Obliged to Spy Blog for this link, to PhotographerNotATerrorist.org, who have loads of neat kit and downloadable campaign posters. Anyone who knows the safe end of a camera from the naughty one (and, having spent a lifetime with the things and ‘repaired’ a number of ‘camera faults’ clearly resulting from a lack of this arcane [...]
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About time too dept.
Posted in photography, tagged PhotographerNotATerrorist.org on 13 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NUJ: part of the problem
Posted in photography, tagged NUJ on 6 August, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A recent clarification of the legal status of photgraphy, from the Metropolitan Police, via The Register. I quote:
Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel.
I am obliged, as I [...]
Kodachrome: pah
Posted in photography on 23 June, 2009 | 14 Comments »
A certain amount of sentiment being expressed this morning (e.g. here and here) about the demise of Kodachrome.
My own collection of Pentaxes and their lenses started in 1968 and now fills several flightcases. I have been at it that long and I have to say I shan’t miss Kodachrome at all.
Kodachrome was awful. Quite apart [...]
Photography ‘permit’
Posted in photography, tagged mock permit on 15 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Obliged to Bishop Hill for reference to this, which is a defiance of the supposed law against photographing the police.
I am rather more taken with the American approach, found on Boing Boing. If the police are going to harrass photographers using made-up laws, why not fob ‘em off with a made-up ‘photography permit’?
Time someone [...]
‘Press cards’
Posted in photography, tagged NUJ, press cards on 14 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The British Journal of Photography once again quotes Mr. Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ, in terms which make it difficult to avoid the conclusion that NUJ policy is that it is perfectly acceptable for the police to persecute photographers in general, provided that they wave through with a polite salute members of his [...]
Closed shop
Posted in photography, tagged NUJ on 21 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The British Journal of Photography quotes a Mr. Jeremy Dear of the NUJ as saying:
‘Professional journalists carrying the press card should be free to work without harassment and intimidation.’
Unlike amateurs without press cards, Mr. Dear?
A closed shop, enforced by the police. Every union leader’s wet dream.
These guys are not on our side.
Goose/gander sauce incompatibilty
Posted in photography, tagged Google Street View on 17 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am obliged to The Lone Voice for reference to this item from Urban75. It is a guide to what photographers are legally allowed to do.
However, despite what the law says, this sort of thing is still happening, and the response in some circles to police being inconvenienced by the publication of footage of their [...]
War on photographers: BJP
Posted in photography, tagged police attacks on 7 April, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Quite
Posted in photography, tagged PSCHR on 24 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Human Rights {sigh}, quoted by the British Journal of Photography:
[It] is unacceptable that individual journalists are left with no option but to take court action against officers who unlawfully interfere with their work. Journalists have the right to carry out their lawful business and report the way in which [...]
It is forbidden to photograph the Soviet Union
Posted in photography, tagged Google Street View on 22 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
[A sign on the northern Soviet border, c. 1975]
Regular readers will be aware that I am firmly of the opinion that any company which finds it necessary to claim that it is not evil is, in fact, evil, and that therefore I do not do any business with Messrs. Google, nor use any of their [...]
