Category: Access & Censorship
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ZORIAH: Embed Termination – Statement About My Situation in Iraq
Photo by Zoriah After the post was online, I was told that the Marine Corps would not allow even the pants or shoes of a injured or killed Marine to be depicted in images. This was a rule I had never been told or even heard of. I refused to remove the blog post. It…
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Pretend cops bully videographer, videographer wins – Boing Boing
Watch the London community support officers (they’re not real cops, but deputied volunteers who fancy themselves real ones) as they confront a videographer who has the temerity to take footage of a public street. Check it out here.
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Judge Throws the Book at Photographer
It’s finally over … or is it? In an unfortunate turn of events, it looks like Carlos Miller, the Miami photographer and journalist who was arrested last year while photographing police, has been sentenced to one year probation, 100 hours of community service, anger management class and a $540.50 court cost payment. Interestingly enough, a…
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Runnin' Scared: The NYPD Harasses a Photographer at Coney Island by Sean Gardiner
Manhattan commercial photographer Simon Lund loves Coney Island so much that he treks out there 10 to 20 times each summer to take pictures. But it was only on his latest venture that Lund encountered something he’d never experienced in all his trips there over the years: an unwanted photo editor from the NYPD. As…
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Olympian's Tony Overman Arrested While Taking Photos
Tony Overman, a photographer for The Olympian in Olympia, Wash., and past president of the National Press Photographers Association, was arrested and injured Friday while working to cover a fire. He was charged with suspicion of simple assault of a police detective and will be arraigned June 19, his paper reports. Check it out here.
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Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat?
What is it with photographers these days? Are they really all terrorists, or does everyone just think they are? Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We’ve been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones.…
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Seattle Police Department issues new policy regarding photographers
It took an unlawful arrest and an embarrasing $8,000 settlement, but the Seattle Police Department has issued a new policy clarifying that citizens are within their rights to document police activity, as long as they are not interfering with the investigation. Check it out here.
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Photographer's $20billion penalty
A Reuters photographer working in Zimbabwe has been fined 20 billion Zimbabwe dollars for contravening the country’s broadcasting act reports Zimbabwejournalists.com. Howard Burditt was also sentenced to two months in prison, suspended for five years on the condition he did not repeat the offence. Check it out here.
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TV News Photographer Keeps Camera Rolling During Scuffle With Police Officer
“I’m not putting the camera down until (inaudible).” Check it out here.
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Photo Attorney: Photography Is/Not Allowed? – 7
Fox 5 TV station in Washington DC interviewed Joel Lawson yesterday about harassment of photographers at Union Station. While an Amtrak spokesperson was explaining that photography is allowed in Union Station, a security guard interrupted to tell the journalist to stop filming the interview Check it out here.
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Journalist's Journey To Iraq
By Robert Scheer, Indianapolis Star Visuals Dept In covering our guys in Iraq, we heard and saw a lot of things that they didn’t want us to publish — such as how fast they drive, where the commander generally is on a convoy. The key thing is to know what photo or story might jeopardize…
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Video On The Right To Photograph In U.K.
Current TV brings us this short and interesting documentary about the confusion over the right to photograph in public places in the U.K.: Check it out here.
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Photographer risks losing eye after being hit by policeman during protest
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the way a policeman on horseback struck photographer Víctor Salas several times with a metal riding crop while he was covering a protest yesterday in Valparaíso, a city to the west of Santiago. Salas, who works for the Spanish news agency EFE, has been hospitalised and risks using the…
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Judge at R.Kelly Trial Boots 'Chi Tribune' Sketch Artist
The judge in R&B singer R. Kelly’s child pornography trial has ejected a newspaper’s sketch artist from the courtroom. Judge Vincent Gaughan says the artist for the Chicago Tribune violated the strict code of conduct he’s established for the courtroom by creating images of jurors for publication. Check it out here.
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RANGERS SET TO STRIKE RANCH, WANT MEDIA TO GO AWAY FIRST
At this hour there are at least 6 media trucks parked just outside the gates of the ranch. Around 2 this afternoon, the Texas Rangers were set to strike, and aborted the strike once they saw the trucks. They then ordered sheriff Doran to get the media trucks away from the ranch. Everyone inside the…
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Photographers stand up for your rights in LA, June 1 – Boing Boing
One June 1, photographers throughout Los Angeles will gather at the Hollywood and Highland Metro Station to peacefully protest against the unnecessary treatment they have received from security guards (particularly the white shirts), LAPD, and LASD while photographing in public places, and on the Metro. Check it out here.
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Jury Clears Photographer Who Refused to Stop Photographing an Arrest
I was pleased today to see an article about photographer Nick Evans being cleared by a Galveston jury of misdemeanor charges of interfering with police while photographing an arrest at a Mardi Gras celebration in 2007. While I’m amazed that any prosecutor would actually take this kind of a case to trial (in this case…
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"Two FBI agents just showed up at my door for taking photos in the Port of Los Angeles" – Boing Boing
I’m a professional stock photographer, and just this morning, I was greeted by two FBI antiterrorism agents who wanted to question me regarding shooting in the Port of Los Angeles two weeks ago. When I was down there, a private security guard in a pickup truck chased me out of the area and onto the…
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Taking pictures on LA's Red Line violates the "9/11 Law" – Boing Boing
Keith tried to take a picture on the Red Line in LA, and was told that he was breaking the “9/11 Law” by a metro worker who swore at him and threatened him with arrest when he asked what the “9/11 Law” was. Check it out here.
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Almost Arrested for Taking Photos at Union Station
Meanwhile, the Gigapan continued to take photos. They’d ruined the panorama, of course; the first guard got in front of the camera at one point and obstructed the view. They reiterated that we were going to be arrested, so I finally tried to shut off the camera. But the damn thing wouldn’t stop taking pictures.…