A photographer is suing American Airlines (AA) following a bomb scare that allegedly began when another passenger mistook the man's vintage camera equipment for an explosive device during a flight.
Award-winning photographer Michelle Frankfurter is taking to social media to share a horror story involving her precious camera equipment. She says American Airlines lost her cameras equipment worth $13,000.
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Michelle Frankfurter is a documentary photographer from Takoma Park, MD. Before settling in the Washington, DC area, Frankfurter spent three years living in Nicaragua where she worked as a stringer for the British news agency, Reuters and with the human rights organization Witness For Peace documenting the effects of the contra war on civilians.
Since 2000, Frankfurter has concentrated on the border region between the United States and Mexico, and on themes of migration.