I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! invite all Photographers to a mass photo gathering in defence of street photography.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. PHNAT feels now is the time for a mass turnout of Photographers, professional and amateur to defend our rights and stop the abuse of the terror laws.
http://photographernotaterrorist.org
I went along with my parents, as Dad is a keen photographer too and had witnessed police hassling a street photographer in London recently. I wasn’t planning on taking any photographs, as I thought that it was obviously going to be well covered by everyone in attendance, but after people asked everyone to hold their cameras up for a… photo, I changed my mind.
Not sure what the fall out will be yet (in my experience, it’s often difficult to see repercussions from protests), but everyone seemed pleased with how it went and there has been a bunch of press coverage so far today. Our friend, Paul Treacy, was also there and took some awesome photos. A few of ours are below or you can check out the full set here!
