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Police detain young NUJ photojournalist for working taking pictures of Army cadets

This is pitiful – young NUJ photojournalist Jules Mattsson takes pictures of an army cadet parade and gets aggro from the police for doing so – maybe they should bone up on the law and the recent cases they’ve lost re: photography in public places. Nice that the NUJ and BJP are behind this photographer – and amazing that apparently to even question the law is to create a breach of the peace – ones created by the police. Nice logic there.

Of course you’ll get the people saying ‘why didn’t he comply?’ – well as a working NUJ photojournalist and in a public place, he has a right to take pictures. Also if we off-limit ANY pictures of children, even at official display events or parades where photography will obviously happen then that not only begets a future where children are going to be edited out or avoided from any future event shots, but also makes children feel uneasy and think that every photographer is a paedophile or terrorist, which is absolute bolocks.

And also when it affects photojournalists, like the Guardian journalist that was attacked and detained in Toronto this weekend at G20 – then you’re getting into censorship issues – it starts to be a special pleading excuse to stop any coverage at all to hide what’s really going on (doubt that would happen at an Army Cadet parade, but if this was extended to other events it would).

As an aside re: the G20 – 1) Black Bloc Tactic is a tactic not an official group afaik – and 2) like with the ‘anarchists’ at London’s G20 although not prone to conspiracy theories I’m really suspect that these people are really who they appear to be, especially as they (in London, as seem to in Toronto) were given free reign and the police stayed back while press stayed on hand to conveniently document – like in London with the conveniently empty-at-the-last-minute bank? It wouldn’t be the first time the police have used agent provocateurs. Might be tinfoil hat territory, but police and security services do infiltrate all groups, even have been shown to break the law and even allow murder…so who knows. if they are anarchists, they are fools because although it’s kind of heartening to see burning police cars, it falls exactly into what those G20 leaders want.

Back to photography and this guy – really this kind of thing is partly why I think I stopped taking pictures, I just don’t feel comfortable doing so anymore – it’s a worry in the back of my mind that some Stasi oik will take offence at some innocuous shot in public (I never take pictures of anyone without permission, rarely even crowd scenes) but when the likes of fish and chip shops, Xmas decorations and CCTV cameras are all off-limits apparently, who knows what is a ‘terrorist’ thing to do as the police are making it up on the spot.

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