Picturing Derry - ACE160.5

Ian Berry (international photojournalist) at his home, talking about his experiences of working in Northern Ireland. Some of Berry’s photographs, which he took almost by chance, of British troops beating up two youths. Berry says that the first newspaper he tried to sell these pictures to said they couldn’t use them. Another of the photographs. Berry says he was advised to leave Northern Ireland, but then discovered that a newspaper had published only his photographs of the youths throwing stones at the patrol which made him popular with the Army. Photograph of troops on the receiving end of missiles. Bryn Campbell (picture editor, London) says that what appears in newspapers is always a choice. He says that some photographers like to cover conflict situations in order to show what they can do. Talks about restrictions on taking pictures in the Falklands; suggests that more photographers should have been allowed to go there, but understands concerns about showing pictures of dead people on the British side.