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Attempts to stop street photograph - you help needed! | Forum |
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Forums: General discussion: Attempts to stop street photograph - you help needed!
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 Kuroi KyoPosted: 27th Mar 2008 Time: 6:57 PM |
Austin Mitchell MP (who is a keen amatuer photographer) has presented an early day motion in Parliament regarding photography in public places: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=35375&SESSION=891 If people want to agitate in support of this, they can write to their MP via this link: http://www.writetothem.com/ There are 647 members of Parliament, but only 91 have signed the petition - contact your MP and urge them to sign - the links above are all you need. Dave |
 WheelybirdPosted: 27th Mar 2008 Time: 8:58 PM |
Ha!
And people think this country's becoming a police state. Apparently that sort of thing happens a lot in America too; police ignorant of the law intimidating photographers just for the sake of it. It is frankly depressing. I shall write to my MP. His name is Alan Nasalhair! I wrote to him about ID cards, but he essentially told me I was wrong to be concerned about them. |
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mortcdz Posted: 28th Mar 2008 Time: 1:28 PM Updated:28th Mar 2008 1:29 PM |
Written to my MP this morning - there was an article on this in last Sunday's Times. In the UK the law is fairly unrestrictive when it comes to photographing people in public, and the majority of times the police are not on very solid legal ground if they ask you to destroy pictures - it's just the fear factor of "I'm in authority so do as I say" generally gets co-operation.
Personally I've never had a problem - I did get a policecar stop by me last year when photographing headlights off a bridge over the M5, but the policeman just asked if I was ok then drove off. Of course the wonderful irony is that on average in the UK each person is photographed something like 100 times a day on CCTV, but personal photography is becoming a no-no! |
 jennyjustjennyPosted: 28th Mar 2008 Time: 1:29 PM |
Thanks for drawing our attention to this.
And to think, I was never even that keen on Austin Mitchell before! |
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Tioadli Posted: 6th Apr 2008 Time: 7:51 PM |
This is something that really needs to be clarified by the ACPO. How about this for the authority syndrome mortcdz mentions. One of the things I do as I wander around on my days off is take pictures of people at work, who are obviously at work, like bus drivers, street cleaners, traffic wardens, anyone in uniform really, then I give them a card with the link to my photobox gallery where they can buy the picture of themselves. A PCSO told me I was not allowed to take his, or anyone else's picture in a public place, then told me to move along as I was a security risk as I was standing outside Westminster Station. I walked round the corner and took a picture of three armed response officers all standing around the red BMW they were in opposite Downing Street. Two of them bought 12x8 prints and I understand one of the pictures is on their office wall.
I find taking candid pictures in public is now a lot easier with digital gear as you can show your subject the pic you have taken if you get spotted. So long as you can show you are not being weird most people are okay with being caught on camera, most of the time they raise a smile if they see the picture is a worthy one. |
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mortcdz Posted: 26th Aug 2008 Time: 9:29 PM Updated:26th Aug 2008 9:31 PM |
Worth taking a look at www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php which has a great two page summary of photographers rights - a copy of which I now take in my camera bag just in case.
There's also a good summary of your rights at www.urban75.org/photos/photographers-rights-and-the-law.html |
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Tino Posted: 27th Aug 2008 Time: 9:13 PM |
You alway's seem so prepared Mark...I fell off my chair after reading this and after climbing back on,i've decided your the man. I'm gonna do this too when i stop laughing and print it off.
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