Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Contributing photographers - IMC photo library now online

mini mouse | 03.08.2005 10:16 | Technology

Thousands of pictures get published on indymedia sites worldwide, but when they drop off the newswire they generally can't be found again. To remedy this we've created a picture library where photographers can post pictures of lasting value, allowing them to be retrieved by keyword, subject, date or author.



Pictures downloaded by users of the library retain this information along with copyright details (by default a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License) and the contact details (if supplied) of the photographer.

The library can be found at  http://w3.buz.org/indypix

mini mouse
- e-mail: mini_mouse@riseup.net

Comments

Hide the following 4 comments

Great Resource!

03.08.2005 12:12

Hey Mini ! This is a great resource!

Where can I send suggestions?

suggestion 1 - when the image is downloaded it is currently squished even though the full image is downloaded... how about making the image clickable so we could see the full see image easily!

more suggestions/requests and praise will follow, i'm sure...

sean

Sean


Picture library suggestions

03.08.2005 12:34

You can contact through the e-mail link above (or here :-)

As for "squished"...

All the thumbnails expand into bigger versions if you click on them. When you have a full size version (still less than 500 pixels however) you can save it to the computer (drag to the desktop on a Mac, dunno about Windoze). Then you can open it in any image editor (or even just drag it into a Browser window) or Get Info in Photoshop will reveal the story behind the picture.

mini mouse
mail e-mail: mini_mouse@riseup.net


confussed and concerned

03.08.2005 17:25

I followed the link to the site and read some text about the resource being a place for g8 pictures but when I did view all, all the photos were of recent non G8 related events.

So whats the score? What is this resource for and why is it needed as a seperate thing from indymedia itself?

The ability to upload photos and search for photos is already present in UK indy so I don't understand the reason for this new site. If it were a specific archive of G8 photos then that might make some sence (although again, MIR can already do it) but if people are going to upload any photo on loads of issues then it seems a little wierd.

grey


Fair comment

05.08.2005 20:16

"I followed the link to the site and read some text about the resource being a place for g8 pictures but when I did view all, all the photos were of recent non G8 related events".

Yup, re-reading the link it is misleading. What I meant was G8 was starting point, not an end in itself. I'll re-write it.

"So whats the score? What is this resource for and why is it needed as a seperate thing from indymedia itself?"

Not separate at all, I work with IMC London and consider it an IM resource.

"The ability to upload photos and search for photos is already present in UK indy so I don't understand the reason for this new site."

I'm not aware of this, or how it works. Nobody mentioned this facility to me whilst I was working on the picture library even though loads of people were aware of it. If this has been a waste of my time I'd be pretty pissed off.

"If it were a specific archive of G8 photos then that might make some sence (although again, MIR can already do it) but if people are going to upload any photo on loads of issues then it seems a little wierd."

Not at all. What's wrong with a picture library to which activists world wide subscribe? In France, want a picture relating to zapatistas? In Germany want a picture relating to Tibet? Picture libraries are set up all over just to service the marketing industry. What's wrong with one to service activism?

mini mouse


Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech