Kodak Deletes Post by Photographer Who Called Xinjiang an ‘Orwellian Dystopia’
The American company Eastman Kodak has deleted an Instagram post featuring images of Xinjiang, a western Chinese region where the government is accused of grave human rights violations, after an online backlash from Beijing’s supporters.
The post was promoting the work of the French photographer Patrick Wack, who made several trips to Xinjiang in recent years and has collected his images into a book. The project received a lift last week when Kodak shared 10 of his images — all shot on Kodak film — with its 839,000 Instagram followers.
Source: NY Times #Jul21
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/world/asia/kodak-instagram-china.html
#Kodak #Photographer #Xinjiang #Beijing
The American company Eastman Kodak has deleted an Instagram post featuring images of Xinjiang, a western Chinese region where the government is accused of grave human rights violations, after an online backlash from Beijing’s supporters.
The post was promoting the work of the French photographer Patrick Wack, who made several trips to Xinjiang in recent years and has collected his images into a book. The project received a lift last week when Kodak shared 10 of his images — all shot on Kodak film — with its 839,000 Instagram followers.
Source: NY Times #Jul21
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/world/asia/kodak-instagram-china.html
#Kodak #Photographer #Xinjiang #Beijing
Kodak Removes Instagram photos of Uyghurs' Mass Imprisonment in Xinjiang and Apologizes After Being Snipped by Chinese Netizens
Kodak, a camera equipment company, published photos of Xinjiang taken by a French photographer on Instagram. The post mentioned Xinjiang Uyghur human rights issues, causing dissatisfaction among Chinese netizens and left many messages under their Instagram account. Kodak then deleted the photos and published a statement at midnight, emphasizing that the post was not written by the company but by the photographer. They pointed out that their Instagram “is designed to promote creativity, not a platform of commencing politics" and apologized for the misunderstanding and offence caused by the post.
Chinese netizens forwarded the post to Weibo and launched a crazy flood to Kodak and Wack's accounts. Many Chinese netizens left messages on Wack’s posts “talentless and catch the eyeballs ideology” and “regardless how beautiful the picture is, if bias comes in place, the photographer will put a layer of filter on it”. Some Chinese media criticized, “Under Wack’s lens, the magnificent of Xinjiang is attractive but also carrying hidden messages”. Somebody supports him and praises his shots under his posts.
Source: Stand News #Jul20
https://bit.ly/3xoFpJr
#China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Kodak #Wack #HumanRights #Instagram #Weibo
Kodak, a camera equipment company, published photos of Xinjiang taken by a French photographer on Instagram. The post mentioned Xinjiang Uyghur human rights issues, causing dissatisfaction among Chinese netizens and left many messages under their Instagram account. Kodak then deleted the photos and published a statement at midnight, emphasizing that the post was not written by the company but by the photographer. They pointed out that their Instagram “is designed to promote creativity, not a platform of commencing politics" and apologized for the misunderstanding and offence caused by the post.
Chinese netizens forwarded the post to Weibo and launched a crazy flood to Kodak and Wack's accounts. Many Chinese netizens left messages on Wack’s posts “talentless and catch the eyeballs ideology” and “regardless how beautiful the picture is, if bias comes in place, the photographer will put a layer of filter on it”. Some Chinese media criticized, “Under Wack’s lens, the magnificent of Xinjiang is attractive but also carrying hidden messages”. Somebody supports him and praises his shots under his posts.
Source: Stand News #Jul20
https://bit.ly/3xoFpJr
#China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Kodak #Wack #HumanRights #Instagram #Weibo