The Photo Feed 09.10.07

Knocked Down—And Fighting Back (Sydney Morning Herald)
Getty photog Paula Bronstein is calling for an investigation into the actions of Sydney police who injured her (and her camera) during Saturday’s APEC protests. Police pushed Brontein to the ground, smashing her camera lens and bruising her neck and jaw. The incident happened “after we’d been taking shots of this woman being arrested and we were back on the sidewalk and the police started yelling ‘get back’ and started to push people back into the park,” says Bronstein. “Then there was a push—two hands pushing me down really, really, hard and I just went back onto the sidewalk. It came out of nowhere, totally unprovoked.” The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance has also called for an investigation into the skirmish, which Bronstein says is rare even in her work as a conflict photog. Andrew Scipione, a spokesman for the police commissioner’s office, refused to comment.

Wire Services Resume Coverage Of Rugby World Cup (Romenesko)
AP, AFP and Reuters photogs are no longer standing around, unsure as to whether—or when—they’d get to shoot the Rugby World Cup. On Friday afternoon, the Rugby World Cup Ltd. (RWCL) and the News Media Coalition, which includes about 30 media companies and trade associations, issued a joint statement indicating that “Both sides agree that still photographs used on websites should not be presented in a way which 'emulates video.' For the Rugby World Cup 2007 only, news and sports websites will be allowed to use a maximum number of stills during games of 200 (including extra time). The stills will not be used at a frequency of greater than one still per 30 second. Use at other times will remain unrestricted.” The RWCL also agreed to meet with key news media organizations today to discuss strategies for improving opportunities for creating and publishing images. Following the Rugby World Cup, the two sides will begin meeting to discuss the larger problems that led to the original disagreement.

MORE BELOW: Officers order photography student to delete pix ... SAA sets the copyright record straight ... Sina to partner with Getty Images for Olympics ... Vogue to unveil its first India issue ... Dow Jones Union members contemplate strike ... Why some print ads fail ... The story behind an iconic 9/11 photo ... Times-Picayune photogs recall Katrina ... Jim Winn talks about ditching photojournalism ... Annie Leibovitz and Ansel Adams on display in D.C. ...

Officers Order Photography Student To Delete Pix (Post-Standard)
Twenty-four-year-old Miriam Jakuku was practicing some photo techniques outside Syracuse’s VA Medical Center on Thursday when hospital security officers questioned her, photocopied her Syracuse University ID and driver’s license and ordered her to delete the pix on her camera. Jakuku wonders if her Muslim headscarf had anything to do with the officers’ handling of the situation. After all, they asked the fledgling journo whether she was a U.S. citizen. But medical center spokesman Gordon Sclar said the woman’s appearance did not influence the officers’ behavior and that the officers were enforcing a policy that prevents photogs from taking pix on government property without first receiving permission. He did, however, apologize for deleting Jakuku’s pix and admitted such behavior was inappropriate.

SAA Sets The Copyright Record Straight (About The Image)
The Stock Artists Alliance, along with Pic Scout, has just released a study concerning unauthorized use of RM stock images on the Web. The findings, not surprisingly, do nothing to reassure photogs that their photos are safe. Conducted by examining the use of 20,000 pix from Getty Images and Corbis’ collections for four months during 2005, the study reveals extensive intellectual property theft, as well as inadvertent additional use to legally licensed rights. The report considers what this small sample might tell us about infringement throughout the industry, how much revenue may be lost, the potential for regaining revenue through recovery efforts and what photogs and agencies can do to address the problem. The full report is available for download via About The Image.

Sina To Partner With Getty Images For Olympics (Redline China via StockPhotoTalk)
Getty has agreed to provide pix from the 2008 Beijing Olympics to users of the Chinese Internet portal Sina, which will feature Olympic Web sites in six languages. The Web company had previously tried to secure a partnership with Reuters.

India Prepares To Get En Vogue (Reuters)
This month Vogue will finally roll out its India edition—and attempt “to create ‘a desire for guilt-free consumption.’” Although other foreign media companies have played it safe by making smaller investments in India, Conde Nast India’s managing director Alex Kuruville is confident that the company has found a gold mine. “We have a huge turnout of advertisements already,” says Kuruville. With many of the country’s millionaires going abroad to shop, Conde Nast went ahead and published 50,000 copies for the first go-round. The glossy has launched international editions in China, Japan and Russia during the last two years.

Is That Their Final Offer? (Editor & Publisher)
Sometimes no amount of negotiations are enough to work magic. After ten months of negotiations produced a final management offer, Dow Jones Union members are considering going on strike. While the proposal calls for a three-year agreement with a three-percent annual raise, union members are unhappy with the sharp increase in health benefit premiums, which are double the current fee in some instances. The two sides are supposed to meet on Wednesday. If those talks don’t appease union members, a vote on a strike could come when the IAPE board meets on Saturday.

Why Some Print Ads Fail (Ad Age)
Because they usually don’t undergo copy-testing services like TV ads do, print ads are usually a gamble. Suzanne and Bob Grayson of Grayson Associates have done some research and discovered that many print ads fail thanks to their use of visual imagery that could have easily appeared in any number of other ads. The duo’s findings also suggest that consumers are more likely wooed by “copy-heavy, claim-laden ads.”

New York Times Pix, Redux (About The Image)
New York-based Redux Pictures has been licensing NYT pix in the United States since July 2006. Now the newspaper has given Redux even bigger britches to fill, tapping the agency to assume responsibility for image sales in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the UK.

The Falling Man, Revisited (Esquire / Salon)
When photog Richard Drew snapped a photo at fifteen seconds past 9:41 a.m. EST on September 11, 2001, he had no idea that he was shooting what would become one of the most iconic—and controversial—pix of 9/11. Tom Junod revisits that oft-scorned image and recounts his journey to put a name with the face of a man who presumably jumped to his death. The Discovery Times Channel will air “The Falling Man,” a special exploring the controversy surrounding the photo tonight at 9 p.m. EST.

Remembering Katrina (Times-Picayune via Tim Gruber / APAD)
Of all the journos to report on Hurricane Katrina, few bore the weight of the storm than New Orleans’ Times-Picayune staffers. In this video, the paper’s photogs recall shooting their sinking city.

Ditching Photojournalism (APhotoADay)
After being the 2004 runner-up College Photographer of the Year and 2005 winner of the Hearst competition, Jim Winn did some time in the newspaper world before deciding photojournalism was unfulfilling. In this interview, Winn talks to Melissa Lyttle about reaching that realization, what the photojournalism industry can do to retain young photogs, becoming a trucker, founding the American Diversity Project and teaching photojournalism at the University of Kentucky.

Photo Greats On Display (Art Knowledge News / Corcoran)
If you plan to be in the D.C. area between mid-September and late January, you may want to plan a trip to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. From September 15 to January 27, the gallery will feature an Ansel Adams exhibit. And from October 13 to January 13, Corcoran will showcase more than 200 photos shot by Annie Leibovitz between 1990 and 2005. Among the pix showcased in “Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life” are portraits of actors such as Jamie Foxx and Brad Pitt, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo during the early 1990s, Hillary Clinton’s election to the U.S. Senate and more. “Ansel Adams” will feature about 125 pix from The Lane Collection, the largest private collection of Adams’ work. The exhibit, which was organized by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, will include a number of rarely exhibited prints.