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Solidarity with Egyptian Photographers

21st March, 2011

LPB Branch Secretary Jason Parkinson presents money raised from UK photographers to the family (centre) of Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, a photographer who was killed by a police sniper during the Egyptian Revolution. Abeer Saady (right) is from the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate.

Article by Jess Hurd/jesshurd.co.uk

 

On a follow-up trip to Cairo, myself and Branch Secretary Jason Parkinson had a very emotional meeting with Mrs Anas, the wife of press photographer Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud who was killed by a police sniper during the Egyptian Revolution.

Ahmed’s last photograph was an image of his killer taken just before he was shot in the face. His wife hopes that this evidence will bring his murderer to justice, with the support of his trade union, the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate.

We delivered the money raised at the Battle for Cairo cinema event that the branch organised jointly with the BPPA, which featured the work of UK photographers and video journalists who covered the first 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution.

Mrs Anas and her daughter were very touched by the donation from her British colleagues and will use it to set up a photography award in Ahmed’s memory which will run every year on 25th January.

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Brutalized, then Betrayed

4th March, 2011

By Joan Connell – Republished by kind permission of Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

The sexual assault endured by CBS correspondent Lara Logan in the chaos of Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Feb. 11‚ reported in a brief statement by her employer, brings to the forefront what has been a largely private conversation among female war correspondents about the distinct hazards they face.

The subsequent coverage of Logan’s ordeal also raises two key concerns for news organizations: How does any high-profile story of sexual assault get told? What are the responsibilities of news organizations when a journalist who has been sexually assaulted in the line of duty returns home?

“Women have risen to the top of war and foreign reportage,” writes Judith Matloff, a former correspondent for Reuters and the Christian Science Monitor, now a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. “They run bureaus in dodgy places and do jobs that are just as dangerous as those that men do. But there is one area where they differ from the boys‚ sexual harassment and rape.”

“Female reporters are targets in lawless places where guns are common and punishment rare,” says Matloff, who has written extensively on the challenges faced by women reporters, including the first major article on sexual harassment and assault among female war correspondents.

Evidence suggests that the need to be perceived as a full player in the highly competitive and mostly male world of conflict reporting has led many victims of sexual assault to keep silent. In fact, a 2005 study of female war reporters by the International News Safety Institute revealed that 82 percent of respondents reported physical attack or intimidation while covering conflict and more than 55 percent reported sexual harassment or abuse.

A series of dismissive Tweets about Logan by foreign correspondent and author Nir Rosen‚ which led to Rosen’s resignation from a New York University fellowship‚ suggests why the broader issue of sexual assault on assignment has been so difficult to discuss.

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The Egyptian Revolution Film and Photo Night

15th February, 2011

Photo (c) Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk – Design Jason N. Parkinson

After covering the first 18-days of the Egyptian revolution, many UK photographers and video journalists have returned to London and will be screening their work in a special one night event, organised by the London Photographers’ Branch (LPB) and the British Press Photographers Association (BPPA), at the Shortwave Cinema on  Tuesday 1 March 2011.

Starting at 8pm the evening will show video and photographs covering the extraordinary events that unravelled during the popular uprising against President Hosni Mubarak and his regime. There will also be a question-and-answer discussion with the photographers and video journalists who covered the uprising.

Entry is by donation and there will be a raffle to win selected prints donated by the photographers. All profits will go to the Egyptian journalist support fund.

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