Publication: Cover of Stage Screen & Radio Magazine. September 2008.
Last night I won “Best Picture” at the TUC press awards. The picture was published last year by Stage Screen & Radio Magazine – the journal of the broadcasting union BECTU. The picture documented an ITV Meridian crew being stopped and searched by police at last years climate camp protest.
On the day I took the picture – I was assaulted, stop & searched and later filmed by a police surveillance team when filing by pictures at a local McDonalds (free WiFi).
My acceptance speech at last nights awards ceremony – on press freedom, climate camp, G20, police surveillance of journalists and how documenting dissent is under attack – seemed to go down well with the great and good of the trade union movement!
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Well done mate, good to see you getting some recognition for your good work.
Nice one Marc, good work. Good to get those issues aired in front of TUC hierarchy. You never know, they might end up doing something…err…
Funny you should say that Rich,
Freelance photographer Marc Vallée, who took the picture, told Journalism.co.uk: “It is always good to get recognition for the work you do, but I do hope this is a sign that TUC leaders will take up the case of press freedom and photographers rights with the government at the highest level.
“After all it is this New Labour government – backed by the trade union movement – that brought in the anti-terror laws that are so often used against working journalists and photographers when documenting dissent on the streets, and sometimes fields, of Britain.”
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/535004.php