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My Best Photos of 2011 Part 5: Occupy

Best of 2011 Part 1: Technology, Part 2: Boy Scouts. Part 3: Personal, Part 4: Sports
Best of 2010, 2009, and 2008
For me, the story of the year was the localized versions of the Occupy Wall Street protests. I spent days and nights covering OccupySF, Occupy Oakland and Occupy Cal. I pulled several double shifts and [...]

Posted 07 January 2012 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Occupy shuts down the Oakland Port for 24hrs

Another early morning to photograph Occupy Oakland. This time, the group of a couple hundred eventually grew to thousands to block trucks form entering most of the port. Even though the trucks were blocked for only a few hours, the longshoremen 8 hour shift was cancelled. The protestors did this three times and thus shut [...]

Posted 14 December 2011 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

In the New York Times

An image of mine of a Chinese container ship I photographed while on assignment for Thomson Reuters made its way onto the front page of the business section of the January 31st edition of The New York Times.

Posted 07 February 2011 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,