Category: Access & Censorship
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The Oil Spill Story Finally Hits Home
Link: Associated Press photographer Charlie Riedel’s up-close images of brown pelicans soaked in oil finally brought home the effects of the Gulf oil spill catastrophe last week. They showed scenes that photographers have had much difficulty documenting, not only because of the location of the spill, but because BP and government officials have worked to…
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Home Office reviews photography rights in anti-terror law rewrite – British Journal of Photography
Link: A new camcorder from Sony lets movie-makers use SLR lenses to shoot pro-level footage for just $2,000. The NEX-VG10 uses the same APS-C sensor as the NEX mirrorless line-up, and also uses their E lens-mount, Sony’s equivalent of the compact micro-four-thirds format. With an adapter, you can also use any of Sony’s Alpha mount…
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New Rule Blocks Press From Covering Spill
Obama admin bans press from filming BP oil spill areas in the Gulf CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses how the Obama administration is limiting access by the media to areas affected by the BP Macondo well spill. via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/WpJBsjKhRTo&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0 A new rule went into effect last Thursday that bars journalists, reporters and photographers from getting within 65 feet…
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NYPD Press Credential Rule Changes Include NPPA's Suggestions
Link: Here is part two of the interview with Mugur Vărzariu who embodies the definition of a compassionate photographer: “I only press the shutter release when I can help my subjects.”
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Commentary: For reporters, the rules at Guantanamo change daily | McClatchy
Link: Guantanamo’s Camp Justice is a place where you can sit at your laptop or by your phone only if there’s a member of the military within earshot. It’s a place where you can go to court only in the custody of a military public affairs officer. Inside, if there’s only one escort — this…
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AP will not distribute images of proposed Koran burning | dvafoto
Link: The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit British organization that is working with WikiLeaks on the documents.
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Thoughts of a Bohemian » Under the carpet
Link: Sports photography is big business and shows no sign of slowing down. Getty images is on the path to controlling every image that you will see coming out of a US sports competition, and everything around it. ( remember, Tiger Woods first public appearance ?)
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Picturing War's Wounded and Dead – NYTimes.com
Picturing War’s Wounded and Dead There is no telling how people will react to realistic images and written reports that show war for what it is. But such images do serve a purpose. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/picturing-wars-wounded-and-dead/ “For centuries pictures of the dead and wounded have been part and parcel of war communications. Often…
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The Transformation Of Pathology Into Pathos Or The Military Does What It Does And It Does It We « The Spinning Head
Link: What confuses me is the thought behind the video and comments: Michael Kamber is surprised that a system meticulously designed to censor the likes of him, is…..censoring him. Isn’t this precisely what this system is designed to do?
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Kuwait bans DSLR use by non-journalists | dvafoto
Link: I currently live in Moscow. It’s a huge metropolis. Living here you get used to people, speed, vanity, the subway… Do you know that the subway is a whole individual city of people inside Moscow? And when you come to any village in the north of Russia, like Kenozero, you meet the silence. There,…
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Egyptian army cracks down on photographers [update] – British Journal of Photography
Link: Ed Ou was an intern at The Times (“A Dozen Promising Photographers“) and is now a freelancer, represented by Reportage by Getty Images, shooting for The Times in Egypt. He has photographed in the Middle East, Africa and the former Soviet republics. James Estrin spoke with him by phone early Sunday morning and early…
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INSI Advisory – News crews in Egypt facing increasing threats to their safety
Link: News crews covering the violent clashes in Egypt are facing increased threats to their safety, amid reports that a growing number are being targeted by protesters loyal to President Hosni Mubarak, angry at the foreign media’s coverage of the situation in the country.
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Tribune photographer loses decision in appeals court
Link: The long-debated argument over First Amendment rights and media access were at the center of a federal appeals court decision this week, which ruled police had the right to handcuff an Oakland Tribune newspaper photographer and bar him from taking pictures of a freeway crash scene.
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Photographer, journalists deported from Yemen
Link: Yemeni authorities are cracking down on journalists and photographers as Marco Di Lauro, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, tells BJP he was detained and deported from the Middle-Eastern country
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Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Two Other NY Times Journalists Missing In Libya
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya The Times said Wednesday that editors were last in contact with the missing journalists on Tuesday morning. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/ The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter…
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Three more journalists missing in Libya, four held by Libyan government; four NYT reporters have been freed
Link: AFP journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt and Getty images photographer Joe Raedle have not been heard from since Saturday morning.
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Three More Missing Journalists Released By Libya
Three missing journalists have been released by the Libyan government in Tripoli and they’re exp
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My Lai massacre photographer admits he destroyed pictures
Link: This story’s a bit old, but it’s the first I’ve encountered it. Ron Haeberle, US Army photographer during the Vietnam War, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2009 that he took photos of soldiers in the act of killing during the My Lai massacre but destroyed the negatives.
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Federal Courts Worry Your Smartphone Might Be a Bomb
Federal Courts Worry Your Smartphone Might Be a Bomb Smartphones could offer journalists and the public an easy and cost-effective method to provide online updates of court proceedings — which is why it’s always been frustrating that many federal jurisdictions don’t allow the devices into courthouses. Now, thanks to a newly issued document, we know…
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Associated Press photographer found "unharmed" in Libya
Link: Altaf Qadri, an award-winning Associated Press photographer who had gone missing in Libya on Saturday, has been found “unharmed”