PHOTOGRAPHER NOT A TERRORIST by BYRON
Australian photographers are losing their rights to freedom of expression. And it doesn’t matter whether they are full-time professional, part-time or strictly amateur, as every person who has a camera can be threatened with unjust laws and regulations.
The rights of Australian photographers and film-makers are being seriously affected by a myriad of rules and regulations that impose prohibitive restrictions, high fees, and bureaucratic application protocols.
What we should have in this country are simple rules – like they have in the national parks in the USA – which allow photography to be carried out in all places where the public can go.
Photo courtesy of Corri Gryting Gutzman who has bought a couple!
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Congrats on your sale, Byron!
Congrats on your sale Byron…..how did i know? Just read it above ☺ Very original design!
I hope there is a big turnout that Sunday. Great t-shirt Byron.
Love it! Have you had a incident like me? My incident gave birth to a t as well. Instant fav.
Great t-shirt! We get questioned here sometimes in the USA too.
Love this and have a feeling that I may have seen one or two at the Arts Freedom Australia Protest Rally?? Love the collage on the right too.
I was wearing it at the rally, and I understand that one other person was wearing one too.
Its based on the Arts Freedom Australia tee and one from a similar organisation in the UK.
– BYRON
Ooooh that means we crossed paths. Spooky.
I was rather dissapointed not to find a single RB member when I was there. I knew they were there… but I was not aware of who was going or if we were gonna meet-up or anything…
– BYRON
hmmm … its always funny if you’re taking long exposures on a tri-pod in a city… and the police talk to you … even if its in a VERY PUBLIC PLACE… like the yarra or fed square…
… and they seem to think that you might possibly be planning something, or breaking privacy rules…
And they dont understand that long exposures (3-6secs) will blur any moving object = people… even upon showing the pictures… (this guy must have been 50+) …probably needed reading glasses…
Wanted to confiscate the camera, so I told him that would be a breach of 1997 civil rights laws (i made that up on the spot… but it worked)
Insanity really is widespread it seems…
A friend of mine took a pic of a power plant and got a call from the police later that day… freaky?
At least I got some great flinders st pics :)
Flinders Street at night
If a cop wants to confiscate your camera… or your memory card [both of which they are not allowed to do] tell them that they will have to arrest yo first.
Then speak to your lawyer and sue the Police Department for unlawful arrest.
Fuck these nazis…
– BYRON
Cool, thanks thats great to know : – )
There really should be pamphlets or something on it!
I was taking photos of a pigeon inside the grounds of a hospital one day..i guess the thought the pigeon and i were conspiring together. Don’t they realise that if you wanted to be a terrorist you most probably would be taking pictures with your phone camera or something smaller? The security guy did feel rather sheepish asking me to stop photographing the pigeon.