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London’s Metropolitan Police Launches Anti Photography Propaganda Campaign
Image by Thomas Hawk
In what I can only view as disturbing and a travel surely to ask for more backlash against photographers, London’s Metropolitan police has established a fresh counter-terrorism PR campaign accomplished with anti-photography propaganda.The campaign is intended to boost people to turn in "inexact" appearing people that they see taking photographs."Thousands of people take photos every day," reads their advertisement being run in London’s better newspapers. "What if one of them seems odd?"Having personally been hassled in the past by the U.S. police while out piping, I care that this kind of a campaign will result in even more harassment for photographers traveling forward. In addition to police harassment, I think that this campaign also sends the improper message to people about photographers and photography. I think it encourages people to think suspiciously of photographers and to append to the climate of fear tied in with photography.Photography is not a crime. Taking photographs is part of a productive tradition of art, cultural commentary and existent documentation. I’m very let down seeing London’s Metropolitan Police make up one’s mind to take this course of action and worry that this sort of backward thinking will go on to spread the boogeyman myth that photographers and photography are the enemy when they very much are not.Having people report "odd seeming" photographers will only take crucial police time away from ways that it could better be expended in really contending crime and terrorism.Thanks Nick for this important heads up.On Digg here On reddit hereOn boing boing here
Street Photography, Madrid, España
Image by publikaccion.es
PUBLIKACCION | ENTRADANikon, D80, Street Photography, Madrid, España, 18-200mmPrimeros pasos en la modalidad de street photography por las calles más concurridas de Madrid en los ejes de Fuencarral, Gran Vía, Recoletos y Serrano. La street photography, o fotografía de calle, callejera, o urbana, es una modalidad de fotografía en la que el fotógrafo forma parte de la cotidianeidad diaria de las calles, reflejando con su cámara situaciones habituales mostrando una visión pura de la sociedad. Este tipo de fotografía es contemporánea teniendo su mayor representante en Henri Cartier-Bresson, iniciador de este tipo de fotografía y uno de sus mayores exponentes a lo largo de toda su vida. Muchos de los trabajos clásicos en este tipo de fotografía fueron creados en los períodos de 1890 a 1975, coincidiendo con el nacimiento de las cámaras portátiles o compactas, especialmente de las pequeñas 35mm