Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122102253.html?wprss=rss_world
Prominent Iranian director Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from making films, writing scripts, giving interviews and traveling abroad for the coming 20 years
The dangerous life of a political reporter in Russia.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/opinion/12Kashin.html?_r=1
A month later, I am still in the hospital. One of my fingers has been amputated, one of my legs and both halves of my jaw have been broken, and I have several cranial wounds. According to my doctors, I won’t be able to go back to my job as a reporter and columnist at Kommersant, an independent newspaper, until spring.
A photographer who was severely assaulted by a police officer in an unprovoked attack has accepted an out of court settlement of £30,000.
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Met cough up for unprovoked attack
He needs your help, and a wealth of information to help you do so can be found at the Free Go Facebook Page. You will find contact information for the Embassy of Japan in Cambodia as well as the Cambodian Embassy.
Link: APhotoADay Blog » Blog Archive » Go Takayama imprisoned in Cambodia – How you can help.
The distribution and publication of photos of dead servicemen and women can be controversial because some people feel it disrespectful. Others feel such images reflect the realities of combat.
The first news reports from WikiLeaks’ long-expected disclosure of a quarter-million State Department diplomatic cables appeared on major newspaper websites on Sunday, though WikiLeaks’ own website was unavailable, purportedly due to a traffic-flooding cyberattack.
A former photographer for The Times-Picayune (Alex Brandon) witnessed a “contentious situation” between three men and police officers after Hurricane Katrina, telling a federal jury Wednesday that he was ordered by police not to snap pictures of the scene.
Link: News photographer says cops asked him not to take pictures the day Henry Glover died | NOLA.com
Martin Broughton, the chairman of British Airways, has called on Britain’s aviation industry to stop “kowtowing” to the USA’s ridiculous and inconsistent aviation “sec…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/26/british-airways-chai.html
He suggested the practice of forcing passengers on US-bound flights to take off their shoes and to have their laptops checked separately in security lines should be dropped
‘I never talk to them… I don’t ask their permission. I don’t pay them… And eventually…I got into trouble’ – Philip-Lorca DiCorcia I’ve been thi…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/philip-lorca-dicorcia-on-shooting-in-public/
‘I never talk to them… I don’t ask their permission. I don’t pay them… And eventually…I got into trouble’
Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them
Link: Strictly No Photography
via: Duncan Davidson
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102201682.html?wprss=rss_world
A massive cache of secret U.S. field reports from the Iraq war provides grim new details about the toll of that conflict, indicating that more than 100,000 Iraqis were killed during a six-year stretch and that American forces often failed to intervene as the U.S.-backed government brutalized detainees, according to news organizations given access to the documents by the WikiLeaks Web site.
The right of photographers to stand in a public place and take pictures of federal buildings has been upheld by a legal settlement reached in New York.
Thinking about 9/11:
Would Americans have reacted less violently to our most disturbing day if we’d been allowed to see photographs of its most disturbing aspects?
Private security guards handcuffed and detained a journalist who tried to ask U.S. Senate Republican candidate Joe Miller questions at a campaign event in Alaska. The guards claim that he was tresp…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/18/senate-candidates-pr.html
“I’ve had nightmares these days,” Mr. Reygadas said from the cramped tent, as reporters jostled for space. “But the worst nightmare is all of you.”
With no cameras allowed in court, reporters tapped out instant updates as readers followed every word.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/nyregion/16cheshire.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
No television cameras were there to record the scene, but people around the state and beyond in offices and family rooms still followed every word. The medium? Twitter. Half a dozen reporters for mainstream Connecticut newspapers and television stations clicked out reports of up to 140 characters on iPads, smart phones and laptops.