Re: [Leica] Street photography

["Bob Walkden" <bobwalkden@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

the Sky crew were very clearly labelled as Sky crew, therefore not freelance 
(as far as the demonstrators were concerned), and they were seen to 
represent the Murdoch empire, which is probably hated as much as, if not 
more than, McDonalds.

I take your point about 'independent media' as opposed to 'freelance 
journalist' though. Much better than saying 'amateur photographer', which 
sounds as though you missed your way and should be on a railway platform 
somewhere in the north, photographing steam trains!

Cheers,

Bob

>From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com>

> >
> > 'Freelance journalist' is a fairly safe thing to say.
>
>See, I think that's not true in these anti-corporate demos which is why I
>used the phrase 'independent media'. On the Mayday demo a Sky crew was
>attacked in MacDonalds. They left the photographers alone mainly but I got
>one or two warnings to point my lenses elsewhere.
>
>The problem is that 'Freelance journalist' has TWO words in it which will
>get their goat:
>
>     freelance = lackey of whichever capitalist is currently paying you to
>misrepresent the truth. It also tells them you are on your own.
>
>     journalist = running dog of the mainstream media which as everyone 
>knows
>are all owned by sinister corporations and give pictures of rioters to the
>police
>
>Independent Media has the strong implication (check the search engines) of
>independent v. capitalist.
>
>I also happen to think it more accurately describes what i do personally,
>since no-one pays me and I don't sell pictures to the newspapers, but 
>that's
>by-the-by.
>
>NB If you say independent media also they can't say 'which one' because the
>indy media are deliberately fragmented and disparate. If you say
>'indymedia.com' you are pretty safe as anyone can post reports to their
>site.

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