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"Gun attack" cop walks free

A former royal bodyguard who held a gun to a freelance photographer’s head after pursuing him in a car chase has walked free from court.

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Police sued over stolen cameras

A press photographer is to sue Northumbria Police Force for false arrest after being cleared of obstructing an officer reports Press Gazette

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Robbers target Calumet warehouse

Calumet’s UK headquarters was targeted in what police are describing as a “high-value” raid last weekend.

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Goldin photo seized by UK police

A photograph by artist Nan Goldin has been seized by UK police after a complaint that it depicts child pornography reports The Times

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Police 'manipulated' Menezes pic

Police have been accused of manipulating a photo of Jean Charles de Menezes so it could be compared to that of one of the 21/7 bombers reports the BBC.

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Plod prevents pics of Postman Pat

A Suffolk photographer was prevented by police from taking pictures at a Christmas lights switch on reports Amateur Photographer.

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Trial set for Nottingham photographer

A trial date has been set for a Nottingham photographer, who is accused of obstructing a police officer while doing his job. Alan Lodge – a freelance photographer and NUJ member – appeared before Nottingham Magistrates today for a pre-trial review.

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CPS ordered to hand over photographs as Lodge trial adjourned

The Crown Prosecution Service was today given 21 days to hand over potential evidence to a Nottingham freelance arrested while photographing a police operation.

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Police contradictions over 'journalists database' spark NUJ complaint

Solicitors acting for the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) are to make a formal complaint to the Data Commissioner over the failure of the Met police to provide details under the Data Protection Act of their surveillance of journalists.

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Nottingham photographer found guilty of police obstruction

A Nottingham photographer who helped draft the guidelines used by the police for dealing with the press has been found guilty of obstructing a police officer while photographing an armed incident.

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Thousands of people produce parodies every day...but what if some of them are pretty funny ?

Angry at the Metropolitan Police’s advertising campaign ? Then try one of these instead…

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Injured photographer wins settlement, costs and apology from Met Police

A photographer who was badly injured following police action during a demonstration in Parliament Square in October 2006 has agreed an out of court-settlement from the Metropolitan Police Service.

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Police snapper "defrauded £120k"

A photographer is accused of defrauding the Police Service of Northern Ireland out of more than £120,000 in overtime and mileage claims, reports the BBC

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Who’s afraid of photographers? seminar

A seminar at the House of Commons on Thursday, October 28 will examine the persistent problem of police hindrance of photographers, as well the wider issue of encroaching privacy law.

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NUJ's Dear in Scotland Yard protest

Updated: Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists has held a lone protest at New Scotland Yard to protest against the increasing restrictions of press photography in the capital and what the union describes as the failure of law enforcement officers to protect media freedoms.

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Police reveal 'sex offender' picture

Interpol have released a photograph of a suspected sex offender after police managed to undo Photoshop actions designed to obscure the man’s identity.

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Tear-gas rains on firefighters – David Brabyn, 2004

Tear-gas rains on firefighters – David Brabyn, 2004
Photographer since 2004, EPUk member since 2004

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Red faces for police over IPTC cock-up

Lothian and Borders Police had to move quickly to defuse an embarrassing situation after inadvertently revealing the names of photographers whose work they are using to trace individuals involved in the Edinburgh G8 riots in July.

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Masked protester attacks policeman, London - Jules Mattsson, 2011

I’ve always been interested in documenting political news, and have photographed protest movements in the UK and elsewhere since before I became professional in 2010.

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Poll Tax - David Hoffman, 1990

Poll Tax – David Hoffman, 1990
Photographer since 1976, EPUK member since 1999.

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"Photographers being arrested to seize evidence" claim at NUJ Photographers' Conference

The first NUJ Photographers’ Conference heard claims that police are using their powers of arrest to seize journalists’ material and circumvent the Special Procedure Material protections in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.

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Dancing Fairy - Philippe Hays, 2000

Dancing Fairy – Philippe Hays, 2000
Photographer since 1994, EPUK member since 2001.

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Met cough up for unprovoked attack

A photographer who was severely assaulted by a police officer in an unprovoked attack has accepted an out of court settlement of £30,000.

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Demonstration against women's rights legislation, Kanchpur, Bangladesh - A.M. Ahad, 2011

Photograph © AM Ahad

When a number of Islamic political groups staged a nationwide strike in Bangladesh to protest against government approval of women’s rights legislation in April 2011, my job as a photojournalist was to produce a photograph that illustrated the division in society.

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Birmingham police officer 'forced press photographer to delete images'

A photographer from a Birmingham-based photographic agency has raised a complaint with West Midlands Police following an incident in which he says a police officer forced him to delete images from his memory card.

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ACPO Police-Media Guidelines

The following guidelines were first introduced by the Metropolitan Police in March 2006 following two years of negotiations by the BPPA, the NUJ and the CIJ. They were later adopted by all police forces in Britain in April 2007.

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Anti-capitalist protest – Terence Bunch, 2008

An anti-capitalist protester is held back by City of London police during a demonstration called to protest over the financial crisis, which dogs domestic and international financial markets during the second half of 2008.

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UK journalist kidnapped in Iraq

A journalist and a translator employed by the US television network, CBS has been kidnapped in Iraq, according to reports.

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Photographer Trent Keegan found dead in Kenya

Photojournalist and Ireland-based EPUK member Trent Keegan has been found dead in Nairobi in suspicious circumstances.

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BPPA, NUJ, CIJ herald new deal with Met

A joint effort by the National Union of Journalists, the British Press Photographers’ Association, and the Chartered Institute of Journalists has resulted in a new set of guidelines being agreed with London’s Metropolitan Police.

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Keegan family considers independent inquiry

The family of murdered photojournalist Trent Keegan have said they are considering launching their own investigation into his death in Kenya.

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Robbie Williams – Lenny Warren, 2006

Robbie Williams – Lenny Warren, 2006
Photographer since 1987, EPUK member since 2006

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Photographing Protest

Protest photography is much more than extreme street photography. Coverage of protest forms our social memory, it creates a permanent record for history, spreading the ideas behind the protest and fertilising social change.

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No charges over Law "pap attack"

The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that no further action should be taken against actor Jude Law over an alleged attack on a photographer.

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Met Police to relax London photography restrictions in pilot scheme

A pilot scheme set to begin next month will see the Metropolitan Police taking a less restrictive approach to street photography in the capital by agreeing not to approach registered photographers.

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Seasonal Punch

Perhaps with an eye to more lucrative paparazzo work, it seems freelance photographer Steve Farrell, 30, of Liverpool, may be trying to convince certain fist-eager celebrities that it’s OK to punch photographers after all.

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Oi! Minkey - Do You ‘ave A License For Zat Camerabehm?

Like many people we here at EPUK Towers have been shocked – shocked! – by the recent incident involving Suffolk police and a self-confessed amateur photographer.

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Photographer accused of "four second" assault on Heather Mills-McCartney

A freelance paparazzo sent to photograph Heather Mills McCartney has been accused in court of attacking and injuring her in a Brighton subway during a four second gap in a sequence of digital photographs.

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NUJ disunity helps no-one except the publishers we should be fighting

Union disunity over issues such as the Drogheda Independent controversy helps no-one except the very employers who are at the root of the problem, writes NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear.

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Julie, sex worker, Bradford - Si Barber, 2010

This is one of a series of pictures of street prostitutes working in Bradford, West Yorkshire. They are intended to show what kerb-crawlers encounter before deciding to part with their cash.

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Fans - Bettina Strenske, 2006

Fans – Bettina Strenske, 2006.
Photographer since 2005, EPUK Member since 2006.

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No pictures 'ere mate: London Authority bans photographers

Photographers working in London’s Trafalgar Square are now routinely approached by GLA ‘Heritage Wardens’ demanding to see their photography permits, without which they are told to stop taking pictures, reports EPUK member Andrew Wiard

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Picture Desk Modem Numbers

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Living with Wolfie - Tamany Baker, 2007

The series documents my response to the ‘presents’ that Wolfie, my beloved cat, brings into the home. At first, I experienced some kind of horror: these dead creatures waiting for me in different parts of my house.

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Photographing the National Front, by David Hoffman

David Hoffman specialises in social issues photography.

Motivated by documenting what's become increasingly overt state constraint on our lives, I've spent some 40 years documenting a range of social issues from policing and racial and social conflict to homelessness drugs, poverty and exclusion. Protest, and the violence that sometimes accompanies it, is the theme that stitches my work together.

Editorial photography is an increasingly beleaguered profession. The erosion of press freedom, ever more intrusive policing and the undermining of copyright have created a perfect storm of obstacles. As a founding member of EPUK and Photo-Forum London, I'm now working on a very different front line. Engaging with regulatory bodies, collecting societies, the NUJ, the British Photographic Council and other UK photographic organisations as well as with commercial services protecting copyright, is the best way I can see to achieve a supportive ecology for professional photography and build a sustainable future for editorial photography.

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NUJ members under police surveillance mount collective legal challenge

Six NUJ members have discovered that their lawful journalistic and union activities are being monitored and recorded by the Metropolitan Police. They are now taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the Home Secretary to challenge this ongoing police surveillance. By David Hoffman and others.

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Police, photographers and the Law

Civil Rights Lawyers Shamik Dutta and Rosie Brighouse of Bhatt Murphy answer fifteen key questions on police powers and photography in Britain today. Photographs Jules Mattsson and David Hoffman.

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Battle cry from Scottish Photographers

Sunday, 9pm: Channel Four airs ‘Braveheart’, a story of how plucky Scots (led by a short Australian) rose up to overcome oppression. Two days later, Scots photographers meeting in Glasgow decide to form the Scottish Press Photographers Association. Just coincidence ?

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WATCH OUT! There’s a G4S about

As the world watches G4S attempt to protect the London Olympics David Hoffman worries that with its history of arrogance and mismanagement the security giant’s presence might sink photographers’ hopes of working freely during the biggest sporting event in the UK since the 66 World Cup.

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Photographer fined for foot and mouth breach

A press photographer who breached cordons during last years foot and mouth outbreak has been sentenced by Guildford magistrates.

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British Photographer Steve Morgan jailed in US

A British freelance photographer is facing a possible eleven year prison sentence in California after being arrested at Vandenberg United States Air Force base on Saturday whilst photographing a Greenpeace organised protest against the recent Star Wars missile test.

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The tyre fire you could see from space - Mark Readman, 2014

The Tyre fire you could seen from space. Photo © Mark Readman

At 8:37 am on 16h January 2014 the North Yorkshire Fire Service received a report that Britain's largest waste tyre recycling site at Sherburn was alight.

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Veteran - Stuart Griffiths, 2006

Veteran – Stuart Griffiths, 2006
Photographer since 1998, EPUK member since 2002.

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Looking at the bigger picture in Derby

Before the second National Photography Symposium kicks off in Derby tomorrow, organiser Paul Herrmann explains why it is important to debate the issues that threaten the photographic industry today.

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New Year's Resolutions from around the Photographic Industry

We asked leading photographic industry bodies what their New Year’s resolutions were. The answers were somewhat surprising…

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Repeat offender?

A British professional photographer is being accused by photographers from around the world of using their copyright images as his own – for a second time!
EPUK member Si Barber investigates.

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Sir Paul Stephenson becomes Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police Force - Neil Turner, 2009

The Metropolitan Police has an in-house magazine called The Job and I was asked to shoot two sets of pictures of Sir Paul Stephenson for it when he became the new Commissioner in February 2009. The first set were portraits in his office and the second was of his address to a meeting of rank and file officers at the Methodist Central Hall in London the following morning.

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New From EPUK: Plodshop Creative Suite™

In keeping with EPUK’s tradition of innovation, we are this week proud to announce the launch a new software suite for professional photographers. First Strike™, developed by Warren Terror Software, is designed to address major security issues in industry standard photo manipulation software such as Adobe Photoshop and Tesco PhotoRestyle.

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Melak, Piraeus, Athens from the ongoing series ‘Hate Hurts’ by photojournalist Cinzia D’Ambrosi

Cinzia D'Ambrosi is an Italian photojournalist and documentary photographer based in London. Her photo stories have exposed issues of marginalization, poverty and economic oppression in China, the Balkans and Western Europe. Her work has been widely published, including by Amnesty International, Huffington Post, Vice, the New Internationalist, Witness, the BBC and commissioned by Save the Children, Shelter, West London Zone and 4in10 to name a few. Her work has received recognition from the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese, Arts Council, nominated by the publisher Dewi Lewis and in the permanent collection of the Hellenic Centre for Photography in Athens, Greece. Her current and ongoing photo project ‘Hate Hurts’ brings to light stories from refugees and victims of hate crimes. If you would like to know more, or to support or endorse this project in any way, please email dambrosi.cinzia@gmail.com. To see more of Hate Hurts click here.

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Mike Russell, advertising and street photographer and digital pioneer

The advertising and street photographer Mike Russell has died from cancer. He was an early practitioner of digital technology and a passionate environmentalist.

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The NUJ Photographers' Conference: why it matters, and why you should be there.

Plans are well underway for the NUJ’s inaugural Photographers Conference, to be held next February.

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Tradeclips launch provides videographers with new way to distribute multimedia content

A new service which allows editorial photographers and videographers to store and syndicate multimedia content is being launched this month by a UK company.

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Photojournalism and "fair use": Fitzgerald v CBS Broadcasting

A case recently decided by a Massachusetts court highlights the special protection given to news photographers under the UK Copyright Act, writes Charles Swan of Swan Turton.

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Every Day Is Non-Photography Day

You’ve heard of it: now’s your chance to be part of it! In anticipation of the Second World Non-Photography Day on July 17 EPUK is proud to announce the Every Day Is Non-Photography Day ® contest, with great prizes, including your chance to win a Non-Photography Diploma: free!

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How npower lost its credibility over the Radley Lakes injunction

Three months on, while the exact reasons behind the injuncting of an EPUK member at Radley Lakes still remain a mystery, npower has been left with very little credibility, writes EPUK website editor Nick McGowan-Lowe

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Frestonia, 1981. Putting the front door back after a police raid based on mistaken identity. By Tony Sleep

Tony Sleep lived in Frestonia 1974-82, where he was a Minister of State for, he thinks, the Arts. He spent the last 40 years, mostly working on commission for magazines, housing groups and charities. He is one of the moderators, and a member of EPUK since 1999.

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The EPUK Fair Play for Citizen Journalists Campaign

EPUK believes in fair treatment for eyewitness photographers who submit their photos to commercial media organisations.

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The npower statements that persuaded a court to ban photography at Radley Lakes

Following the controversial serving of an injunction of press photographer and EPUK member Adrian Arbib, we can now reveal the evidence used by npower to persuade a court to ban all photography of its employees and contractors at Radley Lakes, Oxfordshire.

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Staying Safe: Mobile Phone Security

As we increasingly take our mobile phones for granted David Hoffman suggests that photographers should be alert to the dangers of carrying a sophisticated monitoring device in their pocket, especially when working abroad.

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7. Trading under the new copyright legislation

Photographers, their agents, and their clients should balance their claims to copyright against their own needs and legitimate use by others.

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The 2007 EPUK Golden Cameraphone Awards

They’re back! Bigger and badder than ever, it’s the annual EPUK Golden Cameraphone Awards. Check out how you did, and get your lawyers to call our lawyers in the morning…

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Penny Tweedie (1940-2011)

The photographic industry pays tribute to the respected photojournalist who documented Aboriginal culture and
turned her camera away from the bayoneting of prisoners in Bangladesh in 1971.

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Why the NUJ election is an opportunity for photographers to show their strength

The election to become the NUJ’s next Deputy General Secretary offers photographers a unique chance to use their voice and to show their strength, argues EPUK website editor Nick McGowan-Lowe

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The 2006 EPUK Golden Sureshot Awards

Dig out your tux, powder your nose, get ready for a night out in the gutter. The votes are counted, the fix is in, and the losers are…

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Dotcom 2 : The Movie

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth with Nikon Fs things were simple. Photographers took photographs, writers wrote, newspapers and magazines published information that readers wanted or needed enough to pay for. Advertisers paid to reach readers and publishers tried to put together titles that tempted both to part with their money, whilst unions sought to balance the interests of their members against exploitation. Then there was TV, a different medium altogether, populated by people with clipboards and strange job titles.

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8. Frequent Problems

In this section we have tried to deal with some of the more frequent questions asked of BPLC members.

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Photojournalist 'Kash' Torsello kidnapped by Afghan gunmen

Photographer and EPUK member Gabriele Torsello has been kidnapped in southern Afghanistan, according to Afghan news agency reports.

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Streaker snapped chasing the bill

Two landscape photographers got more than they bargained for in chilly Newcastle-upon-Tyne when a policeman flashed across their viewfinders, hotly pursued by a streaker.

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