10/10/2023: A protester invades the stage and pours glitter over Keir Starmer at the start of the Leader's Speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
Journalists followed serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga's four trials for months, respecting reporting restrictions until today's final verdict. That's not a conspiracy to cover up rape, that's responsible reporting, ensuring justice for his victims AND the public's right to know.
10/10/2023: A protester invades the stage and pours glitter over Keir Starmer at the start of the Leader's Speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
Last night Manchester Pride's PR team told me I was not welcome at the Candlelit Vigil HIV memorial. It's a slightly long story but I'm particularly angry about it and it's important:
Quick follow up:
1) No it's not AI or Photoshop, it's a photograph of a thing that happened
2) If it were me I doubt I'd have been so calm
3) We're chill now we know what this was but, in that moment, it will have scared a lot of people.
6/7 I don't abandon people at immediate risk of harm. No one in this scene is in danger or without support. If I see someone at immediate risk and without support, I check on their welfare and, if appropriate, call for a first responder.
3/7 This photograph is one of many that form a >10 year project documenting nightlife in the city. It includes emotional extremes, work & play, funny & surreal, calm and tragic moments. If you aren't a regular follower, a single tweet doesn't reveal that context.
7/7 Some of the points raised deserve a more thoughtful reply than Twitter affords, so I will have left lots out, but I hope this gives a broad understanding of how and why this photograph exists. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Insulting, time-wasting email from
@BBCPolitics
Live requesting free photos. "Unfortunately we aren’t able to provide a fee for this I am afraid" says the producer. He'll be getting paid, of course.
2/7 I put a watermark on every photo I publish here. I get that it can feel inappropriate/commercial, particularly if you're not used to seeing my posts, but experience has taught me that this is a lesser problem than seeing photos republished without context or permission.
5/7 Broadly, photographers in the UK do not require consent to take photographs of people in public. Broadly, again, editorial publication (documentary such as this, news) does not require further permission from those pictured.
1/7 I'm really grateful to you all for your feedback on this photo. I'd like to answer a couple of the questions that have popped up. This is twitter so please understand the effects that character limit imposes on all of us.
@pixel8foto
Hi there, I'm a reporter for BBC News Online. Could I use this amazing image in a story about the fire on the BBC News website in exchange for credit to you? Thank you
10/10/2023: A protester invades the stage and pours glitter over Keir Starmer at the start of the Leader's Speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
A protester carries an injured counter-protester to safety during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in London. More photos as far-right and anti-racism protesters scuffle: 📷 Dylan Martinez
Next time you lay in to a heavily laden, visible and accessible photographer as sole representative of all that you dislike of "medja", remember that there are five reporter bylines at the top of this story, none of whom were actually there
My gorgeous photo of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations jogging outside Manchester Central Library, on tonight's
#HIGNFY
I'd like to know why my photojournalist colleague and friend
@TolgaAkmen
was forcibly removed when doing his job at the Conservative Party Conference this afternoon. This looks awful.
The idiocy never stops, does it?
This, shared by a TV friend. He was on the pavement in St Peter's Square.
@MCRMetrolink
told him he wasn't allowed to be there, then that he wasn't allowed to film the platform or trams and then demanded that he show them ID!
Great double-page use of a quick and dirty 1 minute photo I did for the first edition of the Sunday
@MENnewsdesk
& a brill piece by
@NealkeelingMEN
- more please!
Greetings from the past. I have scheduled photos from the early hours of 2016 in Manchester, including some I haven't previously shared, to be tweeted in real-time, in to the early hours of the morning.
My best wishes to you and yours for a happy new year.
#5yearsagotonight
@slippers_on
The video from it looked horrible. Time-wise, this was during the club's evacuation but I don't think (don't know for sure) that it's related. Nearby venues carried on unaware.
UNEDIFYING: the sight of an employed journo getting pissy because a freelancer, recently made redundant by the same employer, won't give their work away for free to their ex-employer, at the staff journo's request.