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Hi all. Looking at the image on the Tears for Peace thread in the critique forum, I remembered an incident that happened a few years ago here in Brighton.
It was the Labour party conference and there were protesters outside of the conference centre all day. Near the end when the delegates were due out the police cleared many to the other side of the road.
The were a few however who 'broke through' and were fighting with the police outside the venue. I nipped over the road and took almost a whole roll of film of the police and the protesters fighting, I shot some good pictures, real scrapping pics with the people fighting all over the place, on the floor, punches being thrown, hats flying in mid-air, the lot, loads of 'action' picture, some were worthy of the next days front page!
I took the film in to be developed and upon returning for it was told the film had been damaged and no pictures could be procesed. Gutted, I thought nothing of it but looking back it was clearly a case of censorship!
Nowdays though thanks to digital this would never happen would it? You can take pictures of absolutely anything and within hours have them up on the net for all to see.
Now, I know before digital came along, bearded men would spend long periods of time cooped up in a darkened spare room or garden shed or something making their own pictures but doing this you were not actually assured media coverage if the subject was a bit bit dodgy.
I wonder how big events in the past would have been reported, things like the Second World War and Vietnam if digital and the internet were around then.........
It was the Labour party conference and there were protesters outside of the conference centre all day. Near the end when the delegates were due out the police cleared many to the other side of the road.
The were a few however who 'broke through' and were fighting with the police outside the venue. I nipped over the road and took almost a whole roll of film of the police and the protesters fighting, I shot some good pictures, real scrapping pics with the people fighting all over the place, on the floor, punches being thrown, hats flying in mid-air, the lot, loads of 'action' picture, some were worthy of the next days front page!
I took the film in to be developed and upon returning for it was told the film had been damaged and no pictures could be procesed. Gutted, I thought nothing of it but looking back it was clearly a case of censorship!
Nowdays though thanks to digital this would never happen would it? You can take pictures of absolutely anything and within hours have them up on the net for all to see.
Now, I know before digital came along, bearded men would spend long periods of time cooped up in a darkened spare room or garden shed or something making their own pictures but doing this you were not actually assured media coverage if the subject was a bit bit dodgy.
I wonder how big events in the past would have been reported, things like the Second World War and Vietnam if digital and the internet were around then.........
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