London Street Photography = Police Harassment..

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NOTE: These links have JUST been compiled so YOU have access to the information.  I did not write any of them, and I was not the first to post links to some of them.  Rather than send people all over, I posted them here.

Thanks to Chris Weeks for reminding me I was sitting on these links, with his blog on UBER.com

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There is a new poster campaign in London aimed at 'our kind' and by our kind i mean Street Photographers.  I have compiled a few articles regarding the new involvment by metropolitan Police.



Street photographers fear for their art amid climate of suspicion

Stop the aperture closing on street photography

Innocent photographer or terrorist?

Photography rights raised at MP event

You can't picture this - Video

Police defend anti-terror photo campaign

Photographic Rights, and the law

As it says in one of the articles,

"A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said the campaign is not intended to target photographers, amateur or professional.

She told us: 'It's part of a counter-terrorism campaign and one element is the camera element.'


Discuss..  What do you think of these ridiculous laws and harassments?

If you are a British Citizen, SIGN the PETITION and show the PM that photographers will not take this laying down!

petitions.pm.gov.uk/photograph…
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mhazzaa's avatar
in an authoritarian country you don't need to see what the laws say and permit .. you might get in detention or interogated for an hour just because you have a dSLR in the street and was walking "suspeciously" looking when you are trying to compose a good frame .

I am suffering in Egypt, unless i am at the touristic places like the pyramids .

and you know what , the law doesn't prohibit it ! :) I am a paralegal.