{"id":510,"date":"2009-01-01T12:04:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-01-01T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T10:37:21","slug":"photo-reporter-in-a-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2009\/01\/01\/photo-reporter-in-a-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo reporter in a riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/emeute_paris-2007.jpg\" alt=\"Manifestations \u00e0 Paris (2007), par Remouille\" title=\"Manifestations \u00e0 Paris (2007)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-521\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manifestations \u00e0 Paris (2007), par Remouille<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You may never have to do it, but it is a kind of experience that only an excellent pro reporter could deliver: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/stories\/2008\/09\/03\/3342\/how_to_cover_a_riot\">How to cover a riot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Camp (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) gives us the essentials about shooting photos in this kind of high-tension, fast-action environment. The photographer (pro or amateur) does not want to be taken by surprise either by the activists or by the police forces. For this, he needs to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/stories\/2008\/09\/03\/3342\/how_to_cover_a_riot\">a set of rules<\/a>. Some may appear obvious, some may be important to learn:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Always \u2014 ALWAYS! \u2014 know where the cops are and what they&#8217;re doing<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t mess with riot cops during a riot.<\/li>\n<li>Always \u2014 ALWAYS! \u2014 know where the Little Assholes are.<\/li>\n<li>Very important. Learn to walk backwards.<\/li>\n<li>All riots have their own geography, or shape.<\/li>\n<li>Listen carefully.<\/li>\n<li>Dress right.<\/li>\n<li>Given a choice, at a riot, it&#8217;s better to be a reporter than a photographer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the words of John Camp: &#8220;<em>Follow these simple media rules, and you probably won&#8217;t get hurt, and you&#8217;ll probably get the story. Best of all, you&#8217;ll also look like a pro.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may never have to do it, but it is a kind of experience that only an excellent pro reporter could deliver: How to cover a riot. John Camp (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) gives us the essentials about shooting photos in this kind of high-tension, fast-action environment. The photographer (pro or amateur) does not want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}