{"id":138,"date":"2009-09-11T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-09-11T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T19:45:08","slug":"authority-paranoia-over-photography-in-london-and-everywhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/authority-paranoia-over-photography-in-london-and-everywhere-else\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Authority’ paranoia over photography in London (and everywhere else)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Huge thanks to Jamie Gordon of Gordon Valiant Photography<\/a> for sending me a link to this video after he read my previous post.<\/p>\n

I think I am going to draw up a letter addressed to \"The Police Officer Who Has Just Stopped Me\" and always carry a copy with me when photographing. \u00a0It will explain how often this happens, cite the relevant laws and be signed by me. \u00a0That way the next time it happens I can just hand them a copy. \u00a0I'm sure that will grab their attention and get them talking in the station. \u00a0Hopefully they'll feel prompted to look up the laws and refresh their memory and the lives of photographers in this region will become easier.<\/p>\n

But! \u00a0Is Vivary Park public property or private land? What about the seating area in front of Cafe Nero? \u00a0I have been photographing in both these locations during this project. \u00a0The seating area outside Starbucks is a different case. \u00a0All the staff in there know me now and are aware of the project. \u00a0If they see me they just smile. \u00a0They know that if I'm taking someone's photograph then I will be coming up to the counter in the next few minutes buying a couple of coffees. \u00a0They also trust me not to pester people or cause a\u00a0nuisance\u00a0to other customers. \u00a0Does that passive acknoledgement count as granting\u00a0permission or is a letter needed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huge thanks to Jamie Gordon of Gordon Valiant Photography for sending me a link to this video after he read my previous post. I think I am going to draw up a letter addressed to “The Police Officer Who Has Just Stopped Me” and always carry a copy with me when photographing. \u00a0It will explain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}