: Photojournalists take massive risks to report the news – but is the Indian media snuffing them out? #IndiaNEWS In July, the Kolkata Press Club, the oldest press club on the subcontinent, held a bizarre

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Photojournalists take massive risks to report the news – but is the Indian media snuffing them out? #IndiaNEWS
In July, the Kolkata Press Club, the oldest press club on the subcontinent, held a bizarre referendum to determine if photojournalists are journalist enough to be awarded club memberships. Two hundred and seventy nine members participated in the voting, where it was decided by secret ballot that photojournalists will, in fact, not be allowed general membership. By this act, the Kolkata Press Club has inflicting a deep sense of humiliation on the city’s press photographers. They have been made to feel insulted, simply as a result of what they do every day as a profession, even risking their lives to do it if need be.A writer can stay indoors in a war zone, a flood, a forest fire or during civil unrest but a photographer doesn’t have the luxury to do so. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when writers had the option to work from home, photographers were out there on the streets, capturing the misery and the chaos. The world could witness the heaps of dead bodies stuffed into shallow sand graves by the Ganga during the second wave because a photographer chose to travel and document them.An act of rememberingThe only way you remember moments that defined and changed the course of human...Read more

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