Posts Tagged ‘photos’

Electoral Commission warning on photos

Written By: - Date published: 5:46 pm, September 11th, 2014 - 15 comments

Publishing a photo of your voting paper could earn you a $20,000 fine, and other warnings from the Electoral Commission.

Photos from the Bridgeman lockout

Written By: - Date published: 4:45 pm, September 17th, 2009 - 6 comments

Some photos from the picketline at Bridgeman Concrete in East Tamaki, where workers have been locked out indefinitely unless they submit to a two year pay freeze. Good to see them standing strong. Click the thumbnails to see the full size pics: Hat tip: NDU via Indymedia.

The power of images in politics

Written By: - Date published: 3:15 pm, July 14th, 2009 - 7 comments

The shots above are small versions from this site where you can find other great images from Obama’s first 167 days in office. The official Whitehouse Flickr photostream is pretty impressive too. [UPDATE] Not to be outdone, as of yesterday, National’s photostream features Kate Wilkinson with a giant lump of earwax block of cheese.

Obama in 1980

Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, December 19th, 2008 - 11 comments

From Time: In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, who asked him if he would be willing to pose for some black and white photographs that she could use in her portfolio. She put the photos away until after […]

Reflected by the internet

Written By: - Date published: 2:02 pm, June 23rd, 2008 - 2 comments

Clayton Cubitt (friend of one of the editors of BoingBoing) has recently visited NZ. He’s posted some fantastic visual material to his tumblr site including the video below – a short interview with Vic Taurewa Biddle. More of Clayton’s Kiwi content here but (warning) it’s not a permalink so you might have to page back and forward […]

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