Category: Access & Censorship
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Photographers Grapple With ‘Informed Consent’ in Uprising | FAIR
Photographers Grapple With ‘Informed Consent’ in Uprising A Photo Bill of Right’s language about “informed consent” has caused a stir among journalists. via FAIR: https://fair.org/home/photographers-grapple-with-informed-consent-in-uprising/ A new Photo Bill of Rights, inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and the current uprising against police brutality, has caused fissures in the American photojournalism community and raised an important…
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bellingcat – Visualizing Police Violence Against Journalists At Protests Across The U.S – bellingcat
Visualizing Police Violence Against Journalists At Protests Across The U.S – bellingcat After watching the gruesome killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin — the officer who put his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost 9 minutes — the United States has broken out in a rage. Protestors are…
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Photographer Sues Police for Blinding Her Left Eye, Uses Last Photo as Proof
Photographer Sues Police for Blinding Her Left Eye, Uses Last Photo as Proof Last month, while covering protests in Minneapolis sparked by the killing of George Floyd, photojournalist Linda Tirado was blinded by a foam bullet fired via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/06/16/photographer-sues-police-for-blinding-her-left-eye-uses-last-photo-as-proof/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 According to court documents obtained by PetaPixel, Ms. Tirado “stepped in front of the protesting…
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Podcast: Photojournalists Have a Heated Ethics Debate & Black Photographers Create the VogueChallenge – PhotoShelter Blog
Podcast: Photojournalists Have a Heated Ethics Debate & Black Photographers Create the VogueChallenge – PhotoShelter Blog As photographers responded to the controversial Poynter article entitled “Photographers are being called on to stop showing protesters’ face. Should they?” PhotoShelter co-founder Allen Murabayashi published a series of pieces that intensified the convers via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/06/podcast-photojournalists-have-a-heated-ethics-debate-black-photographers-create-the-voguechallenge/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 As…
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On Ethics, The First Amendment, and Photographing Protestors’ Faces – PhotoShelter Blog
On Ethics, The First Amendment, and Photographing Protestors’ Faces – PhotoShelter Blog A vigorous, sometimes vitriolic debate has erupted in photography circles around whether to photograph protestors’ faces. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/06/on-ethics-the-first-amendment-and-photographing-protestors-faces/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 A vigorous, sometimes vitriolic debate has erupted in photography circles around whether to photograph protestors’ faces. As someone who’s written about the topic,…
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Yunghi Kim: “Is agreeing NOT to show a person’s face against the ethics of journalism?” – PhotoShelter Blog
Yunghi Kim: “Is agreeing NOT to show a person’s face against the ethics of journalism?” – PhotoShelter Blog Editor’s note: Veteran photojournalist Yunghi Kim (@yunghi) sent me the following thoughts after the publication of my article about the ethics of showing protestors’ faces. My professional perspective is that there is a problem with the Poynter…
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No, Photojournalists Aren’t Advocating the Blurring of Faces at Protests – PhotoShelter Blog
No, Photojournalists Aren’t Advocating the Blurring of Faces at Protests – PhotoShelter Blog In the midst of global protests in support of #BlackLivesMatter, the Poynter Institute caused a ruckus within the photojournalism industry last week with the provocatively titled “Photographers are being called on to stop showing protestors’ faces. Should via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/06/no-photojournalists-arent-advocating-the-blurring-of-faces-at-protests/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 In…
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Photojournalists Assaulted During 2020 Protests – PhotoShelter Blog
Photojournalists Assaulted During 2020 Protests – PhotoShelter Blog This is a rolling list of assaults against photojournalists by police and protestors covering the George Floyd protests around the country. Some of the data is pulled from the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s list. This list does not include detainment w via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/06/photojournalists-assaulted-during-2020-protests/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 This…
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Attacks on media covering the protests are simply following the president’s rhetoric – Poynter
Attacks on media covering the protests are simply following the president’s rhetoric – Poynter When President Trump, the leader of the free world, disrespects the press, why should we expect citizens to respect them? via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2020/attacks-on-media-covering-the-protests-are-simply-following-the-presidents-rhetoric/ For his entire administration, Trump has continually bashed the media — calling it “lamestream” and “fake news” and,…
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Photojournalists Attacked and Arrested at Protests Around the Country – PhotoShelter Blog
Photojournalists Attacked and Arrested at Protests Around the Country – PhotoShelter Blog In the span of less than a week, concerns about COVID-19 have taken a backseat to the nationwide protests against police brutality and racism sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmad Aubrey, and Breonna Taylor. Photojournalists covering the scenes hav via PhotoShelter…
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The police abuses the press. Again. – Columbia Journalism Review
The police abuses the press. Again. On Friday night—as mass protests sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, and Black Americans in Kentucky, Georgia, and elsewhere convulsed America—anchors with WAVE 3 News, the NBC affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky, were conversing on ai via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/the-police-abuses-the-press-again.php ON FRIDAY NIGHT—as mass protests sparked…
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A Reporter’s Cry on Live TV: ‘I’m Getting Shot! I’m Getting Shot!’ – The New York Times
A Reporter’s Cry on Live TV: ‘I’m Getting Shot! I’m Getting Shot!’ From a television crew assaulted by protesters to a photographer struck in the eye, journalists have found themselves targeted on the streets of America. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/us/minneapolis-protests-press.html From a television crew assaulted by protesters to a photographer struck in the eye, journalists have found…
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Journalists covering nights of protests and unrest found themselves under attack – Poynter
Journalists covering nights of protests and unrest found themselves under attack – Poynter On any given day, any one of these attacks would be newsworthy. Friday night, they were numerous. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/journalists-covering-nights-of-protests-and-unrest-found-themselves-under-attack/ On any given day, any one of the attacks that I mention in this column would be newsworthy. The fact that this…
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Inside the Early Days of China’s Coronavirus Coverup | WIRED
Inside the Early Days of China’s Coronavirus Coverup The dawn of a pandemic—as seen through the news and social media posts that vanished from China’s internet. via Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-coverup/ The dawn of a pandemic—as seen through the news and social media posts that vanished from China’s internet.
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Photographer cited, had drone confiscated for documenting Hart Island mass burials with his drone: Digital Photography Review
Photographer cited, had drone confiscated for documenting Hart Island mass burials with his drone George Steinmetz, whose aerial photography work appears in National Geographic and the New York Times, was cited for flying his drone over a massive burial ditch on Hart Island. via DPReview: https://www.dpreview.com/news/0697559238/photographer-cited-drone-documenting-hart-island-mass-burials-with-his-drone This past Tuesday, while documenting a burial ditch located…
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What is HIPAA and how does it affect our understanding of the coronavirus? – Poynter
What is HIPAA and how does it affect our understanding of the coronavirus? – Poynter The widely misunderstood act is being invoked to limit access to COVID-19 data and to block journalists from documenting shortages and the illness itself. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/hipaa-and-coronavirus/ Hospitals are blocking journalists from documenting what it’s like inside their walls and…
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Every Inch of Earth – Guernica
Every Inch of Earth Sebastian Meyer and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Until Kamaran was captured by ISIS. via Guernica: https://www.guernicamag.com/every-inch-of-earth/ Sebastian Meyer and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed…
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Pandemic, photography, and psychological distance – Columbia Journalism Review
Pandemic, photography, and psychological distance Decisions made by photojournalists and their editors define traumatic events in the cultural consciousness. Throughout coverage of COVID-19, many news outlets have published photographs that reiterate racist tropes, suggest a false gap between “East” a via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/opinion/covid-19-photos-distance-bias.php DECISIONS MADE BY PHOTOJOURNALISTS and their editors define traumatic events…
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“I needed to ensure that I didn’t go unnoticed”: Photojournalist Shahidul Alam on his new book and notorious 101-day incarceration
“I needed to ensure that I didn’t go unnoticed”: Photojournalist Shahidul Alam on his new book and notorious 101-day incarceration It’s been over a year since Shahidul Alam was taken from his home and arrested. We chat to the Bangladeshi photographer to hear about his experiences, how he continues to fight for social justice and…