Nigel Meaby
Well-known
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=154460471&ocid=today
Should be interesting to see which way this story goes. Wait for some more detail before forming an opinion.
Should be interesting to see which way this story goes. Wait for some more detail before forming an opinion.
Turtle
Veteran
No real info there. Could be just another case of parental paranoia or something much worse. its not unusual for known offenders to be followed by cooperating European police forces and then nabbed as soon as they start 'doing their thing.'
Certainly photographing children is very much harder now. I love photographing children and have spent a lot of time doing so in Afghanistan as part of a wider project. I am very sure that were I to have done in the UK what I have done here I would already have been questioned. I find children fascinating and amusing but thats quite hard to explain to someone who does not understand what your photography is about. The simple question is 'but why?' as if the mere possibility of being considered a pervert would ensure that anyone would drop their legitimate interest in the state that we all pass through before becoming adults! In Afghanistan I have been photographing a group of children at a particular location. I find it enthralling to watch them interact and to see how there are perfect similarities with my own children as well as often shocking reminders of the differences brought about by the environment (often in the form of cruelty or spontaneous violence to each other when a resource is scarce). In simple terms, children can be a wonderful window into understanding what we are and why. Photography can beautifully capture those moments of realization. To the average paranoid parent, such an explanation might sound like a cover story....
Certainly photographing children is very much harder now. I love photographing children and have spent a lot of time doing so in Afghanistan as part of a wider project. I am very sure that were I to have done in the UK what I have done here I would already have been questioned. I find children fascinating and amusing but thats quite hard to explain to someone who does not understand what your photography is about. The simple question is 'but why?' as if the mere possibility of being considered a pervert would ensure that anyone would drop their legitimate interest in the state that we all pass through before becoming adults! In Afghanistan I have been photographing a group of children at a particular location. I find it enthralling to watch them interact and to see how there are perfect similarities with my own children as well as often shocking reminders of the differences brought about by the environment (often in the form of cruelty or spontaneous violence to each other when a resource is scarce). In simple terms, children can be a wonderful window into understanding what we are and why. Photography can beautifully capture those moments of realization. To the average paranoid parent, such an explanation might sound like a cover story....
John Lawrence
Well-known
As the OP says, more information is needed to form any kind of opinion.
Prominent in the minds of many will be the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann
John
Prominent in the minds of many will be the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann
John