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The Demotix Revolution
1 February 2010I got an interesting email the other day asking if Demotix is good for distributing work - the short answer: No. If you haven't heard of it yet, Demotix is a citizen reporting/freelance photography agency. Taking an industry standard 50% cut of image sales, they say they broker images to media buyers worldwide.
The Journalist Hustings
8 October 2009Candidates divided over how to take magazine online and charging for it Last night seven of the eight candidates for the next editor of the NUJ’s magazine the Journalist were at hustings hosted by London Press & PR Branch at the NUJ’s head office in Kings Cross. Each candidate was first given five minutes to introduce themselves [...]
Climate Camp: An Open Letter
31 August 2009What happened Yesterday afternoon as my colleague Marc Vallée and I were leaving Climate Camp we found a group of people arguing around the SWP stall that was selling newspapers and leaflets outside the entrance to the camp. As we went in to take photographs the group arguing with the SWP quickly turned their attention to us, [...]
Climate Camp: Code of Conduct
27 August 2009As Climate Camp set up on Blackheath in south London yesterday I got hold of a copy of the code of conduct that journalists will be asked to sign if they want to stay on the camp outside of media hours (10am-6pm) and it makes for fascinating reading. Most of it reinforces the camp’s existing media [...]
Climate Camp: Give it up for the Guardian!
26 August 2009The Guardian has set up a Flickr group asking people who are attending the Climate Camp this week in South London to send in their pictures from inside the camp: Please share your photographs with this groups [sic] as events unfold. We’ll feature some of our favourites on guardian.co.uk and maybe in the newspaper version of [...]
Climate Camp: No Out of Hours Access
25 August 2009Later this week hundreds of activists will be swooping on an undisclosed location (most probably in East London) and setting up Climate Camp for another year. And like previous years there are restrictions on reporting. In the past the media rules included black-listing journalists who had given the camp ‘hostile coverage‘ and giving ‘sympathetic’ press and radio [...]
I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist!
4 August 2009I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! is a new campaign group set up by photographers who are fed up with the restrictions photographers face while working on the streets or, in some cases, even fields. We will fight back against the use of terrorism legislation against photographers and the abuse by the police of stop & [...]
NUJ London Photographers Branch Meeting
15 July 2009Photographers are under attack – job losses in local and national media, picture rate cuts and police repression on the streets. It’s time for photographers to come together and plan and build the best way to defend our profession. London photographers are meeting on Thursday 16 July 2009 at 6.30pm at Headland House to start [...]
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 [...]