BJP documents Terrorism Act photography event
February 16th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Photography, Press freedom and ethics
The British Journal of Photography (BJP) is covering the photographic ‘event’ against the new Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, which comes into force today, with live updates and images posted to Twitter.
A Facebook group for the gathering outside New Scotland Yard in London describes the event as ‘NOT a protest! It’s just photography!’
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is also supporting the action against the act, which makes photographing a police constable (”Eliciting, publishing or communicating information about members of armed forces etc”) an offence.
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February 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
[...] BJP documents Terrorism Act photography event | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog – “The British Journal of Photography (BJP) is covering the photographic ‘event’ against the new Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, which comes into force today, with live updates and images posted to Twitter.” Important stuff [...]