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)…
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Mall security guard accuses shopper of being a paedophile for photographing his own son Boing Boing
Link: 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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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.…
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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,…
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Police raid offices of JMU's paper, seize 900 photos | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Link: 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,…
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Lantern photographer cuffed, detained
Link: 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…
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PDNPulse: LA Photographer Cleared of Criminal Charges
Link: The LAPD has still refused to return Jonas Lara’s camera equipment despite the judge’s order. When Lara went to the police station to retrieve his equipment the police were “really pissed off,” he says, and attempted to question him further about the February 2 incident.
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The Oil Spill Story Finally Hits Home
Link: 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…
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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…
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Home Office reviews photography rights in anti-terror law rewrite – British Journal of Photography
Link: 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…
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NYPD Press Credential Rule Changes Include NPPA's Suggestions
Link: Here is part two of the interview with Mugur Vărzariu who embodies the definition of a compassionate photographer: “I only press the shutter release when I can help my subjects.”
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Commentary: For reporters, the rules at Guantanamo change daily | McClatchy
Link: 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…
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AP will not distribute images of proposed Koran burning | dvafoto
Link: The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit British organization that is working with WikiLeaks on the documents.
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Thoughts of a Bohemian » Under the carpet
Link: Sports photography is big business and shows no sign of slowing down. Getty images is on the path to controlling every image that you will see coming out of a US sports competition, and everything around it. ( remember, Tiger Woods first public appearance ?)
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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…
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The Transformation Of Pathology Into Pathos Or The Military Does What It Does And It Does It We « The Spinning Head
Link: What confuses me is the thought behind the video and comments: Michael Kamber is surprised that a system meticulously designed to censor the likes of him, is…..censoring him. Isn’t this precisely what this system is designed to do?
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Kuwait bans DSLR use by non-journalists | dvafoto
Link: 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,…
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Egyptian army cracks down on photographers [update] – British Journal of Photography
Link: 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…
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INSI Advisory – News crews in Egypt facing increasing threats to their safety
Link: News crews covering the violent clashes in Egypt are facing increased threats to their safety, amid reports that a growing number are being targeted by protesters loyal to President Hosni Mubarak, angry at the foreign media’s coverage of the situation in the country.