Forough Alaei detained with at least five other activists for sneaking into sports events, which is forbidden for Iranian women
Forough Alaei detained with at least five other activists for sneaking into sports events, which is forbidden for Iranian women
Street photographer Joshua Rosenthal found himself at the center of a rage-fueled campaign by visitors to the Ventura County Fair. Rosenthal’s transgression? Photographing people – including some children – in public without explicit consent. Street photography has a long history of candidly capturing subjects, but in today’s climate, does intent matter? In this episode of…
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2019/08/should-street-photography-be-illegal/
Street photography has a long history of candidly capturing subjects, but in today’s climate, does intent matter? In this episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah and Allen contemplate the work of photographers Daniel Arnold, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Mary Ellen Mark, Susan Meiselas, Philip Lorca Dicorcia, Vivan Maier, and Martha Cooper.
In the wake of 9/11, when the US invaded Afghanistan, journalists flew into the country with American troops and filed stories on America’s war against terrorism. Later, in 2003, the press helped convince the American public that the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that US intervention was necessary to liberate […]
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/yemen-war.php
But a fourth war, in Yemen, equal in destruction and in its potential for fallout that directly affects Americans, has been covered very differently. Amnesty International has described it as the “forgotten war.” Coverage of the conflict, which has raged for five years and has precipitated one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, has been sporadic and simplistic.
The İstanbul 33rd High Criminal Court on Thursday handed down a suspended 20-month sentence to a photojournalist on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda, Turkish media reported. Çağdaş Erdoğan was taken into police custody in September 2017 while he was taking photographs in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district, on allegations of photographing a Turkish intelligence building in the […]
via Stockholm Center for Freedom: https://stockholmcf.org/photojournalist-sentenced-for-terrorist-propaganda-over-a-photo/
Çağdaş Erdoğan was taken into police custody in September 2017 while he was taking photographs in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district, on allegations of photographing a Turkish intelligence building in the area. After 11 days in custody, he was put in pretrial detention by a court on terrorism charges. Erdoğan was released pending trial in February 2018.
In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/opinion/press-freedom-arthur-sulzberger.html
In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.
Just a couple of days after banning deepfake videos, Facebook has confirmed that politicians can still lie in ads bought on the platform …
via 9to5Mac: https://ww.9to5mac.com/2020/01/09/politicians-can-still-lie/
Just a couple of days after banning deepfake videos, Facebook has confirmed that politicians can still lie in ads bought on the platform
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.