Photography is becoming a crime

This evening I spotted the back page of The London Paper - one of the free papers handed out to clog up the tube, the kind of thing people read when their iPod has run out of battery etc.

Anyway back to the point. I’m slightly concerned about this advert, not just because I have a few shots of CCTV cameras around an about (I see them as short lived, they’ll go one day when we have chips divulging our GPS position at all times and we deposit DNA at every doorway).

I’ve a feeling that sometime this year someone’s going to report me for taking photos in and around London, or, I’ll have the sort of treatment a person had and be assaulted in a public place (although I know Waterloo isn’t a public place, it’s a no photography zone according to TfL - of course not without a license anyway… )

Hopefully this won’t change anything for me, but I guess some of my - shall we say - less “local” looking friends and contacts will get hassled.

What a price we pay for freedom

Update: most notably picked up by Thomas Hawk, Annie Mole, Nick Potter, Ed Zawadzki, Boing Boing, London MetBlog and Amatuer Photographer Magazine

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