Photography is not a Crime

The BJP (British Journal of Photography) have just started an new campaign that I think we should all join. This could also be set up in other countries where photographers are having similar issues
Increasing concerns about terrorism, paedophilia, health and safety, personal privacy and plain old paranoia about pretty much anything Her Majesty’s subjects get up to has resulted in a deep mistrust of photographers.

Police routinely invoke anti-terror legislation to prevent photographers from carrying out their work, and photojournalists are constantly filmed at public gatherings and their details kept on an ever-growing database. Tourists, particularly foreign tourists, are also targeted by police, as was the case with an Austrian father and son recently who made the mistake of photographing a building of an extremely sensitive nature—Walthamstow bus station."
http://www.not-a-crime.com

by Gary Austin at Wed Jul 15 16:07:13 UTC 2009 Derby, United Kingdom | Bookmark | | Report spam→