London bombings, July 2005
Photo by Alexander Chadwick
On-location images from the London subway bombings were shot on camera phones.
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Saddam Hussein hanged, 2006
A witness used a camera phone to take images of Saddam Hussein’s hanging last year. Photojournalists had been barred.
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Lebanon refugee-camp, June 2007
Several photo agencies have set up sites for user-generated content, such as You Witness News, a Reuters affiliate, and Getty Images’ Scoopt. The material posted may be grainy by professional standards, but it’s sometimes all that is available.
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New York pipe explosion, July 2007
Photo by Joseph Marty
With technology rapidly improving, it may not be long before a camera-phone shot snags a big prize.
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