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Captured on a Camera Phone

Sep 17 2007

Back to: Calling All Amateur Journalists

London bombings, July 2005
Saddam Hussein hanged, December 2006
Lebanon refugee-camp fighting, June 2007
New York pipe explosion, July 2007
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London bombings, July 2005
On-location images from the London subway bombings were shot on camera phones.
Saddam Hussein hanged, 2006
A witness used a camera phone to take images of Saddam Hussein’s hanging last year. Photojournalists had been barred.
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.
New York pipe explosion, July 2007
With technology rapidly improving, it may not be long before a camera-phone shot snags a big prize.