I’ve spent the past week down in Ferguson, MO covering the protests and police response. What I never expect was to find myself embarrassed to photograph but it happened on Tuesday

Many reading this blog are familiar with the protests in Ferguson, Missouri over the shooting of an unarmed teenager a few weeks ago and the heavy police action with both the community and the press covering the news. Three regular contributors to this blog give their tips on dealing with spot news, often with police in a riot or crime scene.

Can photos spur not only regional outrage, but national outrage and create a transformative dialog?

I’ve recently come across two examples where good stories arguably beat out better photos as shown by the viral spread throughout social media. Do you agree?

Michael Brown offers a peace sign and white culture can’t distinguish it from a gang sign? That’s a disconnect at the most primal level

This is, after all, the game we’re now engaged in, a game photographs have become an integral part of: flood the internet with images around major events, and question any photograph that appears to not support your own position. Who is to say who is right or wrong, especially given how fast everything is moving now?

I think what I have to say and what a lot of older photographers have to say is still relevant, especially the Magnum photographers who have embraced the Magnum spirit and the Magnum approach. I think it will be forever valid because the world is only changing superficially. We still have people, human beings, and it is really about the human condition which is the main subject of Magnum photographers

Where will this lead? Well, how about embedding EEG signals in the image metadata? Allowing the image user to determine what your mental state was at the time of capture and deciding whether to use your image or not. Shouldn’t be too hard I’d imagine. Far-fetched? Well, I did a search and…….Slate carried a recent article that mentioned this very thing