BBC Wednesday August 21, 2024
A UK photojournalist is resisting demands by police to hand over images he made while covering riots in Rotherham, England, where a mob attacked a hotel accommodating asylum seekers. The journalist, freelancer Joel Goodman, said he feared that turning over the image could put him and other colleagues in danger and infringe media freedom, notes the BBC. “Journalists must not be seen to be police officers. We must not be seen to be acting on behalf of the police. It’s a fundamental trust issue,” Goodman said. See also: PetaPixel.
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KICKSTARTER Wednesday August 21, 2024
“When I lived in the Arkansas Delta in the early 1970s I thought of myself as a social worker with a camera. When I took to wandering the streets of my hometown of Dorchester, Massachusetts, in the mid ’70s I thought of myself as a street photographer. From the ’80s on, being called a photojournalist made me feel that I was a part of the world of truth seekers.” So notes the photographer Eugene Richards at Kickstarter, where he’s launching his book Do You Know, a collection of 24 photographic and textual stories that, says Richards, “speak of America.”
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FotoEvidence Wednesday August 21, 2024
The FotoEvidence Association is partnering with The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers to develop a 3-year program that will support the Ukrainian photo community and contribute to the preservation and restoration of Ukrainian history and culture through photography books documenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2014. The program, called FotoEvidence Ukraine, is supported by the Open Society Foundations and the Renaissance Foundation.
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David Schonauer Wednesday August 21, 2024
You may have ordered a dirty martini to enhance an evening, but have you ever used the 'dirty foreground' trick to enhance your photography? Possibly, though like YouTuber Juston Mott you may not have
called it that. As Mott explains in a recent video, the technique involves strategically placing elements in front of your camera to create an out-of-focus foreground layer. "This isn't just … Read the full Story >>
