Posts Tagged ‘Video’

Convergence – Should we adapt & How?

20th July, 2010

At last months branch meeting we heard from film editor Simon Ruben and photographer Edmond Terakopian who talked about how photographers could adapt their workflows to include video and audio. As well as some of the pitfalls that photographers moving to video can fall into.

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Press Freedom: Hostile Reconnaissance

15th April, 2010


Press Freedom: Hostile Reconnaissance was commissioned by the NUJ to be shown at the Hostile Reconnaissance rally organised by the London Photographers’ Branch. Video © Jason Parkinson 2010

Press Freedom: Hostile Reconnaissance highlights the continuing police surveillance of journalists documenting political dissent in the UK and follows the rise of the I’m a Photographer Not a Terrorist! campaign.

The film follows on from the 2008 film Press Freedom: Collateral Damage that exposed the extent of police surveillance on street journalists. The film includes interviews with photojournalists Marc Vallee and Jess HurdNUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear and Hickman and Rose partner Anna Mazzola. They are a few among many who continue to campaign to expose and fight the increasing erosion of civil liberties and press freedom.