A recent federal court decision underscores the problems faced by California journalists covering accident or crime scenes

In Chavez v. City of Oakland, No. C 08-04015 CRB (N.D. Cal. June 2, 2009), U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that an Oakland police officer did not violate a newspaper photographer’s First Amendment rights by detaining him after he attempted to take photographs at the site of a freeway crash. The ruling, however, did not address California law, which provides greater protection for the rights of the press to report and photograph at disaster and accident sites. READ THE FULL STORY HERE

HONG KONG — Hubert Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and took one of the best-known images of the American evacuation of Saigon in 1975 — people scaling a ladder to a helicopter on a rooftop — died here on Friday. He was 67. READ MORE HERE

Traveling constantly across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Sebastião Salgado has documented the human toll of violence and migration in visually stunning photographs of manual laborers, refugees, and sprawling metropolises. The 2001 documentary Salgado: The Spectre of Hope chronicled the creation of his series of photographs, published as Migrations: Humanity in Transition. 

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One of WWII's most famous photographers, is considered to be Robert Capa. His famous shot of a soldier being shot in mid-stride has become controversial, to say the least. Some new info on this and his other work at that time will come forth  with the discovery of 126 rolls of his and other photographers shot during the Spanish Civil War.