As fidelity to facts leads to hardships, the Bangladeshi photographer’s incarceration demonstrates how a government restricts expression and criticism.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/lens/shahidul-alam-fiercely-devoted-to-the-truth.html
As fidelity to facts leads to hardships, the Bangladeshi photographer’s incarceration demonstrates how a government restricts expression and criticism.
The president, speaking on the South Lawn before leaving for a brief jaunt to Paris, also targeted the reporter April D. Ryan with an unprompted diatribe in which he called her a “loser.”
President Trump said on Friday that he might revoke the credentials of additional White House reporters if they did not “treat the White House with respect,” lobbing another threat at the news media two days after his administration effectively blacklisted the CNN correspondent Jim Acosta.
After numerous delays, a high court in Bangladesh refused to hear the bail petition for photographer Shahidul Alam, who has been held in jail without charge since August 5. The two-judge panel told Alam’s lawyers to seek bail from another court. This was
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/11/shahidul-alam-denied-bail-for-5th-time.html
After numerous delays, a high court in Bangladesh refused to hear the bail petition for photographer Shahidul Alam, who has been held in jail without charge since August 5. The two-judge panel told Alam’s lawyers to seek bail from another court. This was the fifth time Alam’s lawyers had sought his release on bail, according to numerous news reports.
A New York Times article on the mounting risk of widespread famine in Yemen showed images by photojournalist Tyler Hicks of malnourished, critically ill children amidst the Saudi-led war against Houthi rebels backed by Iran. The article went viral, as peo
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/10/the-image-of-famine-that-facebook-tried-to-censor.html
Speaking that day at a PDN Talk, “Covering Conflict,” photojournalist Alex Potter, who has lived in and covered Yemen before and after the current crisis, called Facebook’s action “a form of censorship.”
Facebook later restored the posts, which showed a photo of an unclothed child. “We know this is an important image of global significance,” a spokeswoman said.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/business/facebook-blocks-nyt-yemen.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The article included several images of emaciated children. Some were crying. Some were listless. One, a 7-year-old girl named Amal, was shown gazing to the side, with flesh so paper-thin that her collarbone and rib cage were plainly visible. Tens of thousands of readers shared the article on Facebook, but some got a message notifying them that the post was not in line with Facebook’s community standards.
Shahidul Alam, the award-winning photographer, teacher, and founder of the photo agencies Drik Photo and Majority World, was denied bail at a hearing on September 11, 36 days after plainclothes police dragged him from his home. Alam has been charged under
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/09/shahidul-alam-denied-bail-ordered-moved-new-jail-cell-freeshahidulalam-update.html
Shahidul Alam, the award-winning photographer, teacher, and founder of the photo agencies Drik Photo and Majority World, was denied bail at a hearing on September 11, 36 days after plainclothes police dragged him from his home. Alam has been charged under Section 57 of Bangladesh’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, which criminalizes the sharing of information that “prejudices the image of the state or a person.” He had posted Facebook videos and given an interview to Al Jazeera in which he criticized the government for attacks on journalists and student protesters. Police filed a case claiming Alam had “spread false propaganda.” Human Rights Watch says Alam’s detention is “politically motivated,” and is being used by the government to demonstrate that “no one who dares criticize or challenge its actions will be spared.”
This week, the President ramped up his tirades against journalists as the F.B.I. arrested a man for making a series of threats against the Boston Globe newsroom.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-attacks-on-the-news-media-are-getting-even-more-dangerous
Donald Trump picked an awkward moment for his latest tirade against the news media. On Twitter, early on Thursday morning, he lashed out at CNN and NBC News, two of his favorite targets, singling out their respective top executives, Jeff Zucker and Andy Lack, for ridicule. In a separate tweet, Trump wrote, “I just cannot state strongly enough how totally dishonest much of the Media is. Truth doesn’t matter to them, they only have their hatred & agenda. This includes fake books, which come out about me all the time, always anonymous sources, and are pure fiction. Enemy of the People!”
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What it is, what it means and what photographers can do to safeguard themselves, their data and their associates
What it is, what it means and what photographers can do to safeguard themselves, their data and their associates
What it is, what it means and what photographers can do to safeguard themselves, their data and their associates
What it is, what it means and what photographers can do to safeguard themselves, their data and their associates
What it is, what it means and what photographers can do to safeguard themselves, their data and their associates
What it is, what it means and what photographers can do to safeguard themselves, their data and their associates
Affirming the right of citizens to photograph law enforcement activities, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reinstated a claim by activists who sued the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for stopping them from photographing CBP activiti
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/08/appeals-court-reinstates-first-amendment-claim-border-patrol.html
Affirming the right of citizens to photograph law enforcement activities, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reinstated a claim by activists who sued the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for stopping them from photographing CBP activities and destroying their photographs.
A festival in the Netherlands has come up with a strange response to the EU’s new GDPR privacy laws: it’s asking attendees who don’t want to be
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/08/17/festival-dont-want-to-be-in-photos-put-a-red-dot-on-your-forehead/
A festival in the Netherlands has come up with a strange response to the EU’s new GDPR privacy laws: it’s asking attendees who don’t want to be photographed to opt out by putting a red dot on their forehead.
Over three decades, the photographer has covered major events, natural disasters and the struggle against governmental abuses. Now he is in jail in Bangladesh.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/lens/shahidul-alam-bangladesh-photo.html
Over three decades, the photographer has covered major events, natural disasters and the struggle against governmental abuses. Now he is in jail in Bangladesh.
It is your right as an American to read what you will, to write what you think, and to publish what you believe.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-freedom-of-the-press-is-yours/567655/
It is your right as an American to read what you will, to write what you think, and to publish what you believe.
The refusal to bend to the President’s assault on the press, and the protection of practices and institutions that are more fragile than we usually care to acknowledge, is essential to the future of American democracy.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trump-and-the-enemies-of-the-people
Nearly every day, Trump makes his hostility clear. He refers to reporters as “scum,” “slime,” and “sick people.” They are cast as unpatriotic––“I really think they don’t like our country,” he says. They are “trying to take away our history and our heritage.” Trump has smeared critical news organizations as “fake news,” a term gleefully adopted by Putin, Bashar al-Assad, and other autocrats who are delighted to have their own repressive reflexes endorsed by an American President. Trump has threatened to sue publishers, cancel broadcast licenses, change libel laws. He betrays no sense of understanding, much less of endorsing, the rudiments of American liberty. During a visit from the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, Trump told reporters that he thought it was “frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write.”
Shahidul Alam remains in jail. Amidst a security crackdown in Bangladesh, his supporters continue calling for his release—and ask others to support him and his colleagues in the press.
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/08/the-freeshahidulalam-campaign-how-you-can-help.html
More than a week after police jailed Bangladeshi photographer, educator and activist Shahidul in order to silence him, his supporters continue to call on others in the photo community to join the #freeshahidulalam campaign.
On August 12, 2017, a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to “Unite the Right” brought white nationalism to the center of American news. Ahead of the next demonstration, to be held this weekend in Washington DC, I spoke with a scholar of media manipula
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/first_person/should-we-cover-right-wing-extremism.php
Light disinfects, but light also illuminates. It does both things simultaneously in ways that are very unpredictable. I think information is good, and to participate actively in your democracy, you need to know what’s happening. But you relinquish some control of what is going to happen to the information you put out there. And for that reason you need to be a little bit wary of who you’re shining the light for, and what you end up illuminating, for which groups of people.
On August 13, 2012, only a few days after celebrating his 31st birthday, freelance journalist Austin Tice emailed his father back in Houston to let him know he had wrapped up his reporting from Syria. Tice’s parents have not heard from him since. Austi
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalist-austin-tice-has-been-missing-in-syria-for-six-years-is-it-still-news.php
To mark the sixth anniversary of Austin’s captivity next Tuesday, the National Press Club is hosting an event with Tice’s parents and representatives from McClatchy and The Washington Post, both of which published Austin’s work from Syria. “Austin Tice is a talented, courageous, and committed freelance journalist,” said Doug Jehl, the Post’s foreign editor. “His parents, Marc and Debra, have championed his cause with passion, courage and fortitude.” McClatchy is distributing #FreeAustinTice flags and banners, which will be displayed in their offices and newsrooms throughout the country. (At least five other journalists are missing in Syria and more than 120 journalists have been killed covering the conflict.,)
Alreadymade, an online directory, seeks gender parity in advertising by providing a resource for clients looking to hire experienced women photographers.
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/06/gender-parity-advertising-photography.html
Photographer Jill Greenberg has launched an online directory in an effort to promote women photographers for advertising jobs, film and television key art, and magazine covers. Called Alreadymade, the platform serves as a resource for clients looking to hire experienced women photographers. To be included on the site, photographers have to have shot at least three ad campaigns, and have handled productions with budgets north of $125,000. Forty-nine women photographers are now listed on Alreadymade, and Greenberg says she plans to continue adding to the list.