Three-time World Press Photo winner Lu Guang has been detained by national security offices during…
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Turkish photographer Çağdaş Erdoğan has been arrested in Istanbul according to his agency 140journos. The photographer, who was featured in the British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch list earlier this year, is thought to have been arrested whilst taking photographs in Istanbul’s central Kadikoy district
Non-governmental organisation has called for French photographer Mathias Depardon’s immediate and unconditional release, describing his detention in Southeast Turkey since 8 May “completely unjustified”. Aged 30 and based in Istanbul, Depardon was arrested while doing a report on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for National Geographic magazine.