Photography is Not a Crime

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• 1 Hossam // Jan 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM

  Interesting blog you have here.. I invite you to check out the photographers demo against police brutality in Egypt here:
  http://tinyurl.com/d8vyr8

• 2 Carlos Miller // Jan 25, 2009 at 6:37 PM

  Hossam,

  Interesting photos. What’s the story behind them?

• 3 Hossam // Jan 25, 2009 at 6:55 PM

  We’ve been suffering a lot lately with systematic police crackdowns on photographers and journalists covering protests.. The police go after our cameras, break the lenses, and/or confiscate memory cards
  You can check out also this report…
  http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=19331
  So I urge you to keep an eye on Egypt, coz we need international solidarity from our colleagues in the US and elsewhere..

• 4 Carlos Miller // Jan 25, 2009 at 6:57 PM

  Thanks for the link. I’ll post something tonight about this.

  And keep me posted on further developments in Egypt.

  Good luck.

• 5 Hossam // Jan 25, 2009 at 7:01 PM

  Cheers Carlos.. I discovered your blog recently, and became fond of it.. I hope you’ll honor my blog with regular visits to stay updated with news about photography and dissent out of Egypt..
  Solidarity..

• 6 Carlos Miller // Jan 25, 2009 at 7:12 PM

  I just added a new “international blog” category and you’re the first one added to it.

  I am noticing that I have a significant international readership, and the issue of photographers and journalists getting harassed is not limited to the U.S.

  I will adding to this blog category. If anybody has any suggestions for international blogs that focus on photojournalism or photographer’s rights, please let me know.

• 7 Rod MacPherson // Jan 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM

  Please don’t use locally well known, but not globally well known acronyms online without giving at least a hint of what they are about.

  People who are not from the Bay Area don’t know BART = Bay Area Rapid Transit.
  Don’t make your readers leave your site to look up what it is you are talking about. At least throw a hint like “transit cops” in there.

  Would you be able to follow it if I was talking about TTC cops or HSR cops?

• 8 Carlos Miller // Jan 28, 2009 at 11:03 AM

  Rod,

  You’re absolutely right, which is why I did specify what BART stood for in the initial article I wrote on this.

  Read the second paragraph and then read the last two paragraphs.

  http://carlosmiller.com/2009/01/06/bart-police-shoot-unarmed-man-caught-on-citizen-video/

  But I will try to remember to include that information in all future posts.

• 9 Rod MacPherson // Jan 28, 2009 at 11:56 AM

  I don’t mean to pick on you. I just was frustrated by an online newspaper article that did the same, I remembered your blog had talked about BART officers, and thought I’d read here some explanation, but when I checked back I couldn’t see it.

  I sent a bit more angry letter to the Huffington Post as they ought to know better, and need to realize that they are addressing a global market when posting the stories online, so they need to adjust their writing style to accommodate that.

• 10 Carlos Miller // Jan 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM

  Rod,

  Most news articles neglected to explain what BART was, which is the reason I did so in my original article.

  But then I guess I fell into the same trap as the newspapers where they assume everybody knows what they’re talking about, so you served as a reminder that this was not the case.

  So I didn’t take it as picking on me at all but as honest feedback from a reader.

  Thanks.

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