Category: Access & Censorship
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PDNPulse: New Details on Unreleased Prisoner Abuse Photos
PDNPulse: New Details on Unreleased Prisoner Abuse Photos
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Where are the images of horror from Sri Lanka?
Don McCullin says: Pictures of the beach near Mullaitivu, the last outpost of Tamil Tiger resistance in Sri Lanka, would have been among the greatest visual images of what war does to people. They would have been, if anybody had been there to take them. via TOAB
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Diary of a UK journalist being hassled by goons at the Bilderberg conference
Boing Boing says: “Charlie Skelton, reporting for the Guardian from outside the apparent location of this year’s Bilderberg Conference [ed: s33kr1t high-powered meeting of financial leaders and politicos], has been intimidated out of the area and is still being hassled on the Athens subway – series of reports and photos of the goons, who are…
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NYPD directive on the legality of public photography to print and carry
Boing Boing says: Here’s a scan of the NYPD Operations Order “Investigation of Individuals Engaged In Suspicious Photography and Video Surveillance,” a document issued last month by the Department telling cops in no uncertain terms to stop hassling photographers who shoot in public places, and to get a warrant before searching a camera
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Fake DHS "photography license" for fake no-photos laws
Matthew Williams says: In the event you’re stopped by overzealous law enforcement or security officials attempting to enforce fictitious laws, I’ve designed these fictitious and official-looking Photographer’s Licenses. Via BoingBoing
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Obama Reverses Position on Release of Photos of Detainee Abuse
washingtonpost.com says: In announcing the shift today, the White House said in a statement that Obama “strongly believes that the release of these photos, particularly at this time, would only serve the purpose of inflaming the theaters of war, jeopardizing US forces, and making our job more difficult in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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Video: Foreign journalist blocked from reporting in Sichuan Province, China
dvafoto says: The Financial Times has video of correspondent Jamil Anderlini being stopped from reporting in Sichuan Province, China, in advance of today’s 1-year anniversary of the tragic earthquake that hit the province.
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PDNPulse: Lesson: Don't Attack a Newspaper Photographer
PDNPulse says: New York State Sen. Kevin Parker was arrested for allegedly attacking New York Post photographer William C. Lopez
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The Architectural Photographer as Terrorist « Prison Photography
Prison Photography says: Denison goes on to explain that the officers told him he couldn’t photograph. He told them he could and they acquiesced with the retort “For now.” Shortly before leaving Denison crossed the road to take a picture of an architectural detail. At this point two officers ran down the street, commanding him…
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SF Muni’s Crappy Response to Photographer Harassment
Thomas Hawk says: Photography is not a crime and cops who treat it like it is should be disciplined.
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What Is Muni’s Photography Policy??
WHAT IM SEEING dot com says: Before I could get the 1st shot off, Fare Inspector #32 started marching towards me, hands in the air, yelling at me to “STOP TAKING PICTURES!!” So I put away camera, walked towards him and answered his statement with a question. I asked him if he could site me…
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Courtney B. Wilson, Your Photo Policy at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum Sucks
Thomas Hawk says: It seems to me that this musuem’s policy is simply another example of a museum who lets some power hungry curator draft some totally daft policy that is both unenforceable and in direct conflict with it’s mission statement.
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Photographers, Press and the Guardian vs. UK Law « Prison Photography
From Prison Photography: Not once did I envisage the current situation whereby the act of photography could bring about the threat of detention and imprisonment. Such impingement on basic rights of expression has been known in some of the dictatorial and despotic regimes of modern history … but not so much in the West, right?…
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Police delete London tourists' photos 'to prevent terrorism'
From guardian.co.uk: Austrian tourist who photographed bus and Tube stations says ‘nasty incident’ has put him off returning to London Check it out here. via BoingBoing.
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Who Started The War on Photography? « Photofocus
From Photofocus: Several freelancers as well as some credentialed photojournalists were jailed for days without charge or trial in the days immediately after September 11. New York Mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani, seemed to declare war on photographers. He had the police block off more than a square mile surrounding the World Trade Center,…
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Reporter, VA clash over patient interview – CNN.com
From Reporter, VA clash over patient interview – CNN.com: The “cops” demanded that he turn over his tape, Schultz said. The public affairs officer, angered when another veteran offered Schultz his phone number, demanded that Schultz hand over all his equipment or “I’m going to get ugly,” he said. Check it out here.
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Street photography and the law :: Photocritic photography blog
From Street photography and the law :: Photocritic photography blog: The law can essentially be summed up like this: 1. You can take a picture of anything you see – especially when you are in public. Check it out here.
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Press Allowed To Cover Return of Dead Soldiers
From Press Allowed To Cover Return of Dead Soldiers | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source: For the first time in nearly 20 years, the media was permitted to witness a casket containing the body of a dead soldier arrive on U.S. soil. What do you think? Check it out here.