Category Archives: We are terrorists now

Tangled Shattered Web

This is how I like colour in photographs

Greenwich Millenium Village
The colour is the photograph. This is why I like Saul Leiter’s colour work so much. Form and structure are so often obscured by colour. Larry Sultan, Martin Parr and ‘big colour’ exponents excepted.

Laban, Deptford (library window)
I expect the library window is mended now, it is...

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PiTA

Could it have been because I was the only non-suit descending the escalators at Canary Wharf?

Or maybe their x-ray vision spotted that I had a bag full of camera gear because I was on my way to a photo assignment. Either way, I’m a photographer not a terrorist.
“I’m guessing you must get this all the...

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Mass Photo Gathering In Defence Of Street Photography

Dear viewer, look away now if you don’t like grainy poorly exposed and focused B&W photos…
I pushed Tri-X to 1600 and in a fit of madness developed it in Rodinal. Since I was also guessing exposure and zone focusing the results are somewhat ‘interesting’. The images look slightly better resized when you click them.
It was...

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Mass Gathering In Defence Of Street Photography *Today*

Today! 12 Noon Trafalgar Square, London
I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! invite all Photographers to a mass photo gathering in defence of street photography.
Street photography…

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Mass Gathering in defence of street photography

12 Noon
Saturday 23rd January 2010
Trafalgar Square
I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! invite all Photographers to a mass photo gathering in defence of street photography.
Following a series of high profile detentions under s44 of the terrorism act including 7 armed police detaining an award winning architectural photographer in the City of London, the...

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We will all be terrorists on 16th Feb 2009

This is from the British Journal of Photography online. Holy shit… How far does this authoritarian government go before the tipping point towards fascism is reached? Are we there now? If I was a threat to this country I’d be pissing myself with laughter. I wouldn’t have to do anything to disrupt and frighten the...

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We are about to enter a dangerous period in the UK…

In my not so humble opinion we have already entered it… there is a war on photographers/photographing in the UK

A call to all concerned with attacks on our fundamental rights and freedoms under pressure from counter-terrorism, financial breakdown and the database state

What are the threats?
What can be done about them?
Why should everyone care?

Saturday 28 February...

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