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19/06/2024

In respect to Juneteenth: The Market House built in 1838, in the center of Fayetteville, NC has had a contentious history. Built as a town hall and general market place in the style of similar buildings in the British Isles. Served as trading space for many goods. Slave sales according to a Duke University study were infrequent, but never doubted as slaves were sold to satisfy debts or liquidations meted out by the Town Hall/Magistrate on the second floor. According to Kristin Johnson, slave sales were far more than occasional liquidations of debt. And the lynching of Archie Beebe is also part of the history. The casualness of slave marketing as a trading mechanism makes the site historic in its "casualness." Various plans have been put forth including the removal of the classic building as well as transforming it to an educational/cultural Black Lives Do Matter space. https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/columns/2024/02/20/fayetteville-nc-controversial-market-house-whats-next/72526608007/

Kristin Johnson's interview: https://www.wunc.org/race-demographics/2022-03-08/debate-fayetteville-market-house-brick-mortar-tested-observer-history

Atkin photos from 2007.

13/06/2024

13/06/2024

Thanks to the staff of Battleship New Jersey, I was invited to photograph the awesome behemoth while still in dry dock at Philly Ship Repair. Walking in a crouch directly under her keel was surreal.

28/04/2024

Figured I should post the most important photograph in my view: the transfer of power from the former Captain of the Port (Sector NY) Zeita Merchant (Newly "frocked" to Rear Admiral) to the newly designated COTP Sector NY, Jonathan Andrechik. The Blue Baton is passed, at Broadway's HAMILTON stage April 22, 2024, NYC. (Hamilton created the initial iteration (Revenue Cutters) of the USCG. Thank you Mr. Hamilton.

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24/04/2024

An amazing morning!!Semper Paratus!!A new Capt of the NY/NJ port Jonathan Andrechik & the first African-American Female Admiral in USCG history!!

28/03/2024

I love ships. Full Stop. But this country fails to support & venerate our history on a national level to celebrate ships that are not warships. It’s simply & sadly not in our National Maritime DNA.

11/01/2024

For some time I've sought a phrase that explains the vast and grand sense of the maritime world. In Milton Friedman's economic class we learned dry phrases such as marginal utility, Cap Ex and the global supply chain. Some pundits have said global shipping is the glue that ties the world together. Yes, true but to high school students who might consider a career in the maritime world, we need a phrase that embodies more: so it struck me: "Shipping is the World's Greatest Orchestra." ® Tried it out on some teenagers and they immediately related, they got it. A follow up thought: As I am devoted to producing compelling images:

Is your media amped to play emphatically in the maritime symphony?

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02/01/2024

When we talk about the "Global Supply Chain" the words seem to have escaped from a lackluster economics class discussing marginal utility. There is nothing lackluster about our industry. Nothing boring. Nothing marginal. With tens of thousands of dedicated professionals at sea and shoreside choreographing ships, cargoes, dreams and visions around the world, it is a global crescendo of fervor, future thinking founded on legacy. It is accomplishment "all ahead full." Shipping's powerful orchestration is indeed: The Worlds Greatest Symphony.

©2024 Jonathan Atkin.

01/01/2024

How that 2024 is a stellar year

27/12/2023

Are you passionate about championing the maritime world? It’s said by other’s Jonathan’s passion is visually visceral! Enjoy the selection of The Shipshooter bespoke aerials produced with tailored “choreography” as a navigational plan for the best possible images for my esteemed clients. Thanks to assistance from aviation and more.

02/12/2023

Hello from The 43rd Work Boat Show & Marine Money Conference & my culinary adventures at , , , , , ,

11/11/2023

In honor of all who serve & have done so! Thank you. The shipshooter.

08/10/2023

Recent pix for Crystal Cruises: Serenity Arrives NYC Sept 27, 2023. And more!

01/09/2023

A courageous sailor and inspirational guiding light has passed. Capt. Bill was a friend. First met him during a photo assignment for OFFSHORE MAGAZINE, about the Replica Ship Amistad. I'm sad.

28/08/2023

My heart goes out to the victims in Jacksonville, Florida of the recent racist motivated murder. Personally it is impossible to assign meaning to all the racist motivated murders, whether in Jacksonville or recently of O'Shae Sibley in Brooklyn or the many many others, whether one or mass slaughter.

The convergence of a place beginning wth "Jackson," with the murder of Wharlest Jackson is happenstance. As we honor MLK Jr, for the March on Washington 60 years ago, I am obligated to post my first front page photo of my career, at age 18 while in high school, illustrating the 1967 car bomb murder of Wharlest Jackson, an NAACP officer in Natchez, Ms.

Originally assigned as a budding young photographer under the Daily News managing editor Nick Blatchford, my innocuous weather photo of Washington DC's early spring initially to be relegated to page 30 something. Yet news about Mr. Jackson's murder prompted editors to move it to the front page with the dead tree and rope, as a lynching metaphor accompanying the tabloid headline. The murder; never solved though well understood members of a local K*K group were responsible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Wharlest_Jackson

I am merely a photographer, standing as witness, with gratitude and accountability to the meaning of that image 56 years ago.

27/08/2023

BARBIE & Pink? Sure, join the world.

14/04/2023

The new 2023 built dual fuel ZIM ship! Named after shipping magnate, philanthropist, visionary, art collector Sammy Ofer.

05/06/2022

Happy Platinum Jubilee

25/04/2022

The transit of the former SI FB JFK as seen from my helo with my team, Pablo Barrera (video) & my long time pilot Mike Renz.