I’m A Photographer Not A Terrorist!

was a event at Trafalgar Square in London and yes WAS is the right word for this post. For some strange reason I didn’t hear about this until it was too late to post it on the site as a upcoming event . Well well you can’t know everything in time but hey even if that event was at January 23rd 2010 the problem still remains in Great Britain but in other countries as well.

I’m A Photographer Not A Terrorist! is a organisation to gather people in defence of street photography.
Since 9/11 countries around the world have tighten the leash of what you can and can not do especially street photography. Photographers like kids, tourists, amateur, professional, whether landscape, architectural or street photographers can’t take a picture before a security guard put’s his greasy, slobby hands in front of your lens and can take you into custody, take the camera or forbid you to take photographs on that site and asks you to leave at once.
People have been taken into custody and questioned for some time before they get released with no charges. Many people report that the police and security guards in the UK are miss using the anti-terrorist law.

I’ll quote “Following a series of high profile detentions under s44 of the terrorism act including 7 armed police detaining an award winning architectural photographer in the City of London, the arrest of a press photographer covering campaigning santas at City Airport and the stop and search of a BBC photographer at St Pauls Cathedral and many others.”

I just want to spread this message to all the photographers out there (from children to Pro:s) who haven’t heard of PHNAT (I’m A Photographer Not A Terrorist!) to go to their website and learn more about what you can do to support the photographers rights!