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Photographing the 2024 Republican National Convention
I have been covering the American Political Convention since 2004 and it’s hard for me to believe that it has been 20 years since I photographed my first RNC in New York City.
I have been covering the American Political Convention since 2004 and it’s hard for me to believe that it has been 20 years since I photographed my first RNC in New York City.
Reuters photojournalist Joshua Roberts was escorted out of yesterday's Impeachment Hearings after a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee noticed him taking photos of the papers on one of the Democratic members' desks at the dais. Reuters maintains that Roberts was doing nothing wrong.
Now that a little time has passed I thought I would put together a post on my experiences covering “the crazy” at the recent Republican and Democratic Conventions in Cleveland and Philly respectively.
Virgina-based photographer Ray Reynolds thinks there are consequences to covering one of (if not the) most controversial public figures in the world. He says that ever since he began photographing Republican nominee Donald Trump professionally, the rest of his business has completely dried up.
If there’s one time you really shouldn’t steal an image and (poorly) Photoshop it, it's probably while campaigning for a Senate seat. Colorado Republican candidates Tim Neville, Tony Sanchez and Laura Woods recently learned this lesson the hard way.