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The BBC Viewfinder
29 May 2009Earlier this month the BBC News Picture Editor Phil Coomes joined the ever growing ranks of BBC bloggers with his own: Viewfinder The blog sets out to discuss photography on the BBC News website and more widely on the subject of photojournalism and photography. Coomes himself is a photographer, studying at the BA Photography course at the [...]
Journalists and their sources mini-conference
27 May 2009Last night Suzanne Breen, Northern Ireland Editor of the (Dublin) Sunday Tribune, flew in to the NUJ headqaurters on Grays Inn Road to talk to members about the case being brought against her by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) under the Terrorism Act (2000) to reveal her sources in the Real IRA. Also speaking [...]
“Who’s a Journalist, Who isn’t?”
22 May 2009On Monday Commander Broadhurst, head of public order at the Metropolitan Police spoke at the NUJ Photographers Conference and with all the events over the past few years he received a rather frosty response from those there. The Commander was heckled off the platform as he began to question the legitimacy of those carrying press cards. He asked in [...]
Police grab photographers on Tamil protests
20 May 2009For the second time in a week Police grabbed a press photographer from the ongoing Tamil protests outside Parliament. Last Monday Chief EPA Photographer Andy Rain was grabbed by two senior officers as police were attempting to remove the protesters from the road and escorted him away from the protest. On Monday they went one step further [...]
LA Stories: 7th Street
21 January 2009When I went down to 7th and Olympic in West Los Angeles I was looking for a guy I’d heard gave food to the homeless there every afternoon. I was going to see if he could give me any leads on people living in their cars. He wasn’t there that day but Charles and his [...]
LA Stories: No On 8
23 December 2008A month or so ago I travelled to Los Angeles for 3 weeks to photograph stories around the recession, as well as any other stories I came across while I was out there. Over the next few weeks I’ll be blogging the different stories I shot. This first instalment is from the Prop 8 protests that started [...]
So it goes
10 December 2008Yesterday saw the last day that the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights took evidence on the committee looking into Policing and Protest. Vernon Coker, the minister for Policing, Crime and Security was questioned by MPs and you can listen to his evidence here. He gives assurances that after meeting with the NUJ in October new and revised guidance [...]
Brighton Revisited
16 October 2008Yesterday the Brighton based group SmashEDO held a protest against the arms manufacturer EDO MBM whose factory is based in Moulescoomb just outside of Brighton. Past protests outside the factory have been violent, with protesters getting inside the compound, smashing windows and entering the factory. This time was no different, with arrests taking place before the march [...]
Collateral Damage
10 September 2008This isn’t over-zealous policing this is a co-ordinated and systematic abuse of media freedom. Jeremy Dear, General Secretary - NUJ Those the words of Jeremy Dear, addressing the TUC in Brighton this week. His speech was in support of a motion expressing concerns over civil liberties, specifically the use of counter-terrorism laws and SOCPA against protesters and campaigners. Also [...]
If you go down to the woods today…
30 August 2008So far there has been little photography from inside the Olympic site, a deliberate policy made by the PR people at the Olympic Deliver Authority (ODA) not to allow any independent journalists onto the site, absolutely terrified of any negative coverage it might create.