Jonathan Warren: Climate Camp, the Guardian and cit-j photos
Interesting post by photographer Jonathan Warren reacting to the Guardian’s setting up of a Flickr group asking attendees of this week’s Climate Camp in London to submit photos from the event.
Warren raises a few concerns, firstly:
“If they want protesters to send them pictures for free they aren’t going to want to be too critical about the camp or actions that people from the camp might be doing. To say nothing of the veracity of the pictures that might be sent in by those opposed to its aims as well as by supporters.
“It is no longer news gathering when the subject of a story provides their own content – it is propaganda. Would you trust the Guardian if it took content supplied by the police in the same way?”
He also argues that there is some good from this as it challenges the restrictions being placed on professional photographers wanting to photograph the event.
But the Flickr group also comes at a time when freelance photographers are petitioning against a supposed ‘rights grab’ by the paper, he says.
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August 26th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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