Category: Access & Censorship
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Shutterstock Employees Opposed to Censorship in China Told They Can ‘Work Elsewhere’
Shutterstock Employees Opposed to Censorship in China Told They Can ‘Work Elsewhere’ Stock photo giant Shutterstock has found itself in some ethical hot water. In a recording obtained by the media, an executive is heard dismissing via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/03/02/shutterstock-employees-who-are-anti-censorship-told-they-can-work-elsewhere/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Stock photo giant Shutterstock has found itself in some ethical hot water. In a recording obtained…
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Sony World Photography Awards Accused of Censorship After Pulling Hong Kong Protest Photos
Sony World Photography Awards Accused of Censorship After Pulling Hong Kong Protest Photos The Sony World Photography Awards is being accused of censorship by the photojournalist community this week after the renowned competition pulled down via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/02/21/sony-world-photography-awards-accused-of-censorship-after-pulling-hong-kong-protest-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The story first broke in the Hong Kong Free Press, after photographer Ko Chung-ming pointed out that…
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Removal of Hong Kong protest images from Sony World Photography Awards website raises censorship concerns | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Removal of Hong Kong protest images from Sony World Photography Awards website raises censorship concerns | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Images relating to the Hong Kong protests have been taken down from the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards website because of their “sensitive nature.” While the finalists are still in the running for a…
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Fujifilm dropped a top street photographer, but did he cross a line?
Fujifilm dropped a top street photographer, but did he cross a line? Peers of Tatsuo Suzuki, known for his aggressive shooting style, come to his defense. via Input: https://www.inputmag.com/features/tatsuo-suzuki-fujifilm-street-photography-controversy Peers of Tatsuo Suzuki, known for his aggressive shooting style, come to his defense.
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In Homage to – and Defence of – the Work of Tatsuo Suzuki – By Steven Bleistein – 35mmc
In Homage to – and Defence of – the Work of Tatsuo Suzuki – By Steven Bleistein – 35mmc No worthwhile art ever escapes at least some controversy of some kind from some people at some time. Even Ansel Adams, whom no one would likely consider controversial, was no stranger to controversy himself. In the…
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Fujifilm Launched a Camera and Revealed How Their Ambassador Takes Photos. Then He was Canceled. – PhotoShelter Blog
Fujifilm Launched a Camera and Revealed How Their Ambassador Takes Photos. Then He was Canceled. – PhotoShelter Blog As a part of the launch of the Fuji X100V, Fujifilm posted a video on their YouTube channel of Japanese street photographer Tatsuo Suzuki at work. Suzuki’s aggressive style rubbed people the wrong way, and within the…
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Fujifilm Removes Tatsuo Suzuki from X Photographer Program for his Controversial Steet Photography Shooting Style in X100V Video – Fuji Rumors
Fujifilm Removes Tatsuo Suzuki from X Photographer Program for his Controversial Steet Photography Shooting Style in X100V Video – Fuji Rumors The Controversy At the launch of the Fujifilm X100V, Fujifilm released lots of X100V promo videos, some of them made by their talented X photographers. One of t via Fuji Rumors: https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-removes-tatsuo-suzuki-from-x-photographer-program-for-his-controversial-steet-photography-shooting-style-in-x100v-video/ Not only…
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Where is Photography Banned? – Feature Shoot
Where is Photography Banned? – Feature Shoot In the last decade, photographers covering stories for The New York Times, Getty Images, National Geographic, and more have been arrested for taking pictures on US soil. Authorities cracking down… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/01/where-is-photography-banned/ “Post-9-11 was the real start of this (in this century, at least), and it…
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Senate Blocks Photographers from Shooting Delivery of Impeachment Articles
Senate Blocks Photographers from Shooting Delivery of Impeachment Articles The Senate has sparked outrage among photojournalists after revealing a new set of restrictions on journalists, including barring any photographer from via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/01/15/senate-blocks-photographers-from-shooting-delivery-of-impeachment-articles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The rules come after a months-long “standoff” between the authorities on Capitol Hill and The Standing Committee of Correspondents, which represents journalists…
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The E&P Pub: After Flap Over AP Photo — Military Bans Images of Casualties in War
Link: The new rule, contained in a Sept. 19 directive from the Combined Joint Task Force in Bagram, Afghanistan, simply states: “Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S. personnel killed in action.” Period.
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PDNPulse: Detroit Photojournalist: Police Erased My Pictures
Link: The photographer Mitch Epstein, thin and professorial with gray hair and glasses, does not exactly cut a menacing figure. When he ducks beneath the dark cloth of his 8-by-10 view camera, the words that come most readily to mind are late Victorian, not potentially violent.
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Committee to Protect Bloggers » Public call to leak photographic evidence of torture in Iraq and Afghanistan
Link: The U.S. has blocked the release of photos showing clear evidence that the United States is responsible for torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. We think someone with access to the photos should simply leak them on the web, saving tax payers a load of cash and letting people know just what it is our…
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Customs Officer Threatens Photographer «
Customs Officer Threatens Photographer Do the usual laws not apply to Customs and Border Protection officers? There’s one in Tampa who thinks so. When Jay Nolan, a Tampa Tribune photojournalist, arrived at the scene of a three-car… Link: https://boywithgrenade.org/2009/12/07/customs-officer-threatens-photographer/ When Jay Nolan, a Tampa Tribune photojournalist, arrived at the scene of a three-car crash today and took photos, he was detained…
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From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect | guardian.co.uk
From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect Casual shots of London’s Gherkin attract stop and search just days after police were reminded street photography is no offence via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/11/snapshot-special-branch-terror-suspect It felt like a minor terror alert. Four security guards were watching me, whispering into microphones on their…
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Flickr Begins Censoring Content In India | Thomas Hawk
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2009/12/flickr-begins-censoring-content-in-india.html
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Letters: A picture of privatised streets and plain-clothes police
Letters: A picture of privatised streets and plain-clothes police Letters: I was stopped and searched twice near London City airport – for watercolouring via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/18/cities-photography-police-painting-liberties I was stopped and searched twice near London City airport – for watercolouring! I was not even facing the airport. I was painting the Tate and Lyle sugar…
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Flying With Camera Gear Post 25 Dec, 2009
Link: It’s my guess that this is the new normal in air travel. Greater scrutiny, longer and slower lines, more hand inspections, and overall just a greater pain in the ass. No one would argue that we don’t need the security, and I’m sure that some very bright people within the TSA and the airlines…
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Happy Martin Luther King Day, I Wish Photos Were Allowed at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/01/happy-martin-luther-king-day-i-wish-photos-were-allowed-at-the-national-civil-rights-museum-in-memphis.html I was disappointed this morning to learn that the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis (which is housed in the motel building where Dr. King was assassinated at) that I was going to visit this morning does not allow photography.
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Huge turnout for street photography rights: 1854
Link: 1000 and close to 2000 photographers came together in Trafalgar Square