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This iPhone shortcut blurs faces and strips metadata from photos

Jun 10, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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Should you blur people’s faces when covering protests o should you not? This has been a heated debate lately, and opinions are largely different. But if you’re in the “blur the faces” team and you use an iPhone, now there’s a simple way to do it. A new shortcut lets you blur faces and strip all metadata from images in just one tap.

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Leica Store in Soho looted in New York protests

Jun 2, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 16 Comments
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During Sunday’s protests in New York city, luxury stores were ransacked, and Leica Store SoHo was among them. The store had its windows smashed and a lot of gear was stolen. According to witnesses, this looting could have been organized, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the protests that have been happening across the US.

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Photojournalist arrested and shot with rubber bullets while covering Minneapolis protests

Jun 2, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 12 Comments
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As protests are raging on across the US, another photographer got hurt and arrested for covering them. Veteran WCCO Photographer Tom Aviles was shot with a rubber bullet and arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest this Saturday. He managed to capture the entire incident on camera, and he even filmed a video from inside the back of the police van.

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Iconic Central Camera Company goes up in flames during Chicago protests

Jun 1, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 3 Comments
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Central Camera Company, an iconic camera store in Chicago, was damaged in fire on Saturday night. The two-alarm fire broke out during a protest, one of those that have been raging across the US over the death of George Floyd.

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Photojournalist permanently blinded by rubber bullet while covering Minneapolis protests

Jun 1, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 33 Comments
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After the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week, protests have developed across the United States. While covering the street protest in Minneapolis on Friday, photojournalist Linda Tirado was shot in the left eye. She was reportedly shot with a rubber bullet, but sadly, her eye could not have been saved.

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Sony World Photography Awards accused of censorship after removing Hong Kong protests images

Feb 20, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA) recently announced finalists and shortlists of its annual contest. However, some images of Hong Kong protests have been removed due to their alleged “sensitive nature.” This has caused a backlash in the community, accusing competition organizers of censorship.

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National Archives caught editing photo to remove anti-Trump message

Jan 20, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 16 Comments
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The National Archives recently came under fire for doctoring an image to hide an anti-Trump message. Its ongoing exhibition Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote greets the visitors with a large photo from the Women’s March on 21 January 2017. However, the closer look reveals that the photo was edited, blurring out the signs with anti-Trump messages.

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Photojournalist found dead and her gear stolen after covering anti-government protests in Chile

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Photojournalist Albertina Martínez was found dead in her apartment in Santiago, Chile in November 2019. She covered the anti-government protests two days before, but her camera, laptop, and phone were missing. This is why it has been speculated that her death is connected to her photographing the protests.

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Charlie Cole, Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” photographer, dies at 64

Sep 13, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 3 Comments
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Charlie Cole, one of “Tank Man” Tiananmen Square photographers, has died in his home in Bali. He was one of four photographers who covered the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and his photo of the “Tank Man” brought him the World Press Photography Award.

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The photo “debunking” protest fires in Paris is actually fake

Dec 13, 2018 by Dunja Djudjic 9 Comments
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A few days ago, a photo “debunking” protest fires in Paris appeared on Twitter and it quickly went viral. It shows two images side-by-side “proving” that the fire was actually harmless, but only shot from a low angle so it appears huge. However, when this “fact checker” was fact checked, it turned out that it was actually fake: reportedly , the two photos weren’t only taken on different days, but also in different parts of the city.

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