Comments on: Photographers’ rights in UK remain undefined as harassment continues

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:05:25 +0000

Although I understand the implications of executive officers (i.e. the police) censoring media coverage of events, one has to remember that “police are people too”.

Imagine someone walked into your office and started putting their camera right up in your face. Now, is it really that unreasonable if you push the camera’s view out of the way, maybe even push the photographer out the way too? Obviously this analogy doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny given the public setting and role of the people involved, but the policemen didn’t stop anyone taking photos, they just objected to the photographers not doing what they were told.

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:13:40 +0000

The UK government clarified the situation this week by responding to an e-petition on the subject. It's still too vague for my liking though, and just goes to show what a mess this country (the UK) is in...

By: Carlos Miller

Carlos Miller — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:02:26 +0000

What I like about people in the UK is that they’re not accepting these acts lying down. They are making a stand against these actions.

http://carlosmiller.com/2008/07/07/a-salute-to-our-photograher-cousins-across-the-pond/

Maybe you can do something like this over there with your new camera. What kind did you get?

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:55:49 +0000

I didn’t say it was absolute, there is always room for interpretation, but the U.K. doesn’t have the Constitution anyway. And to think I wanted to move there because it was pretty.

By: visiblevoice

visiblevoice — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:39:15 +0000

sorry misspelled email address

By: visiblevoice

visiblevoice — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:37:49 +0000

we were assured by the (new labour) government that anti-terrorist laws would protect & not diminish our freedom to carrying on living a “normal life”. We were lied to, as the examples of photographers being hassled & arrested, illustrate.

By: Carlos Miller

Carlos Miller — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:40:46 +0000

Scott,

Interesting cases and there are no absolutes. But as much as I complain about photography rights abuses in the U.S., I can see they are much worse in the U.K.

Genewitch,

Thank you, sir. I had a relaxing day. Because my family is Colombian, we celebrate and exchange gifts on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day.

Christmas Day is to nurse hangovers.

Bub,

Thanks for stopping by. I wrote a whole series of articles during the RNC. Check them out here.

http://carlosmiller.com/?s=rnc

By: Bub

Bub — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:45:31 +0000

Hi Carlos,
great site, will bookmark it.
The harassment of photographers shown in the above video reminds me of the atrocious behavior of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Dept. during the run-up to RNC 08 in St. Paul.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

By: genewitch

genewitch — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:41:15 +0000

hope you had a good yesterday, sir!