Jules Mattsson

The ongoing Leveson Inquiry into media ethics & practice has great potential to help improve the media landscape in Britain, it also has the power to severely curtail a free press and destroy visual journalism. With the proposals and discussion of laws that would require a person’s consent before photographing them in public, news photographers … Continue reading »

Alternative Title: No, it’s not fair use because you saw it on twitter. Firstly, disclaimer; I am not a lawyer or copyright expert, I am not qualified to give legal advice and what you do with this information is in no way my responsibility. Secondly, I am writing this specifically around twitter pictures which are … Continue reading »

Up until recently I’ve had an image in a public work album on my facebook page, a photograph that’s been widely published in the national and international press. The image is fully lawful, accurately reports on a news event and is from a public place. The publication would be widely considered to be in ‘the … Continue reading »

10 years on from the September 11th attacks in New York and we still live under the shadow of anti-terror policing. In both the US and the UK photography has been a very visible casualty of suspicion, harassment, legislative change and scaremongering in the wake of terror attacks. Photographers and the police have often been … Continue reading »

The disorder that swept England recently has calmed, leaving untold destruction, injury and a number of deaths in it’s wake. Lens-based journalists are often in the frontline of these situations to report, receiving aggression from all sides. Already a number of photographers have been injured and mugged while covering disturbances, radio cars burnt and TV … Continue reading »

“Wow great picture! You must have a good camera” If you ever want to really piss of a professional photographer, alongside calling them ‘my photographer’, ‘just a photographer’, not paying on time or asking them to work for a photo credit,  just say those words… Far too often in this industry is the concept of … Continue reading »

WARNING: This post contains me ‘getting my geek on’ and may bore you to an extent that even televised cricket couldn’t match… Captioning, editing and transmitting images on deadline can be slow and difficult without the right workflow, especially on small laptops in bad conditions. If you’re used to photomechanic then this will be fairly … Continue reading »