12 January 2009

Photographers are NOT terrorists

From NOTHING TO DO WITH ARBROATH via boingboing

http:/arbroath.blogspot.com/2009/01/photographers-criminalised-as-police.html

Reuben Powell is an unlikely terrorist. A white, middle-aged, middle-class artist, he has been photographing and drawing life around the capital's Elephant & Castle for 25 years.

With a studio near the 1960s shopping centre at the heart of this area in south London, he is a familiar figure and is regularly seen snapping and sketching the people and buildings around his home – currently the site of Europe's largest regeneration project. But to the police officers who arrested him last week his photographing of the old HMSO print works close to the local police station posed an unacceptable security risk.

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