Link: Russia jails freelance photog; Russian media blackout photos in protest | dvafoto
Among those arrested was freelance photographer Denis Sinyakov, a Redux contributing photographer, who now faces months in prison
Category: Access & Censorship
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Russia jails freelance photog; Russian media blackout photos in protest
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American government keeps files on “suspicious” photographers
Link: American government keeps files on “suspicious” photographers | dvafoto
Many of the incidents and investigations contained in these “Suspicious Activity Reports” end, as above, with a line similar to “No further police action/investigation was taken.” However, the reports show that individuals are being targeted for being unfriendly, taking pictures for an art class, or buying water. It’s a waste of resources and potentially quite harmful to the people whose actions are being investigated
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Police Intimidation Watch: New Haven Police Sued for Arresting Photographer, Erasing iPhone Video
Police Intimidation Watch: New Haven Police Sued for Arresting Photographer, Erasing iPhone Video | PDNPulse
A New Haven man jailed for recording New Haven, Connecticut police arresting three people filed a $500,000 lawsuit suit yesterday against the city and several individual officers for violation of his civil rights. Luis Luna, a medical interpreter, was jai
A New Haven man jailed for recording New Haven, Connecticut police arresting three people filed a $500,000 lawsuit suit yesterday against the city and several individual officers for violation of his civil rights.
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The Falling Man – 9/11 Suicide Photograph
The Falling Man
Do you remember thisphotograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from therecord of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search forthe man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of thatd
via Esquire: http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN?src=soc_fcbks
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
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Hollande ‘village idiot’ photo sparks censorship row after image is withdrawn
Hollande ‘village idiot’ photo sparks censorship row after image is withdrawn
President Hollande found himself at the centre of an embarrassing debate yesterday after Agence France-Presse (AFP), the French press agency, withdrew a photograph that left him looking like a…
Link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3860487.ece
President Hollande found himself at the centre of an embarrassing debate yesterday after Agence France-Presse (AFP), the French press agency, withdrew a photograph that left him looking like a village idiot.
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More and More Journalists Are Being Kidnapped in Syria
More and More Journalists Are Being Kidnapped in Syria
Journalists who are justifiably worried about being kidnapped by the rebels or the regime are being forced to reconsider the way they cover the ongoing civil war, even as they feel a duty to continue reporting on it.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/its-getting-much-harder-to-report-on-the-war-in-syria
So what does this mean for journalists covering the war? For Szlanko, “It all adds up to what I’m doing now, which is not going there.” Wilcox, however, believes that “reporting on the conflict in Syria is still important. However, when colleagues and other people go missing, it just adds to the already insurmountable issues.”
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Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance
Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance
A standoff is looming between technology companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google and government … even though much of the focus until now has portrayed the two as being in the same camp.
Everyone assumes that technology companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google don’t care that their customers are being spied on. I don’t believe that’s true.
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Cop Who Arrested Times Photog Faces Seven Years
Cop Who Arrested Times Photographer Faces Seven Years in Prison
For allegedly lying about the facts.
via Intelligencer: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/cop-who-arrested-times-photog-faces-seven-years.html
New York-based British photographer Giles Clarke uncovers the inhumane conditions of El Salvador’s gang prisons in a series he calls Caged In El Salvador
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An Unlucky Photographer Catches a Break
An Unlucky Photographer Catches a Break – PhotoShelter Blog
Freelance photojournalist Robert Stolarik has been covering New York City for The New York Times for over a decade and in the span of a year, he has been harassed by the NYPD multiple times. In 2011, Stolarik was pushed down the stairs of the Winter Garde
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/08/an-unlucky-photographer-catches-a-break/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
Yesterday, the police officer, Michael Ackerman, was indicted on three felony counts and five misdemeanors for falsifying business records and tampering with public records that led to the arrest. He pleaded not guilty and released on bail, and has been suspended without pay by the NYPD pending the outcome of the case.
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War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist
War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist
The recent security and military leaks have received predictable criticism from the government, but a number of journalists have also lashed out at those who are closest to the stories.
It’s not surprising that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who brokered the publishing of Private Manning’s documents, and Glenn Greenwald, the columnist for The Guardian who has led the Snowden revelations, have also come under intense criticism.
What is odd is that many pointing the finger are journalists
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Opinion: NSA’s surveillance programs are the “most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen.”
Opinion: NSA’s surveillance programs are the “most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen.”
The NSA’s state surveillance programs are anti-democratic and unconstitutional. They could be the most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen. On Sunday, U.K. intelligence officers he…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/22/opinion-nsas-surveillance-p.html
Our human rights to speak and to communicate, to report and to assemble, are all at stake. “What I do know is it’s not possible to be fully human if you are being surveilled 24/7,” writes Groklaw’s Jones.
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American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels
American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels
Matthew Schrier, a photographer, says he was held for seven months by jihadi fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. After being robbed, tortured and accused of being an American spy, he escaped in July.
For seven months, Matthew Schrier, 35, was a prisoner in Syria of jihadi fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. Held in bases and prisons run by two Islamist rebel groups, he said, he was robbed, beaten and accused of being an American spy by men who then assumed his identity online.
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California Anti-Paparazzi Law Would Threaten First Amendment Rights
California Anti-Paparazzi Law Would Threaten First Amendment Rights – NPPA Advocacy Committee
Earlier this summer the California legislature proposed a new “anti-paparazzi” bill, which NPPA opposes. More recently, Actresses Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner testified before the California State Assembly, voicing their support for the bill that carri
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2013/08/16/california-anti-paparazzi-law-would-threaten-first-amendment-rights/
If the bill is ultimately signed in to law, anyone with a camera who tries to get a snapshot of a celebrity’s child could be liable if their conduct “alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes the child” and causes “substantial emotional distress.”
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Egypt Lashes Out at Foreign News Media’s Coverage
Egypt Lashes Out at Foreign News Media’s Coverage
A correspondent for Al Jazeera is arrested while other journalists are scolded for failing to portray the crackdown in the government’s terms: as a war against violent terrorists.
Senior government officials, meanwhile, publicly scolded Western correspondents in two news conferences and a public statement for failing to portray the crackdown in the government’s terms: as a war against violent terrorists
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This Is What It Looks Like Just Before the Muslim Brotherhood Jumps You
This Is What It Looks Like Just Before the Muslim Brotherhood Jumps You – ANIMAL
As the recent death toll in Egypt surpasses 500, news of Muslim Brotherhood supporters being slaughtered in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square has been an especially
via ANIMAL: http://animalnewyork.com/2013/this-is-what-it-looks-like-just-before-the-muslim-brotherhood-jumps-you/
All I smell is sweat and spray-paint. All I see are fists. I’m thinking of last year, watching protesters pull a riot cop out of Tahrir Square into an alley and telling Bucky, “That guy is dead.”
Now I’m thinking, “I’m that guy.”
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Lavabit founder has stopped using email: “If you knew what I know, you might not use it either”
Lavabit founder has stopped using email: “If you knew what I know, you might not use it either”
Earlier this week, Xeni reported on the shutdown of Lavabit, the email provider used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ladar Levison, Lavabit’s founder, has given an interview to Forbes ab…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/10/lavabit-founder-has-stopped-us.html
For this round of VICE Loves Magnum we spoke to Dominic Nahr, who – unlike previous interviewees – is still running the gauntlet of selection before becoming a full Magnum member. We discussed Africa’s endless potential for stories, the eeriness of post-tsunami Japan and how a feeling of homelessness can be conducive to taking amazing photos.
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NSA leak: US can spy on Americans, despite direct statements of President, Congress, top spooks
NSA leak: US can spy on Americans, despite direct statements of President, Congress, top spooks
The Guardian has the latest of the Snowden/NSA leaks, detailing the semantic loophole exploited by the Agency in order to spy on the communications of Americans and people in the USA, something it …
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/09/nsa-leak-us-can-spy-on-americ.html
The video below, captured by Elbadil TV, shows this fake protest shoot in action. Unfortunately we have no context regarding the “protest” itself — it could be a legitimate propaganda photo-op or simply a group of students showing how easily these things can be faked — but the creepy result speaks for itself:
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NSA, on US soil, systematically searches Americans’ cross-border communications without warrants
NSA, on US soil, systematically searches Americans’ cross-border communications without warrants
In the New York Times today, Charlie Savage has another new, important story on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. He reports:
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/08/nsa-on-us-soil-systematicall.html
When Kendrick Brinson first heard of Sun City, a retirement community in Arizona that boasts a squad of senior-citizen cheerleaders, she knew she had to visit. Sun City, the first “planned active retirement community,” had its 50th anniversary on Jan. 1, 2010; Brinson made her first trip in December 2009. Six visits and 3½ years later, Brinson released Sun City: Life After Life, a limited-edition book designed by Deb Pang Davis that she envisions as a sort of “retro brochure” or visual guidebook to the community.