Category: Access & Censorship
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Senate Blocks Photographers from Shooting Delivery of Impeachment Articles
Senate Blocks Photographers from Shooting Delivery of Impeachment Articles The Senate has sparked outrage among photojournalists after revealing a new set of restrictions on journalists, including barring any photographer from via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/01/15/senate-blocks-photographers-from-shooting-delivery-of-impeachment-articles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The rules come after a months-long “standoff” between the authorities on Capitol Hill and The Standing Committee of Correspondents, which represents journalists…
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The E&P Pub: After Flap Over AP Photo — Military Bans Images of Casualties in War
Link: The new rule, contained in a Sept. 19 directive from the Combined Joint Task Force in Bagram, Afghanistan, simply states: “Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S. personnel killed in action.” Period.
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PDNPulse: Detroit Photojournalist: Police Erased My Pictures
Link: The photographer Mitch Epstein, thin and professorial with gray hair and glasses, does not exactly cut a menacing figure. When he ducks beneath the dark cloth of his 8-by-10 view camera, the words that come most readily to mind are late Victorian, not potentially violent.
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Committee to Protect Bloggers » Public call to leak photographic evidence of torture in Iraq and Afghanistan
Link: The U.S. has blocked the release of photos showing clear evidence that the United States is responsible for torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. We think someone with access to the photos should simply leak them on the web, saving tax payers a load of cash and letting people know just what it is our…
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Customs Officer Threatens Photographer «
Customs Officer Threatens Photographer Do the usual laws not apply to Customs and Border Protection officers? There’s one in Tampa who thinks so. When Jay Nolan, a Tampa Tribune photojournalist, arrived at the scene of a three-car… Link: https://boywithgrenade.org/2009/12/07/customs-officer-threatens-photographer/ When Jay Nolan, a Tampa Tribune photojournalist, arrived at the scene of a three-car crash today and took photos, he was detained…
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From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect | guardian.co.uk
From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect Casual shots of London’s Gherkin attract stop and search just days after police were reminded street photography is no offence via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/11/snapshot-special-branch-terror-suspect It felt like a minor terror alert. Four security guards were watching me, whispering into microphones on their…
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Flickr Begins Censoring Content In India | Thomas Hawk
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2009/12/flickr-begins-censoring-content-in-india.html
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Letters: A picture of privatised streets and plain-clothes police
Letters: A picture of privatised streets and plain-clothes police Letters: I was stopped and searched twice near London City airport – for watercolouring via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/18/cities-photography-police-painting-liberties I was stopped and searched twice near London City airport – for watercolouring! I was not even facing the airport. I was painting the Tate and Lyle sugar…
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Flying With Camera Gear Post 25 Dec, 2009
Link: It’s my guess that this is the new normal in air travel. Greater scrutiny, longer and slower lines, more hand inspections, and overall just a greater pain in the ass. No one would argue that we don’t need the security, and I’m sure that some very bright people within the TSA and the airlines…
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Happy Martin Luther King Day, I Wish Photos Were Allowed at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/01/happy-martin-luther-king-day-i-wish-photos-were-allowed-at-the-national-civil-rights-museum-in-memphis.html I was disappointed this morning to learn that the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis (which is housed in the motel building where Dr. King was assassinated at) that I was going to visit this morning does not allow photography.
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Huge turnout for street photography rights: 1854
Link: 1000 and close to 2000 photographers came together in Trafalgar Square
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Starbucks Tries Social Media on Flickr, Fails, Locks Down All Discussion Threads to Silence Their Critics | Thomas Hawk
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/01/starbucks-tries-social-media-on-flickr-fails-locks-down-all-discussion-threads-to-silence-their-critics.html The question about whether or not photography is or is not allowed in Starbucks stores still seems very much in the air, and from the request that photographers now check back with the group in the “months” ahead (after having this issue linger since September of last year)…
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Mall security guard accuses shopper of being a paedophile for photographing his own son Boing Boing
Link: Outside of the mall, Kevin was stopped by a police constable who had received a complaint from mall security that a suspicious potential paedophile had been taking pictures on its premises. The PC threatened to arrest Kevin “for creating a public disturbance” and ordered him to delete the photo of his son.
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Police in Bangladesh Close Photo Exhibit – Lens
Police in Bangladesh Close Photo Exhibit Shahidul Alam had hoped his exhibit on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh would provoke a reaction. As David Gonzalez reports, it did. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/behind-39/ Shahidul Alam had hoped his “Crossfire” exhibit on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh would “shock people out of their comfort zone’ and provoke a response.…
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No Handouts : CJR
No Handouts White House photographers bridle at restricted access via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/no_handouts.php The Obama administration has barred independent photographers from a wide variety of events both potentially controversial and anodyne, ranging from yesterday’s abortion order signing, to the president’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, to his retaking of the flubbed oath of office,…
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Police raid offices of JMU's paper, seize 900 photos | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Link: Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha L. Garst, armed with a search warrant and accompanied by the officers, showed up unannounced about 10:30 a.m., said Katie Thisdell, editor-in-chief of The Breeze. “She said if you don’t release all of them, we are prepared to take everything out of this office — all the computers, the cameras, documents,…
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Lantern photographer cuffed, detained
Link: When two cows got loose last Wednesday, Lantern photographer Alex Kotran hustled to his room in Lincoln Tower. He had heard about the commotion, grabbed his professional camera gear and ran to the athletic fields next to Lincoln Tower. Within two hours, Ohio State Police had caught the cows – and Kotran. He was…
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PDNPulse: LA Photographer Cleared of Criminal Charges
Link: The LAPD has still refused to return Jonas Lara’s camera equipment despite the judge’s order. When Lara went to the police station to retrieve his equipment the police were “really pissed off,” he says, and attempted to question him further about the February 2 incident.