I'm a Photographer, Not a Terrorist!

you mean they get paid i'm a photographer and a terroist kinda thought they came as a package !

There is no such thing as political correctness. It is a myth. A seductive and powerful myth. The freedom to express has become repeatedly and increasingly curtailed by commercial pressures. Photographers have, with perfectly reasonable cause, sought to earn a living from images yet contributed to the myth. Hoodies that loitered while press ... See Morephotographers collected them as images of "failed" this or that are part of the myth. It is not about standing up to politicians. It is about standing up to the whole of the media that thrives on mythic images. The photographer who allows the publisher to crop an image "just so" is as culpable as the opposition politician that votes with the government and so inflicts another petty authoritarian moment on us all. There are no innocent parties in politics - neither politicians nor public.

OMG - we're doomed!

I have a camera therefore I must be a terrorist

Regards

Osama bin picture taking :o)

Lmfao.... Security Officers are want to be Police Officers... When he asked you if you wanted a punch. You should of asked him if he wanted to be arrested under the Offences Against The Persons Act? Lmfao... Security Officers are real fooking w**nkers. As most are just ex army rejects threw into a uniform ;)

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i agree andry we should all meet up somewere and prove once and for all were photographers not terrorists!

I used to campaign for Democracy - Free World - Free Speech when I was 14 and it was the Pirate Radio campaign in the 1960's-70's. We won and got commercial radio. It is a periennial problem with Government. We have to continue whatever the cost.

I know, like they keep reminding us "its a parlimentry democaracy" and nothing to do with us peasants except when they are after our vote. No matter who is in the driving seat everything stays the same.

I think that we should remind ourselves of the importance of war photographers. If the government percieve that we are in a holy war, then why persecute the messanger. I recommend that we take our pictures on film rather then digitally. Then we cannot be percieved as instant messangers of banned information rather than the recorders of a moment in history.

Tin foil hats at the ready, tell me when Lord!

Usually the reason for such apparent alarm is they might be photographed without their ID numbers, especially if they're beating you up for being democratic. Maybe the police ARE the government these days, or is that the other way round? It's all very confusing.

I don't suppose the Beeb would want their source of free news pics and vids drying up.