Like Skateboarding, Photography Is Not a Crime
Just the other day, this writer was running around the city on a film shoot for a project with a budget of about $1.50. A handful of shots required being on the El trains, on the tracks above the city. We knew it was illegal and we’d likely get kicked off, but the shots needed to be had, and so we hiked up the stairs and took our chances. Within seconds, we were yelled at and escorted off the platform, being told it was illegal to take photographs or shoot moving pictures. So, of course, we just drove to the next stop, stuck the camera in a bag, and snuck on to the platform and into the train, no problem. Granted, we had a big film camera we were using, not just a little consumer handicam, but still, no matter the size of the image capturing device, you’ve likely had this happen to you as well. So a smile came when reading Bruce Schneier‘s op/ed for The Guardian, “Are Photographers Really a Threat?” It concerns the idea that terrorists are going to be snapping photos of everything before they start doing their terrorist things, despite that never ever having happened in any recent attack. Schneier’s deduces that the reason governments decide to ban photography or video cameras in “sensitive areas” is that that’s how the terrorists do it in the movies, so clearly that’s how it must happen in real life. If you, or anyone you know, has had that experience of being pointlessly shut down, even when just trying to take a meaningless photo of something interesting, it’s a read meant just for you.
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Nadine Cheung
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