BBC Viewfinder: I’m a photographer…
This is all about the problems some photographers have been having taking pictures in ‘sensitive’ locations, particularly in London; these places have also included shopping centres, many of them privately owned even though they appear public. The magazine Amateur Photographer have printed many letters from photographers complaining about having been stopped by the police and even required to delete their pictures.
I’ve never had this particular experience, but when I first got my digital SLR in 2007, I was taking pictures of trees in a nearby playing field in New Malden, and two guys passed behind me and one of them said to the other that I was ‘noncing’. A ‘nonce’ is a paedophile. There were boys in the playing field, but why is it that we (men in particular) can’t take pictures when there are children around without being accused of something as dreadful as this?
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I had a female colleague from Canada who commented on the second issue one snowy day when she hoped to go up the hill to watch the sledgers. Her moan went something along the lines of England being the most paranoid society she has ever known, and that she would probably be arrested in that pursuit or else driven away by protective parents. It must be quite depressing being a child today - adults don’t smile at you and say hello; they frown and turn away.
I posted about this last summer. Similar title too
http://thatmashguy.blogspot.co.....rvert.html