Category: Access & Censorship
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Starbucks Tries Social Media on Flickr, Fails, Locks Down All Discussion Threads to Silence Their Critics | Thomas Hawk
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/01/starbucks-tries-social-media-on-flickr-fails-locks-down-all-discussion-threads-to-silence-their-critics.html
The question about whether or not photography is or is not allowed in Starbucks stores still seems very much in the air, and from the request that photographers now check back with the group in the “months” ahead (after having this issue linger since September of last year) it doesn’t sound like they will be resolving this question anytime soon.
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Mall security guard accuses shopper of being a paedophile for photographing his own son Boing Boing
Outside of the mall, Kevin was stopped by a police constable who had received a complaint from mall security that a suspicious potential paedophile had been taking pictures on its premises. The PC threatened to arrest Kevin “for creating a public disturbance” and ordered him to delete the photo of his son.
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No Handouts : CJR
No Handouts
White House photographers bridle at restricted access
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/no_handouts.php
The Obama administration has barred independent photographers from a wide variety of events both potentially controversial and anodyne, ranging from yesterday’s abortion order signing, to the president’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, to his retaking of the flubbed oath of office, to bill signing ceremonies honoring female pilots in World War Two and promoting foreign travel to the United States.
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Police in Bangladesh Close Photo Exhibit – Lens
Police in Bangladesh Close Photo Exhibit
Shahidul Alam had hoped his exhibit on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh would provoke a reaction. As David Gonzalez reports, it did.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/behind-39/
Shahidul Alam had hoped his “Crossfire” exhibit on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh would “shock people out of their comfort zone’ and provoke a response.
He got his wish.
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Police raid offices of JMU's paper, seize 900 photos | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha L. Garst, armed with a search warrant and accompanied by the officers, showed up unannounced about 10:30 a.m., said Katie Thisdell, editor-in-chief of The Breeze.
“She said if you don’t release all of them, we are prepared to take everything out of this office — all the computers, the cameras, documents, everything,” Thisdell said last night -
Lantern photographer cuffed, detained
When two cows got loose last Wednesday, Lantern photographer Alex Kotran hustled to his room in Lincoln Tower. He had heard about the commotion, grabbed his professional camera gear and ran to the athletic fields next to Lincoln Tower.
Within two hours, Ohio State Police had caught the cows – and Kotran. He was detained, handcuffed and is facing a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespass. -
The Oil Spill Story Finally Hits Home
Associated Press photographer Charlie Riedel’s up-close images of brown pelicans soaked in oil finally brought home the effects of the Gulf oil spill catastrophe last week. They showed scenes that photographers have had much difficulty documenting, not only because of the location of the spill, but because BP and government officials have worked to keep the spill’s consequences out of sight—and out of mind.
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New Rule Blocks Press From Covering Spill
Obama admin bans press from filming BP oil spill areas in the Gulf
CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses how the Obama administration is limiting access by the media to areas affected by the BP Macondo well spill.
via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/WpJBsjKhRTo&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0
A new rule went into effect last Thursday that bars journalists, reporters and photographers from getting within 65 feet of the oil-soaked beaches, wildlife and booms in the Louisiana Gulf.
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Home Office reviews photography rights in anti-terror law rewrite – British Journal of Photography
A new camcorder from Sony lets movie-makers use SLR lenses to shoot pro-level footage for just $2,000. The NEX-VG10 uses the same APS-C sensor as the NEX mirrorless line-up, and also uses their E lens-mount, Sony’s equivalent of the compact micro-four-thirds format. With an adapter, you can also use any of Sony’s Alpha mount lenses.
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Commentary: For reporters, the rules at Guantanamo change daily | McClatchy
Guantanamo’s Camp Justice is a place where you can sit at your laptop or by your phone only if there’s a member of the military within earshot.
It’s a place where you can go to court only in the custody of a military public affairs officer. Inside, if there’s only one escort — this happened recently — and somebody has to go to the bathroom, every reporter has to leave court, too.
It’s a place where a soldier stands over your shoulder, looks in your viewfinder and says ‘Don’t take that picture, I’ll delete it.’
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Picturing War's Wounded and Dead – NYTimes.com
Picturing War’s Wounded and Dead
There is no telling how people will react to realistic images and written reports that show war for what it is. But such images do serve a purpose.
via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/picturing-wars-wounded-and-dead/
“For centuries pictures of the dead and wounded have been part and parcel of war communications. Often the intentions were clear, ranging from medical instruction to anti-war protests. The public’s response could coincide with or diverge from the publisher’s intention.”
Anyone who has survived or covered a conflict, and interacted with the people who have suffered grievously from war, would recognize the ringing truth in the third sentence of this statement, which opens the preface to an article in an issue this summer in the journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival.
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Kuwait bans DSLR use by non-journalists | dvafoto
I currently live in Moscow. It’s a huge metropolis. Living here you get used to people, speed, vanity, the subway… Do you know that the subway is a whole individual city of people inside Moscow? And when you come to any village in the north of Russia, like Kenozero, you meet the silence. There, you meet amazing people, you are surrounded by the beauty of nature, and you just shoot the first picture and that’s it. You see to it that you will come back there again and again. You listen to these people, their stories, their dreams and you need nothing else. For me, it just happened that way.
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Egyptian army cracks down on photographers [update] – British Journal of Photography
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.