The town of Weare, New Hampshire, has paid $57,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a citizen who was arrested in 2010 after attempting to videotape a traffic stop, according to a report by the New Hampshire Union Leader. The settlement came after a f
The much adored Kelis was the first concert I have photographed in awhile, and the person at the Park West box office said I’d be able to photograph the whole concert. He was mistaken. I was escorted out shortly after the third song while concertgoers were still lifting up their cellphones, photographing the singer throughout the entire concert.
“In an apparent expansion of the government’s secrecy powers, the top official in charge of the classification system has decided that it was legitimate for the Marines to classify photograph…
Information Security Oversight Office director John P. Fitzpatrick accepted the argument made by the Marines for classifying the photographs: the photos could encourage attacks against US troops
Editor’s Note: This video contains strong language that is not suitable for viewing at work. We’ve seen our fair share of photographers being harassed by
Fortunately the unnamed photographer had the presence of mind to begin secretly recording the altercation when he saw how aggressive Mears was being, because, according to the video, when the police arrived, she tried to tell them he had assaulted her
In nearly five months in office, de Blasio barred the media from 53 events and limited access to 30 more, an Associated Press analysis of de Blasio’s schedule shows. On a handful of days, his entire schedule was off limits. All told, more than 20 percent of his listed events were closed to the media.
Some dates are defining dates and everyone remembers where they have been on those date. One such date is 9/11. If I asked you where you were on that day you’d probably remember. One of the photographs most associated with that day is The Falling Man. Int
Interestingly, Singer notes that while this was one of the images that stood out on that day’s coverage it has almost gone away, to the point where Singer decided it deserves a movie:
The museum’s PR man told Gothamist: “If you go to our website, it clearly states that all media access has to be cleared through my office. I don’t recall providing Mrs. Chung a pass for reporting purposes. Chung was welcome to join the countless of other reporters on the memorial plaza. Our security team acted accordingly per our guidelines and rules. It wasn’t personal.”
Another difference was the way lots of people looked at foreign media. Before Gezi, it was easy to be a foreign reporter here, but now we’d somehow become responsible for all that ailed Turkey. The government has fed many a conspiracy theory.
In an interview with a local newspaper Friday, Maxim Ksenzov, deputy head of the government’s telecommunications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, called Twitter a “political” tool that undermines the state’s authority.
Photographer Jack Hill and reporter Anthony Lloyd of The Times of London escaped to Turkey after they were kidnapped, beaten and shot by a rebel gang in Syria, the newspaper has reported. The two journalists had been in Aleppo accompanied by bodyguards, a
In producing this just-under 12 minute video, ReasonTV draws on quotes from BagNews to illustrate how thoroughly the White House controls Obama’s visual image.
Discrete street photography is not really what Mikel Patrick Avery did. In fact, he put a sign next to his X-series cameras and wrote DO NOT LOOK HERE on it. The result can be seen in the video above.
I am not really sure how to tag this other than a big #fail for the USPTO, or a huge Kudos for Amazon’s IP attorneys. In a patent simply called Studio arrangement Amazon took IP ownership on what we all call shooting against a seamless white backdrop. The
I am not really sure how to tag this other than a big #fail for the USPTO, or a huge Kudos for Amazon’s IP attorneys. In a patent simply called Studio arrangement Amazon took IP ownership on what we all call shooting against a seamless white backdrop.
This month’s cover story of National Geographic, about how to meet growing worldwide demand for food, is the story that got photographer George Steinmetz in trouble last June, and he’s still stinging from the experience. Caught in the political crossfire
“It was quite a surprise to me,” says Steinmetz, who is renowned for the beautiful aerial landscapes he shoots all over the world, and who is used to encounters with authorities. “I’ve been detained in Iran and Yemen, and questioned about spying, but never arrested. And then I get thrown in jail in America.”
Fond du Lac Principal Jon Wiltzius said he wasn’t sure what the message was with that image.
“The lack of understanding of knowing what the message was made it very clear that that wasn’t something that we should print in our newspaper,” Wiltzius said.
At issue are claims aired by Geo News, Mr. Mir’s employer and the largest station, that the military’s powerful spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, was behind the April 19 attack in which Mr. Mir was shot six times as he traveled to a Karachi television studio.
Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine released the American journalist Simon Ostrovsky on Thursday, three days after he was taken prisoner in Slovyansk while reporting for Vice News.
“Edouard Elias , Didier Francois, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres are in good health, despite the extremely harsh conditions of their captivity. They will arrive in France in the next hours,” the statement read.
The City of Baltimore and its police department have agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a claim of unlawful seizure and destruction of cell phone videos that belonged to a citizen who allegedly recorded police arresting and beating another person. Police ha
The exhibition will present work in a variety of formats, from traditional 4×5 inch large format photography to toy cameras, phone cameras, and even underwater GoPro cameras and includes Jonas Yip, Wednesday Aja, Deborah Arlook, Tami Bahat, Magela Crosignani, Christopher Hall, Tracy Fleischman Morgenthau, Izumi Tanaka, Juliet Deissroth, Kristen Perman, and Sabine Pearlman
Why Is There Still a 3 Song Limit at Concerts?
