Three photographers have pledged to continue with the Basetrack experiment, despite losing accreditation from the US Marines they had been following for the past six months
Link: US Marines pull the plug on photojournalism experiment – British Journal of Photography
A photographer for an Egyptian newspaper reportedly died last week of gunshot wounds sustained during the protests against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Meanwhile, as the protests seem to be losing steam, foreign photographers are reporting that the s
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/1378.html
The Committee to Protect Journalists reported on Friday that Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud, a journalist working for the newspaper Al-Ta’awun, died of gunshot wounds inflicted January 28. Al-Ahram, another paper that owns Al-Ta’awun, reported that a police officer saw Mahmoud filming the clashes and ordered him to stop. He complied, according to Al-Ahram, but the police officer shot him anyway, hitting him in the eye. Seven eyewitnesses recorded the shooting on their mobile cameras, Al-Ahram reported.
As Egyptian authorities are increasingly targeting journalists, Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael recounts to BJP how he was attacked by pro-Mubarak protestors
Link: Magnum photographer tells of ordeal in Cairo’s streets – British Journal of Photography
Update: This story was first posted February 2, 5:23pm EST. We updated the story after a phone interview with LA Times photographer Michael Robinson Chavez at 5:55 pm. At least two photographers were beaten and their gear stolen as roughly a thousand su
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/photographers-beaten-robbed-as-pro-mubarak-gangs-turn-on-press.html
“Other photographers have lost their [memory] cards,” photographer Dominic Nahr, who is on assignment in Cairo for Time, told PDN. Other photographers were punched or struck by flying rocks.
I only escaped when the soldiers on top of the tank literally ripped me out of the crowd, lifting me by the armpits. I was dumped head first inside the tank. My shit – cameras, cell phone, notepad – everything went flying out of my pockets as I landed amongst the soldiers. As I got myself turned around, I found myself surrounded by 14 Egyptian soldiers – young men my age, smiling at me.
Link: Account of an Attack | Andrew Burton
via: A photojournalist’s account of being attacked in Cairo | dvafoto
ABC News: “We’ve compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt. When you put it all into one list, it is a ra…
Things are changing fast in Egypt right now, and freelance photographer and journalist Matthew Cassel is experiencing it head-on. Cassel, who has been living and traveling throughout the Middle East since the age of 21 and speaks near fluent Arabic, is covering the events as they unfold in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
NYT: “Security forces and gangs chanting in favor of the Egyptian government hunted down journalists at their offices and in the hotels where many had taken refuge on Thursday in a widespread…
Things are changing fast in Egypt right now, and freelance photographer and journalist Matthew Cassel is experiencing it head-on. Cassel, who has been living and traveling throughout the Middle East since the age of 21 and speaks near fluent Arabic, is covering the events as they unfold in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Whether from Western or Arab media, no news organization seemed exempt from the rage.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04journalists.html?_r=1
Security forces and gangs chanting in favor of the Egyptian government hunted down journalists at their offices and in the hotels where many had taken refuge on Thursday in a widespread and overt campaign of intimidation aimed at suppressing reports from the capital.
About an hour ago, six reporters with Al Jazeera were arrested in Cairo. This follows a crackdown on the news network’s operations by the Egyptian government. Al Jazeera correspondent Dan Nol…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/31/egypt-6-al-jazeera-r.html
Ed Ou was an intern at The Times (“A Dozen Promising Photographers“) and is now a freelancer, represented by Reportage by Getty Images, shooting for The Times in Egypt. He has photographed in the Middle East, Africa and the former Soviet republics. James Estrin spoke with him by phone early Sunday morning and early Monday morning, Cairo time.
The channel has provided exhaustive coverage of Egypt’s protests despite repeated efforts to block its broadcasts.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/world/middleeast/29jazeera.html?_r=1&hp
Other broadcasters, including CNN, said their reporters had been attacked and their cameras smashed by security forces.
The son of a Canadian photojournalist who was tortured and killed in an Iranian prison in 2003 will be allowed to proceed with a $17 million claim against the government of Iran, the Montreal Gazette has reported. Stephan Hashemi, son of the murdered phot
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/01/court-allows-son-of-slain-photojournalist-to-sue-iran.html
Stephan Hashemi, son of the murdered photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, filed suit against Iran, its supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei and two government officials who allegedly authorized the torture of Kazemi
A photographer, working for Sipa Press, is said to be among four French journalists to have been arrested, today, while covering protests in Egypt
Link: Sipa Press photographer arrested in Egypt [update 2] – British Journal of Photography
Hey photographers, have I got a bust card for you! The next time you’re stopped by an authority figure for photographing a federally owned or federally leased building, just hand the law̵…
The next time you’re stopped by an authority figure for photographing a federally owned or federally leased building, just hand the law’s agent this declassified 2010 DHS directive that unambiguously states that photographing public buildings from a public place is legal, and that harassing people for doing this is illegal, and that asking photogs to delete or hand over their images or videos is also illegal.
“Given the many reports of harassment, we encourage photographers to carry this directive with them, particularly if they intend to take pictures where they’ve had problems in the past,” said Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the N.Y.C.L.U.
When Robert Hammonds and a friend, Brent Bredwell, finished filming a DJ show at Jazid in South Beach, it was around 3 a.m. on a Sunday in September. A few minutes later, after they jumped into a car and headed down Washington Avenue, a drunk-looking driv
via Miami New Times: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-01-27/news/cops-vs-cameras-filming-cops-illegal/
“As more professionals and amateurs use equipment to record police activity, they’re facing the ire of officers who just don’t want to be recorded,” says David Ardia, director of Harvard University’s Citizen Media Law Project. “We need a clear answer from courts that this is legal, or else police officers’ instincts will always be to snatch the camera.”
Moises Saman, a Magnum photographer on assignment for The Times, was mildly injured in Tunis when police officers attacked him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/photographer-attacked-by-police-in-tunisia/
Moises Saman, a Magnum photographer on assignment to The New York Times, was mildly injured at dusk on Tuesday when he was assaulted by a group of about half a dozen police officers, David D. Kirkpatrick reports from Tunis
Joe Berlinger cannot refuse to turn over footage from his film about an oil field in Ecuador because his work was not based on independent reporting, an appellate court in Manhattan ruled.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/us/15crude.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
A federal appeals court has ruled that Joe Berlinger, a filmmaker who was ordered to hand over footage from his 2009 documentary “Crude” to the Chevron Corporation, cannot invoke a journalist’s privilege in refusing to do so because his work does not constitute an act of independent reporting.
TIME magazine’s new cover story looks at the life of Nobel Prize-winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi since Burma’s military regime released her from house arrest in November. TIME.com has a video interview with photographer Platon, who describes the lengths he and r
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/12/photographer-platon-describes-how-he-evaded-burmas-secret-police.html
The most astonishing thing about opening your first box of Kodachromes was discovering that in fact, your lenses really WERE sharp. Somehow the film was just waiting to etch those images in a way no other film could do. It was just a joy (when you didn’t screw up in the field) to open up and scan quickly through a box just back from the lab.
In Reason magazine, Radley Balko takes an in-depth look at all the places in the USA where it’s nominally illegal to record the police, and all the people who’ve faced fines or prison f…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/21/one-law-for-them-ano.html
Radley Balko takes an in-depth look at all the places in the USA where it’s nominally illegal to record the police, and all the people who’ve faced fines or prison for recording law enforcement officers breaking the law with illegal beatings and harassment
Not to minimize police harassment of photographers here in the US, but that’s nothing compared to the pain and suffering of Burmese photographers at the hands of that country’s regime. According to a report in the Burmese opposition news site Irrawaddy, a
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/12/burmese-photojournalist-gets-8-year-prison-term.html
This has been an exceptionally emotional year. Love was lost and new friends were found. People died, but they were replaced with the first breath of birth. I made mistakes and I succeeded. I sinned and was forgiven. I cried and I laughed.