Police harassing and intimidating photographers, once again

This is one of the worst abuses I have ever seen of police abusing their authority to silence those who film them. An Orange County Sheriff's Deputy (near Los Angeles) uses the excuse of the privacy of a person being arrested, to harass and intimidate a man peacefully filming...

Technopark Satellites

Photo of the day - Satellites at Technopark@Chai Chee Singapore - On the rooftop of block 750B. A view from 7th floor of Block 750D to the south. Taken by Singapore Photographer, Schah - Source:...

Auschwitz Entrance

Image of the Day - The main entrance to Auschwitz. A photo taken by Schah from Image of the day photoblog. Showing railway track going to Auschwitz, Poland. Source: www.schahryar.com/photoblog/566

Auschwitz Baby Shoes

Image of the day - A baby shoe at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. It belongs to one of the children who forced by Nazi force to move to Auschwitz camp with their family during World War II. - See more at: www.schahryar.com/photoblog/563

Jacob Riis & the Manipulation of Photography

Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the...

More cases of police abuse including in Milwaukee

More examples of police violating our civil rights. This is one of the most abusive cases. Andrew Henderson is a man who while legally filming outside of his apartment residence in Little Canada (by St. Paul, Minnesota) videotaped a person being taken away by local...

Police abuses around the country

In Salt Lake City, Utah, police are illegally targeting minority students for gang membership in high schools.. In fact, they selectively choose minority students for interrogation when they lock down a school. Here is the case of one student, named K.W. and his experience ...

More police abuse videos, to start off 2013

Happy new year, or I hope you had a happy old year, based on if you are reading this in 2013 or 2012. Well, a topic of mine has been police abusing their authority and yes, once again, this will be one of those columns. In this video police in Chicago are writing a guy a...

Max Milligan – The Soul Of Scotland (Quadrille Publishing)

It is a country of great tradition, borne from centuries of rich and colourful history, often bloody but always unbowed. It lies across thousands of square miles of mainland and island, largely wide open spaces of grass and grazing yet in their midst swathes of tremendous...

Cracow at Dusk

Cracow downtown at dusk - picture taken by Schahryar Fekri

Star Cruises

Star Cruises Singapore. @ Port of Singapore. Photo by Schahryar Fekri (www.schahryar.com/photoblog)

Dubai Highway

Dubai Highway - photography by Schahryar

Auschwitz Suitcase

Suitcases of Auschwitz victims. Petr Eisler, the name of one of the victim children written on a suitcase. Birth year 1942. "Kind" means child in German. Seen at Auschwitz Museum.Source: Image of the day photoblog

The war by the police on your right to film, continues

Ian Van Kuyk is a student at Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA. I have been to Philadelphia a couple of times, it is a beautiful city. He, along with his girlfriend were arrested on March 14, 2012. Heinous crime, they committed? Not really, they were arrested because he...

Infatuation with Marilyn Monroe

The Palm Springs Art Museum features a photo exhibit of backyard swimming pools from the 1940s  to the 80s. There are several photos of Marilyn Monroe and her pool. I think one reason why people liked her so...

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