A letter in the British Journal of Photography:
[Photographers] were … charged by the five rows of riot police, beaten and trampled on… The police held us captive for seven hours, and if you were a freelancer and did not have a method of wiring your images out, your shots would have been on (stuck on memory cards) for many hours. I’m sure this is part of the police’s ‘kettling’ strategy to delay the flow of images to the world. I witnessed foreign news crews begging the police to let them out… Over the seven hours we could get no food or water or use of a toilet… I saw a photographer attacked by the police with the same ferocity as demonstrators who had provoked them. I saw one Canon body and lens smashed to pieces when the lensman was pushed to the ground by police. Of the 3000+ people detained for seven hours, I estimate that 100 to 200 wanted to fight the police, and half the remaining were media.
It seems to be clear that the police regarded photographers of this event as more of a ‘threat’ than the violent demonstrators who caused it.
Coincidence?
Hardly.
Secret policing; nothing to hide, nothing to fear
Very interesting.
One wonders what the GramscoFabiaNazis’ strategy is, in allowing more and more sophisticated and cheaper digital camerae, to be owned by ordinary persons. I could have bought a 10Mpixel machine, which would shoot reasonable sound and video, in Tesco this morning for £69.
I didn’t because I don’t need or want one, but there you go. But what’s the point of this hardware if you get it smashed up by the Gestapo if you go to record something interesting?
Electronic search terms;
Gestapo; gauleiter; terror; photogaph;, liberty; amnesty; chemical: developer; ammonium sulphide; hypo;
Kodak D76
The point of this hardware is to photograph one’s own flowers in one’s own garden. Removing the baby from the lawn first; one isn’t allowed to photograph those.
Oh, er, babies – yes sorry I forgot.