"Street photographers fear for their art amid climate of suspicion"

I feel with the Britons.
Last summer I was photographer at the Scouts Jamboree in Hylands park. I know you need some rules to manage 40 000 people, but the British their rules were horribly in(s)ane... adults were even not allowed to put a band aid on a scratch!

Good luck to those who'll need it.
 
Those laws in France were passed at the time the M8 came out, which was around fall 2006.

Things do seem to be bad in Britain, but it is not as bad as it looks. If you've got half a brain it's very easy to get around without too much hassle, if any....


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i was around london-paris late last year and didnt find any major problems snapping away in the streets, even at the gates entering no. 10 (im asian btw)

i guess for some it's security and for us it's paranoia. kinda sad how the world lives at this era. sigh.

i just want to burn some tri-x.
 
Thanks for posting that article. Very interesting read, and excellent links from it. I Note that a couple of Matt Stuarts photographs are here in our gallery.

chikne said:
...Things do seem to be bad in Britain, but it is not as bad as it looks. If you've got half a brain it's very easy to get around without too much hassle, if any....
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I'm glad you chipped-in chikne. I've noticed that you are about the most frequent poster of London street snaps on this site and I was wondering how your personal experience squared up against the assertions made in that article and the many threads here.
 
Murray Kelly said:
Use your phone camera. Ultimately someone will have to acknowledge that you can't stop people taking pictures in public.
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As noted in the article - no one says anything about the thousands of surveillance devices taking photos of everything that moves on some streets, from ATM machines to convenience store anti-theft cameras to bank security devices to traffic signal cameras and even the police watching over us (or just watching us, you be the judge). Those - they're OK. Even if some private security guard is following an attractive bottom down the street with his remote control security camera and doing something unspeakable.

It's the *people* with cameras that must be feared. Ah yes, we're the dangerous ones. Bad, bad, us.
 
We need to move forward with the "Patriotic Street Photographers" or the "Street Photographers Against Terrorism" group. Initiate rather than retaliate. Demonstrate that we're part of the solution, not part of the problem.
 
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