Category: Business & Industry

Criminalizing Photography

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin has an interview with Mickey Osterreicher about the increase in arrests of photographers around the United States. Osterreicher, who is the National Press Photographers Association’s attorney, has this advice for photojournalists working in tense situations: If you’re stopped on the street, stay calm. Be reasonable, be cooperative — as cooperative...

Time and Sports Illustrated Turn to Instagram

Two stalwarts of high-quality photojournalism are … turning to Instagram? Yep. Sports Illustrated will have a Leading Off page in the next issue of photos shot by regular contributor Brad Mangin with his smartphone and processed through the social photo network app. It’s a collection of images he made during this baseball season. Time, on the other hand, is working...