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Subject: [Leica] FW: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos
From: tim at KairosPhoto.com (Timothy Atherton)
Date: Thu Sep 1 20:28:08 2005

if anyone is thinking of photographing in N.O.....

>From Donald Winslow at the NPPA:

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Subject: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing
Violence, Chaos
Importance: High


Full Story Online At:
http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html

Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos
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AUSTIN, TX (September 1, 2005) ? As photojournalists continue to document
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?s violent assault on the Gulf Coast,
today they also found themselves documenting new violence and death among
the survivors, the refugees, and the looters and police and rescuers in New
Orleans, while some photojournalists even fell victim to the violence
themselves.

Two veteran photojournalists - NPPA member Rick Wilking of Reuters and
Getty's Mark Wilson - were robbed of cameras and computer equipment today
while on assignment in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and a photojournalist
and a reporter were confronted at gunpoint and slammed against a wall by
police following a shoot-out between looters and cops that left at least one
person dead.

Another photojournalist - Lucas Oleniuk of the Toronto Star - was knocked to
the ground by police, his gear taken from him initially, when he
photographed them shooting at looters and then beating one. A New York Times
photojournalist and Times-Picayune reporter Gordon Russell were slammed into
a wall by police at gunpoint after they witnessed a shoot-out between cops
and looters that left at least one person dead.

In response to the growing violence and an increasing sense of despair among
the stranded survivors, some television networks have hired armed private
security firms to protect their journalists as they work to cover the story.

Full Story Online At:
http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html


Replies: Reply from scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin) ([Leica] FW: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos)