Category: Access & Censorship

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A manager for G4S, a security firm, has said that security guards working to protect the Olympic site in London are trained to deter people from taking photographs, it has been claimed

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Nikon has been forced to reopen a controversial exhibition on Korean comfort women in Japan after a judge found in favour of the photographer

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Press photographers, backed by the National Union of Journalists, are calling for a boycott of the Stone Roses reunion concerts in protest of rights-grabbing photography rules

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Know when to back off. It’s all well and good to quote case law and scream about your rights (and believe me, I’ve seen plenty of photographers whip out these old chestnuts,) but at some point it’s not going to be enough and you’ll be faced with having to either keep shooting knowing you face arrest, or to back off and reassess from another angle. Understand that if you’re arrested, you’re not going to get your photos out. In the event that you are arrested, make sure you’ve got a complete list of your gear and their serial numbers, and carry enough cash to post bail.

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I’m not sure what we gain by keeping these deaths obscured from view. If anything, it can leave us with the unreal sense that life is somehow free of fatal consequence.

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Despite the TSA admitting on its own website that there is no law which prevents people from filming TSA checkpoints, a man traveling through San Juan airport in Puerto Rico had his camera confiscated and footage deleted.

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“It’s not unusual, particularly in a police standoff, for police to ask television in particular to be very careful in their live coverage,” Poynter’s Al Tompkins told me in a phone call. “But this idea of Twitter coverage is a new wrinkle.”