July 2007 crash, when two helicopters from KNXV-TV and KTVK-TV collided over Phoenix while covering a police chase. Four people — both pilots and two photographers — were killed.

News helicopter crashes in New Jersey forest, killing pilot and photographer, TV station says

Dec 20, 2023 By Admin in Photography

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A news helicopter has crashed in a forest in New Jersey, killing both the pilot and photographer on board, the television station said.

“A pilot and a photographer from our news team were in the helicopter when it went down while returning from an assignment at the Jersey Shore” on Tuesday night, WPVI-TV in Philadelphia reported. “Both crew members were killed.”

The station did not release their names pending notification of family members.

“Our hearts are just broken for these men. They’re broken for their families,” reporter Katherine Scott said Wednesday morning, reporting from near the scene of the crash.

The crash happened sometime after 8 p.m. in woods in Wharton State Forest, in Hammonton, New Jersey, the station said.

Video taken from a WTXF-TV helicopter over the wreckage site showed scattered debris, with some pieces on fire or smoking, as authorities searched with flashlights in the darkness.

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.

New Jersey State Park Police found the wreckage early Wednesday, just over an hour after receiving a call that a helicopter was missing, said George Fedorczyk, chief of the department. An official with the Federal Aviation Administration arrived shortly after 3 a.m.

“Due to the remote location of the scene and the limited visibility, it was determined at that point that the investigation would be suspended until sometime after daybreak,” Fedorczyk said at a morning news conference. “Know that our thoughts are with the pilots, their families and the media community.”

He said the National Transportation Safety Board was taking over the investigation and sending officials to the site.

WPVI-TV reported that it leases the helicopter from U.S. Helicopters Inc., which is based in North Carolina. A spokesperson said company officials were not prepared to comment Wednesday morning.

Emails seeking comment were sent Wednesday to New Jersey State Police, the New Jersey State Park Police and the FAA.