Encouraging street photography

Larky said:
Let's do a competition. I have hosting space on a fast sever with unlimited bandwidth if you need a place to host it all. I also have access to a gallery in Norwich almost whenever I want.

I'd be well up for being involved some how.
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I really do want to do something. After having a baby, I need an excuse to get the boyfriend to go walking with me in Des Moines.
 
Roger, we had at least 1 contest for a year on this site(older members will tell more about that). Last contest was inspired by HCB's street work ... the rules was very interesanting: to shoot
with RF camera & 50mm lens(or f.l. close to 50mm). 3 shots from one photographer. The prize was incredible! ZI body + 50mm f:2 ZM lens!( donor was pop-photo). Top 10(or 12) shots gallery was very, very nice ...
Regards, Vlad
P.S. Nice to see you again on RFF Steph, all best to baby-girl!
 
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There appears to be a great deal of govermental and privately sponsored "street" photography already going on. Consider the traffic cameras, red-light cameras, street corner cameras, home security cams, business surveillance cameras, ATM cameras, lobby-cams, dorm cams, carwash cams, nanny cams.... Not to mention everybody snapping away with their phone cameras and posting video to CNN and You Tube 24 hours a day ad nauseum.

I believe any government that really looks at such a proposal would consider it redundant.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Encouraging street photography

...and getting anti-criminal and anti-terrorist security on the cheap.
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It sounds enough like the East German Stasi, that maybe my government would go for it.
 
Suggestion from Frances:

Put it up as a petition on the Downing Street web-site.

I'd do it myself but (a) I'm old and tired and lazy and (b) I don't live in the UK.

Any takers? I'll try to garner magazine support if anyone is willing to try...

Cheers,

R.
 
gb hill said:
Just think of the reverse theology of all this. Next time Bozo the rent a badge or some other nosy comes up to you and ask what are you doing? Just tell them you are a photographer for Homeland Security, (or some sort) and are out photographing the community for the ensure of keeping our streets safe from terrorist & crooks, perverts, etc.. We can become like the Guardian Angles in NYC. Instead of being the intimidated we then become the intimidators.;)
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We should all get t-shirts and hats, just like the Guardian Angels. A neat idea...
 
Project Name: Snap Back!

Project Name: Snap Back!

OK, everybody on the street carry a camera.

Whenever someone takes your picture.... Snap Back!

If everyone is taking pictures, the pervs, pedophiles and terrorists will disappear.... hmmmm?

Of course, now we end up with candid shots where everybody's face is obscured by a camera and a left or right hand.
 
I made that excellent summing up of our rights in the UK into a nice little PDF, well a big multi-page A4 PDF, but it still can be printed small. If anyone wants the original Pages document PM me.

www.ingenieursonline.co.uk/UK Photographers Rights 2008.pdf
 
I love the idea but isn't it missing the piont a little, surely the problem is not as much the government as public opinion. I live in ireland and we don't have as much of an institutional problem as a social one, but the public reaction to photographers makes street photography infuriating, and largely fruitless.
 
What Dogman said. If the government can photograph anything they want, so can we. Government is of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Great thread, Roger! Great thread!
 
jimi-the-jive said:
I love the idea but isn't it missing the piont a little, surely the problem is not as much the government as public opinion. . ..
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Not really. The point is, in part, to turn public opinion around so that photographers are portrayed as The Good Guys, not The Bad Guys; as Part Of The Solution, not Part Of the Problem.

The raw capitalism of the prizes will guarantee plenty of participation and the red-top papers will soon come on board when they realize the potential for Citizen Journalism.

('Red tops' is the UK name for the cheap press, with their red mast-heads)

In Ireland, you could do three monthly prizes: 10,000, 5,000 and 1,000 euros plus 10x 100 euro runner-up prizes -- 17,000 a month, 204,000 a year -- and a grand annual prize of 50,000. That's just over a quarter of a million euros. You then need premises and a small secretarial staff (2 people?), plus expenses for judges. You could run the whole thing for half a million a year, which is dirt cheap by security standards...

In the US, do it on a state by state basis -- same prizes, but in dollars -- with a national prize of $100,000. Total cost $50 million a year at the outside?

Cheers,

R.
 
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