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Idk if this fits this category since its more the artistic side, but people who cover surveillance as a topic, I swear its white noise to me now. And big named artist publishing books full of blurry images and they get away with it purely because of their names. Like if i posted one of these images for my uni course I'd fail
I am curious about the surveillance thing. Do you mean the photojournalist types that literally only document new surveillance equipment in, say, the city they live in? Or do you mean something different?
On a different but similar note, I have noticed that some left leaning journalists that I very much otherwise respect and listen to have started this trend of "don't document protests" in the past years and I vehemently disagree with that take. Or, and this one gets me, documenting these events is only cool if you completely remove any context that could possibly capture what happened. A lot of these guys mean well, but I think it is a dangerous and counterproductive thought process when it comes to journalism.