Fight for Your Right: Resources for Photographers Covering Protests
There are several resources available for photographers who encounter trouble with the law. Here are just a few
Category: Access & Censorship
2012 London Olympics: ridiculous photography and social media restrictions
Cops can be sued for arresting people who record them in public – new law in Connecticut
Vogue’s flattering profile on Assad’s wife disappears from Web
Although the Vogue piece didn’t mention it, the photos that accompanied the article — of Asma al-Assad, her husband and two of their children at home in Damascus — were facilitated by an American public-relations firm working for the Syrian government. The firm, Brown Lloyd James, was paid $25,000 to set up a photo session with James Nachtwey, the famed war photographer who shot the pictures for Vogue.
Olympics’ security guards “trained to deter people from taking photographs”
Link: British Journal of Photography
A manager for G4S, a security firm, has said that security guards working to protect the Olympic site in London are trained to deter people from taking photographs, it has been claimed
LA Times delayed publication of Afghan corpse photos at Pentagon’s request
When we made the decision to publish, the Pentagon asked us to wait 24 additional hours to protect troops depicted in the photographs. We agreed to push back our publication date until the Pentagon told us they had taken the necessary precautions. In fact, we waited more than 72 hours after their request.
Olympic Games will be live streamed liberally, but there are strict rules for photography, social media
The guards refused to let Walker leave immediately. The incident, he writes, ended after the security guards “called police, who also asked to see the video footage, citing the Terrorism Act. The reporter was allowed to leave after neither he nor the police could properly operate the camera to replay the footage.”
Photojournalist’s Federal Lawsuit Defends Right To Record Police
Today a federal civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of Philip Datz in the Eastern District of the U.S. District Court that challenges Suffolk County’s policy and practice of obstructing the First Amendment right of the press and the public to record and gather the news about police activity in public places.
Does Homeland Security Target Journalists for Search and Seizure?
Agents often wait for documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras at the door as she disembarks from international flights. Poitras, a US citizen, has been interrogated for hours, had her personal belongings and reporter’s notebooks seized, held and copied, and her laptop, phone and other devices searched and copied
Yesterday’s AP Photo of Afghan Suicide Bombing: Revisiting the Censorship of Images of Wounded American Soldiers
If there is anything that is shocking to me about the subject at this point, it’s that the visual censorship of these wars has been so absolute that many today actually fail to understand why such scenes would even be important or relevant to see.