From First Photos Published Under New Pentagon Policy on War Dead:
“The military takes it incredibly seriously,” says Joshua Roberts, a freelance photographer based in Washington who covered the transfer for Reuters. “It’s a very formal, very respectful transfer… Hiding it is not really a good thing. It’s good to show it.”
On its draft agenda for Monday, April 6 at 6 p.m., committee has a proposed resolution to require any person wishing to photograph, videotape or make an audio recording of any Township Committee meeting to get prior permission from the mayor or his designated representative.
Yesterday’s remix challenge — to mock the ridiculous new “anti-terrorism” posters the London police have put up that tell you to spy on your neighbors — was a smashing success.
Bob Woolley recently was detained by security guards at the Cannery Casino in North Las Vegas after taking photographs in their casino.
Special Notice: Photography, recording, webcasting and any other reproduction of Vice President Al Gore’s speaking appearance is strictly prohibited.
Coldplay has been accused of grabbing the rights to photographs taken during its concerts, BJP has learnt, pushing photographers to offer an alternative to music industry contracts.
I found this explanation of the three song rule for live music photographers interesting and if you read the rest of the interview you’ll see how he’s recently got out of it. Photo editor Nicole Radja interviews Chicago music photographer Paul Natkin on her blog called“In Studio On Location.”
An angry and visibly intoxicated Dalai Lama was arrested early this morning after assaulting a photographer outside the newly revamped Studio 54 discotheque in Manhattan.
Over the weekend I had an opportunity to participate in a broadcast on KPFK radio in Los Angeles about the war on photography. The broadcast was part of Ric Allan and Doran Barons’ weekly radio show Digital Village
As soon as I snapped the photo above, a guard rushed over to admonish me that photography is not allowed in the show. “I’m not using a flash,” I replied. “Is that OK?” Nope, came the reply. “Must I obey?” I asked. “Yes,” she answered, missing or — more likely — ignoring my too-cute-by-half reference to Fairey’s trademark street-and-clothing campaign about authoritarian imagery, dubbed “Obey Giant.”
I received an interesting email yesterday from a business traveler who wanted to remain anonymous regarding a recent run in that he had with Air France Airlines and taking photographs aboard one of their flights.
I agree with efforts to lift the ban on photographs of returning fallen servicemen and women. Nothing says more of the sacrifice they and their families have made than that.
“The cop wanted my ID, and I showed it to him,” Mr. Taylor said. “He told me I couldn’t take the pictures. I told him that’s not true, that the rules permitted it. He said I was wrong. I said, ‘I’m willing to bet your paycheck.’ ”
Mr. Taylor was right. The officer was enforcing a nonexistent rule. And if recent experience is any guide, one paycheck won’t come close to covering what a wrongful arrest in this kind of case could cost the taxpayers.
Under an idiotic new law, photographers in the UK can be stopped and their cameras, memory cards and film seized:
Just last week, President Obama was asked at a news conference if he would allow coverage of the flag-draped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware “so the American people can see the full human cost of war.”
The Defense Department is again reviewing its policy that prohibits the news media from photographing flag-draped coffins of war dead returning to U.S. soil.
