Guests: Claire Thomas, Jennifer Osborne
Topics:
- Black Lives Matter Protests
– How have we been covering the protests?
– What has our experience been?
– What drives us to risk our lives and health to cover a protest? - Teen Vogue is Teaching People How to Safely Photograph Police Misconduct
– Teen Vogue is giving advice on how to cover a protest. Is this a right decision? Do we really want teenagers out in these dangerous areas carrying cameras, covering an event and competing with professionals? What do you think of the advice given? Is it sound? What would you recommend to someone interested in covering the protests? - Should photographers show protester’s faces?
– This topic has been making the rounds online, what are your thoughts?
– Legally you have every right to document and release photos of people in public…ethically, though, some feel there is a grey area. The FBI issued a request for photos of looters and vandals so do we help law enforcement track down and arrest lawbreakers or do we aide and abet criminals?
Images below from Claire Thomas, used with permission, all images are Copyright Claire Thomas.
The glow of the setting sun is seen from inside a minaret dotted with bullet holes located in a West Mosul neighborhood recently liberated from Islamic State control by Iraqi forces, on June 25, 2017. Smoke billows in the background as a group of Islamic State fighters launch a counter attack in a nearby neighborhood, setting fire to houses, causing thousands of civilians to flee in fear of a resurgence of the terror group. 
A severely malnourished man receives emergency medical treatment at a makeshift field clinic on the edge of Mosul’s Old City, Iraq, on June 22, 2017. As the fighting continued to liberate the remaining ISIS-controlled territory, many civilians escaping the Old City showed signs of acute malnutrition after enduring several months without enough food and water. 
An Iraqi soldier prays next to the body of a baby outside a makeshift field clinic on the edge of Mosul’s Old City as the fighting to liberate the remaining pocket of ISIS-held territory intensifies, June 22, 2017. 
A severely malnourished two-month-old baby receives emergency medical treatment at a makeshift field clinic less than a kilometre from the frontline during the war against ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, on June 21, 2017. After surviving several months without enough food, water and fuel while trapped in ISIS-held territory in Mosul’s Old City, many civilians escaped in a state of acute malnutrition. Volunteer medics from international medical NGOs Global Response Management and Academy of Emergency Medicine, together with Iraqi forces medics, worked around the clock to provide emergency pre-hospital care to sick and injured civilians and soldiers. 
Firefighters work to extinguish the flames of a burning oil well in the Qayyarah oil field, south of Mosul, Iraq, set ablaze by retreating IS militants, December 12, 2016. Several months after Isamic State fighters began torching Qayyarahís oil wells, fire crews are still battling the flames. The operation to extinguish the fires is a difficult, dangerous and time-consuming task. Teams of firefighters, machine operators, mechanics, engineers and oil experts have come from across the country to join the effort. 
Iraqi soldiers in the Old City of Mosul search for remaining ISIS fighters on July 11, 2017. 
Soldiers of the Iraqi Special Forces take cover as a US-led coalition airstrike hits the Old City of Mosul as the battle continues to liberate the remaining pocket of ISIS-held territory. 
Injured Iraqi soldiers stand amongst the ruins of Mosul’s Old City as the fighting to liberate the remaining pocket of ISIS-held territory continues, July 9, 2017. 
Under a veil of black smoke from the nearby burning oil wells, an Iraqi Army tank and a coalition helicopter are seen on the outskirts of Qayyarah, south of Mosul, on December 7, 2016. 
An Iraqi soldier is pictured in the town of Gayyara, south of Mosul, on December 7, 2016. Before the town was liberated by Iraqi forces in August 2016, IS militants set fire to several oil wells. Thick, toxic smoke continues to shroud the city and surrounding areas. 
Injured and sick civilians are treated at a makeshift field clinic set up inside an abandoned store on the edge of Mosul’s Old City as the fighting continues to liberate the remaining ISIS-held territory, on July 4, 2017. 
A soldier of the Iraqi Army walks through a hole inside a destroyed house on the frontline in the Old City of Mosul as the fighting continues. 
A teenager receives treatment for a severely infected head wound at a makeshift field clinic set up inside an abandoned store on the edge of Mosul’s Old City, Iraq, on July 2, 2017. Having no access to proper medical care while trapped in the Old City, many civilians arrived at the clinic in need of emergency treatment for wounds that had become infected. Volunteer medics from international medical organisations Global Response Management and Academy of Emergency Medicine, together with Iraqi forces medics, worked around the clock providing pre-hospital care to civilians and soldiers as the fighting continued to liberate the remaining pocket of ISIS-controlled territory in Mosul. 
A child receives emergency treatment for head trauma and other injuries at a makeshift field clinic set up inside an abandoned store on the edge of Mosul’s Old City, Iraq, on July 2, 2017. As the fighting continued to liberate the remaining pocket of ISIS-held territory in Mosul, civilians who had been held hostage inside the Old City risked their lives to escape the fighting under heavy ISIS sniper fire. Medics from international medical organisations Global Response Management and Academy of Emergency Medicine, together with Iraqi forces medics, worked around the clock to treat injured civilians, many of whom showed signs of severe malnutrition after enduring months without enough food, water and fuel.
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