Jesús Medina, who was held without a trial for 16 months, and seven others have been released.
via BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51018787
A Venezuelan photojournalist who was kept in a military prison without a trial for 16 months has been released, activists say.
A female Chilean photojournalists murder is remains unsolved and has many free press activists demanding answers to unanswered questions.
via therealistwoman: https://therealistwoman.com/female-chilean-photojournalists-murder-still-unsolved/
Albertina Martinez had been covering the violence against anti-government protesters on November 19th of last year when on November 21st, the 38 year-old was found in her Santiago apartment beaten and stabbed to death.
South African photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed has returned to the country after being held captive for three years in Syria.
Mohamed was kidnapped by the Islamic State group in 2017 in Syria, where he had traveled to photograph the conflict there.
Threats of ‘retribution,’ more accusations of ‘fake news’ and the end of the White House briefing made 2019 the darkest yet for journalists in the Trump era.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/business/media/trump-media-2019.html
Threats of ‘retribution,’ more accusations of ‘fake news’ and the end of the White House briefing made 2019 the darkest yet for journalists in the Trump era.
Shahidul Alam, the acclaimed Bangladeshi photojournalist and activist, pushes against the limits of his medium to cast light on what is suppressed or has vanished.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/arts/design/shahidul-alam-rubin-museum.html
Like Woody Guthrie, who called his guitar an anti-fascist weapon, the Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam has used his camera for 35 years as a tool to advance social justice. He began by documenting street protests in Dhaka, the capital, in the mid-80s, making pictures in the tradition of the Magnum photographers, especially Henri Cartier-Bresson. But over time, he pushed against the natural constraints of a medium that registers what is seen, so that he might illuminate what is suppressed or has vanished.
Reuters photographer Joshua Roberts was hounded out of a Congressional hearing for doing his job. How will the incident impact other photographers?
After Republican Congressmen called out Reuters photographer Joshua Roberts last week for photographing items on the desk of a House Judiciary Committee member, Twitter trolls erupted in anger and Roberts ended up leaving the hearing “voluntarily.” As it turned out, Roberts had broken no rules, and was just doing his job within ethical bounds, according to several of his colleagues.
Two years after photojournalist Shiraaz Mohambed was kidnapped while on assignment in Syria, he is now a free man, says Gift of The Givers.
Durban – Two years after photojournalist Shiraaz Mohambed was kidnapped while on assignment in Syria, he is now a free man. This is according to Imtiaz Sooliman of the Gift of The Givers.
Reuters photojournalist Joshua Roberts was escorted out of yesterday’s Impeachment Hearings after a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee
Reuters photojournalist Joshua Roberts was escorted out of yesterday’s Impeachment Hearings after a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee noticed him taking photos of the papers on one of the Democratic members’ desks at the dais. Reuters maintains that Roberts was doing nothing wrong.
The US Government is being sued by two documentary filmmaking organizations over new visa registration rules that require applicants to divulge any and
The US Government is being sued by two documentary filmmaking organizations over new visa registration rules that require applicants to divulge any and all social media handles–including pseudonyms–that they’ve used over the past 5 years. The lawsuit claims that the new rules constitute “unconstitutional surveillance” and could even put foreign filmmakers in danger.
The photographers allege that DHS illegally detained and interrogated them to chill news coverage of immigrants at US-Mexico border.
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/11/5-photojournalists-sue-homeland-security-for-first-amendment-violations.html
Five freelance photojournalists have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for violation of their First Amendment rights, the ACLU announced yesterday. The journalists are alleging that Customs and Border Patrol agents tracked, detained and interrogated them because of their coverage of immigration issues along the U.S-Mexico border in 2018 and 2019.
In a keynote address to the Anti-Defamation League, entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen calls the platforms created by Facebook, Googl
via kottke.org: https://kottke.org/19/11/sasha-baron-cohen-says-tech-companies-built-the-greatest-propaganda-machine-in-history
In a keynote address to the Anti-Defamation League, entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen calls the platforms created by Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other companies “the greatest propaganda machine in history” and blasts them for allowing hate, bigotry, and anti-Semitism to flourish on these services.
Editors at the campus newspaper spurred a backlash from professional journalists after they apologized for how they covered protests at a speech by Jeff Sessions.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/business/media/northwestern-university-newspaper.html
Editors at the campus newspaper spurred a backlash from professional journalists after they apologized for how they covered protests at a speech by Jeff Sessions.
Maria Ressa, editor of a popular news site in the Philippines, has incurred President Duterte and his supporters’ wrath by investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/magazine/rappler-philippines-maria-ressa.html
Rappler, one of the country’s most popular media platforms, has incurred President Duterte and his supporters’ wrath by investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign.
Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning photojournalist Barbara Davidson has been booted from the Canon Explorers of Light program after an insensitive tweet
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/08/14/canon-drops-ambassador-barbara-davidson-for-racist-tweet/
Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning photojournalist Barbara Davidson has been booted from the Canon Explorers of Light program after an insensitive tweet aimed at Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro sparked outrage on social media.
In light of the consecutive mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, we discuss how gun violence is covered by U.S. media in terms of what we see and what we don’t see.
via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2019/08/gun-violence-visual-censorship/
To show or not to show? When does publishing photos of carnage become exploitative, gratuitous and pornographic, and when does it become critical information and a prompt for change?
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/communityguidelines/
Imagine my surprise when after posting a photograph from the Abu Ghraib archives next to a recent one of Donald Trump on Instagram I was informed by the site that the post had been removed because it went against “Community Guidelines.” A little further down, the notification gave a more specific reason, which is worth quoting in full: “Post removed for violence or dangerous organizations”.
Research by: Eyal Itkin TL;DR Cameras. We take them to every important life event, we bring them on our vacations, and we store them in a protective case to keep them safe during transit. Cameras are more than just a tool or toy; we entrust them with our
via Check Point Research: https://research.checkpoint.com/say-cheese-ransomware-ing-a-dslr-camera/
Our research shows how an attacker in close proximity (WiFi), or an attacker who already hijacked our PC (USB), can also propagate to and infect our beloved cameras with malware. Imagine how would you respond if attackers inject ransomware into both your computer and the camera, causing them to hold all of your pictures hostage unless you pay ransom.
July 19, 1994. About 3 pm. I’m standing on a canal bank in south central Bakersfield, talking with some members of the Kern County Sheriff’s Department’s Search and Rescue team. T…
via You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story: https://johnhartephoto.wordpress.com/2019/06/23/the-story-of-my-second-arrest/
July 19, 1994. About 3 pm. I’m standing on a canal bank in south central Bakersfield, talking with some members of the Kern County Sheriff’s Department’s Search and Rescue team. They have been called, as have I, to this location for a report of a little boy who has disappeared in the canal’s waters. I don’t know it, but in about 10 minutes, I’m going to be arrested for the second time in my career. And that’s the nature of photojournalism, that’s how quickly a situation can turn on you. One minute you’re talking with deputies and officers you know. The next minute, one you don’t know shows up, decides you don’t belong there, and all hell breaks loose. And that’s what happened on this day.
Because posing for a photo can be interpreted as a form of pride, scenes of the accused often resemble paparazzi shots or perp walks.
via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2019/06/amish-mennonites-sexual-abuse/
As it happens, visual depictions of Amish and conservative Mennonite communities already share some traits with those of Hollywood celebrities. Many of their photographs in the press look like they were taken by paparazzi: shot from discrete angles, from the side or behind, often with long telephoto lenses. Because they hold a conviction that posing for a photograph can be interpreted as a form of pride, or as an affront to the biblical commandment against graven images, conservative Anabaptists usually resist being photographed. Faraway, detached images, then, are what inform much of the public’s visual vocabulary of Plain church communities. Those who see them at all are used to seeing them from a distance.
Hong Kong police held a press conference yesterday to discuss the anti-extradition bill protests that have been raging this week. Photojournalists showed
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/06/13/photojournalists-wear-safety-gear-to-hong-kong-police-presser-in-protest/
Hong Kong police held a press conference yesterday to discuss the anti-extradition bill protests that have been raging this week. Photojournalists showed up to the presser wearing helmets, gas masks, and safety vests in protest of the excessive force they say police have been using against them.