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Perceptive readers may have noticed that some of this year’s Oregon Jamboree acts are noticeably missing in our photo coverage.

Here’s why: Due to an incident that occurred Friday evening, festival organizers decided to ban media photographers for the duration of the event.

I was allowed to photograph on a limited basis on Saturday, after some negotiations, but it was from afar, which is why we don’t have many close-up shots of the action after Friday.

Details of the actual incident, which, I’ve been told, involved at least one “media” photographer and a patron, are unclear t...