In the lead-up to the Chicago NATO summit in May, Amnesty International found itself embroiled in a controversy that burst and ricocheted across social media like a cluster bomb. As NATO leaders and anti-war protestors prepared to converge on the city, its bus shelters displayed striking posters of Afghan women shielding young children in the draping fabric of their burqas. The headline, 'Human Rights for Women and Girls in Afghanistan', was the standard fare one…
In August 2010, around 700 photographers gathered at the Rocks in Sydney to protest against restrictions on photography in public space. An image of the event shows the opera house in the background surrounded by placards with slogans like 'Photographers not Predators' and 'Capture the Moment not the Photographer'. There are as many cameras as people, and both professional and amateur photographers wear bright purple T-shirts proclaiming 'I'm a Photographer not a Criminal'. In the…
