Protesters turn on photographer in Egypt

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Here is an interesting article about how quickly a mob's attitude can change.

http://animalnewyork.com/2013/this-...just-before-the-muslim-brotherhood-jumps-you/

It goes without saying that this guy did a few things wrong, and was very very lucky. Knowing how to read a scene and diffuse a situation could have really helped!

Additionally, do you think it's poor form to openly discuss craft of the trade, such as deleted image recovery? 😕


edit: forgive me, I really do know how to spell "protesters"
 
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I always wonder about this, particularly if the reporter is a foreigner and clearly stands out as not being part of the mob.
 
It has never been safe to photograph people at illegal activities - even if you sympathize with them and their actions, they may consider you a danger (if only because the police might later seize your camera for use as evidence). And the risk is even higher if you are perceived as neutral or even hostile.

Still, he's been only kicked out and sent home, sans camera - not a act of extraordinarily cruelty by the Muslim Brotherhood, but the standard risk any PJ should calculate in when tackling these subjects. I know a photographer that had the same happen to him when photographing graffiti artists in peaceful Switzerland.

On the other hand at least five photographers/camera operators working for Western media in Egypt have been shot dead by the police or military in the last few days, and the number of local PJs dead or missing is much higher...
 
sevo said:
On the other hand at least five photographers/camera operators working for Western media in Egypt have been shot dead by the police or military in the last few days, and the number of local PJs dead or missing is much higher...
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And lets not even begin with the intentional targeting of PJ's in Syria. There was an article published (perhaps by Vice?) that pointed out the people who really get the raw end of the deal are the "fixers". They are seen as next to expendable.
 
helvetica said:
And lets not even begin with the intentional targeting of PJ's in Syria. There was an article published (perhaps by Vice?) that pointed out the people who really get the raw end of the deal are the "fixers". They are seen as next to expendable.
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By their own people ? Interesting, the released Franco-American PJ Jonathan Alpeyrie believes he was actually sold by his fixer to the rebels in Syria
 
No, I would not discuss deletion recovery. The more who don't know, the better for any poor soul who ends up in the same fix.

But then I probably wouldn't have gone out into the crowd either.
 
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Who is "their own people" in a civil war with three or more parties?
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The more you read first hand accounts of what's happening around the world, the more you realize how complicated things are. You also gain a form of disconnect when you hear the sanitized reports on the news about "good guys" and "bad guys".
 
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