Chinese Man Killed Documenting Law Enforcement
Photography has long been a vital tool used to focus attention on authoritative rule. Given that fact, photography has also been the catalyst for authoritarian violence aimed at silencing a free press. A recent incident demonstrates that nowhere has this been more true than in China.
Headline: A Chinese man beaten to death by Chinese authorities for using a mobile camera phone to document law enforcement. Wei Wenhua, 41 year old a construction executive was attempting to document police efforts to defuse a protest denouncing the dumping of municipal waste. When at least 50 municipal inspectors attacked Mr. Wenhua as he attempted to film the scene, he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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2007 Photoshare Photo Contest Winners!
Photo from Philippines Honored in 5th Annual Photoshare
Photo Contest Sponsored By Hopkins’ INFO Project
BALTIMORE - A striking black and white image of a Filipino farmer set against a background of rice fields won 1st Place/Best of Show at the 5th Annual Photoshare Photo Contest. Sam De Leon submitted the winning photo in the competition sponsored by The INFO Project at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP).
The INFO Project is a reproductive health knowledge-sharing resource supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). INFO’s Photoshare service helps international non-profits communicate health and development issues through photography. By facilitating photo sharing among colleagues in international development, Photoshare has become a leading source for editorial development photography. The Photoshare collection, consisting primarily of photos taken by public health professionals in the field, contains thousands of images illustrating the realities of urban and rural life in developing countries, as well as global efforts to improve and save lives, www.photoshare.org.
Open to amateurs and professionals alike, the contest drew interest from around the globe, including more than 347 participants who submitted more than 1,148 photos shot in 92 different countries.
See All: 2007 Photoshare Photo Contest Winners
View the 2007 Winners Slide Show
GHWA Photo Contest
The Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) invites professional and non-professional photographers worldwide to participate in a photo contest. The theme of the photo contest focuses on the daily life of a health worker at work and is an invitation to provide one or more high-quality photographs together with their caption and brief description. There are three categories of submission: Color photographs (digital or prints) Black and white photographs (digital or prints) Digital art photographs (images created or drastically manipulated by computer software or electronic filters) For each category the following awards will be given:
1st Prize 1000 US$
2nd Prize 750 US$
3rd Prize 500 US$
Special mentions 100 US$
The closing date for entries is 21 January 2008. If you would like to take part in the contest by entering photograph(s), please carefully read and take good note of the competition guidelines and rules on the GHWA web site(see link). http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/forum/GHWA_Photo_contest/en/