The Photographer’s Right

Please check out something I have found out in the net... I currently have waivers just like most photographers and I will post what I am using currently... however, all photographers should know their rights...

go here... http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm ...

There they will give you information of what a photographer in the US is able to do..

I don't know if anyone has posted anything like this, i do see discussion about the subject though...

They have a *pdf about this subject @ http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf also ...

I hope this helps those shutter worries.. ;)

J

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Permalink Reply by Hermes on November 20, 2008 at 1:02pm

This is becoming a serious issue, not only in the US. It seems that what once passed for an innocent pastime is now seen as threatening. See these examples from the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7351252.stm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/police_photographer_stops/

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Leason on November 20, 2008 at 3:04pm

thanks for more info, this is a bad issue! We have rights and all of us should know them!

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Permalink Reply by Anne Brink on January 6, 2009 at 4:36pm

That's an extremely helpful site- I carry a printout of the .pdf around in my camera bag, since I live just outside of Washington DC, land of stealth-no-photo-zones and suprisingly secret buildings. "You can't photo here." "Oh, where is it posted?" "It isn't. You can't photo here. Move along."

Usually, the folks who tell me to point that camera elsewhere have been nice, but not always.

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Permalink Reply by Rebulous on January 19, 2009 at 2:08am

But of course the Government (any Government - they're all the same at the end of the day) can take as many pictures of *us* as they want.

Try taking photographs of an Embassy Row in any city. I used to enjoy photographing Embassy Rows in cities I visited because I was interested in the flags of the various countries and the architecture of their embassies. I was in Brussels this past year photographing their Embassy Row. I was standing right across the road in plain sight, not covert in any way, and a plainclothes guard approached me and told my I couldn't do that. I apologized for the stupid behavior of my country's government that had reduced us to such a sad state of affairs. And it truly is sad, that the human race, for all its intelligence(?), can be so disillusioned and led around like so much cattle.