An Apple patent describes a system for allowing venue owners to override compliant cameras. The patent describes using an infrared signal that compliant cameras would detect; in the presence of thi…
This is part of an increasing trend to designing hardware and software that allows remote parties to override the instructions of the owners and users of devices. This trend, coupled with the increasing degree to which devices are privy to our secrets, our sensitive information, and even our biological functions, worries me an awful lot.
Citing First Amendment violations, a Florida publisher and the Society of Professional Journalists have filed suit against the city of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and its police chief over the city’s temporary ban on photography in a public area around a Holl
“Warning. No Trespassing. Photography of this area is strictly prohibited. Strictly enforced by FLPD. Violators subjet (sic) to arrest. City Ordinance 16-1”
City police officers are reportedly being paid by the film producers to guard the periphery, and enforce the photo ban.
The public had a strong reaction to the exhibition at the LOOK3 Festival of Ashley Gilbertson’s Bedrooms of the Fallen photographs, which show the bedrooms of soldiers who died as a result of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The photographs are being exhibit
The Olympian reports that vandals found where photographer Tony Overman lives in nearby Tumwater to intimidate him. The newspaper also reports that the perpetrators left a message with black paint on its building that said: “Overman snitch.”
As our organization has previously stated, photography by itself is not a suspicious activity and is protected by the First Amendment. Any abridgement of a constitutionally protected activity, especially in a thinly veiled attempt to limit public discourse is highly improper.
In the future, a designated news photographer — using a heavily muffled camera — will be present in the room to record televised presidential addresses like President Obama’s announcement on May 1 that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
Ten photojournalists have been awarded $1,000 each for the Yunghi Kim grant—a grant meant to bring awareness of the importance of copyright registration.
President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel were clearly of two very different minds about the prospect of Israel reverting to its pre-1967 borders. The official White House photo by Pete Souza — showing the two leaders huddling outside the Oval Office on Friday — didn’t make life easy for picture editors.
By releasing this single picture, was the White House trying to convey a sense of comity? Of presidential confidence? Of a deep understanding between president and prime minister? There was no answering these questions, because no journalists witnessed the moment.
World Press Photo has been forced to close down its exhibition in Beirut after a winning project by Israeli photographer Amit Sha’al sparked local protests
Anton Hammerl, the South African photographer who has been missing in Libya since early in April, was not released on Wednesday, as some hoped he would be.
“Until I see him, I don’t believe any of these reports,” Penny Sukhraj, Mr. Hammerl’s wife, said by phone from London on Wednesday afternoon. “It’s just a recipe for emotional disaster.”
Iran said Tuesday it was pursuing the case of a missing Al Jazeera reporter, saying she had committed “several offenses,” including traveling without a valid passport.
Iran said Tuesday that it was pursuing information about a missing Al Jazeera reporter sent to Tehran by the Syrian government in early May, saying she had committed “several offenses,” including traveling without a valid passport.
“No caption can make a fake picture real,” he said. “A fake picture is a fake picture. We already have a big enough problem getting a reader to believe us. Our credibility is all that we have. That trust — once broken — is never fully recovered.”
Freelance photographer Anton Hammerl remains unaccounted for in Libya, more than 40 days after Libyan authorities say they took him into custody. The lack of information has escalated concern among his family and friends about his health and safety. “All
If the White House moves to a pool, said Doug Mills, White House photographer for The New York Times, “we are taking one step forward — we get live coverage — and four steps backward — we will lose four photographers from the room. “
He continued, “We clearly lose out in terms of perspective. There will be no wide shots or risk-taking, for that matter.”
South African photographer Jodi Bieber has appealed to the international photography community to help spread the word about fellow countryman Anton Hammerl, a photographer that has been detained in Libya since 05 April
The Associated Press has filed a legal request for the photos of Osama Bin Laden’s dead body, citing the Freedom of Information Act. The agency also demands that it is provided with the video of the raid taken by the military personnel during the raid an
