There are problems with photographers' rights on both sides of the atlantic. Police officers, security guards and citizens are often taking the (imagined) law in their own hands and harassing both professional and amateur photographers who are doing nothing wrong or illegal. In the US it is often suspected "terrorist" activities, in the UK the big hysteria is children in photos. (Why anybody would be fearful of peadophiles getting their sweaty hands on photos of fully clothed children, I can't imagine.)
Find some current UK news here and here.
Well, at least the government is not involved yet, see the article in Amateur Photographer.
My uncle was arrested for taking pictures of a police car. He collects them (models ect.) He was booked on suspicion of being a terrorist. He's a painter lol. What's he gonna do, terrorize people with his paint brush?
ReplyDeleteAnother friend of mine was arrested for photographing a nude woman inside her own home! She was 19.
He's still in jail. No bond was allowed! Obscenity they called it!
The woman's sister was escorted out of a local tavern because she was wearing tight jeans that exposed part of her underwear!
She was banned for life at the bar!
Yep, good ole Bush would have made the gestapo proud!
Tripods can be deadly.
ReplyDeleteI've seen "War of the Worlds".
And wearing clothes doesn't protect you one bit! If they "shoot" you, you're disintegrated regardless. What parent would tolerate THAT?
Monsters, that's what they are!