{"id":427,"date":"2008-10-23T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=427"},"modified":"2008-10-23T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:32:27","slug":"guy-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Guy in Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not an early Nov 5th story, but a kind of follow-up to my recent post Police attack Photographers<\/a> where I mentioned that a photographer was attacked by a police dog.<\/p>\n

On photographer Marc Vallee’<\/em>s blog, in the post Guy Smallman in\u00a0Afghanistan<\/a>, you can read about another incident in which the same photographer was injured. I’m not quite sure why, but the words that Oscar Wilde put into Lady Bracknell’s mouth about losing parents came into my mind.\u00a0 Guy certainly has suffered misfortune, but I think it is more a matter of working in dangerous places<\/a> rather than carelessness.\u00a0 And being rather cautious, as I tend to be (unkind people might call it timid) is seldom the best way to get good pictures. (You can see more of the Swiss incident in which he was injured on PigBrother<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on Marc’s blog<\/a> you can read a lot more about the problems that photographers have with police harassment. On Tuesday he was in the committee room when NUJ Gen Secretary was giving evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and he gives this link to the long video<\/a> of some of the proceedings. As he says, parts of it make interesting viewing, though there is a lot best fast-forwarded.<\/p>\n

Here in London, the police appear to have been easing off recently, especially over the SOCPA restrictions on demonstration.\u00a0 On October 11, ‘People in Common<\/em>‘ and others, including FitWatch<\/em>, staged a Freedom not fear 2008<\/em> event outside New Scotland Yard, although a smiling officer handed out the usual maps and warning, it seemed clear that while reminding people of the law they had no real intention of enforcing it.<\/p>\n

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But perhaps the strangest thing about the demonstration was the little person I photographed trapped inside the hood of a large black suit<\/p>\n

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More about that demonstration – and more pictures on My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not an early Nov 5th story, but a kind of follow-up to my recent post Police attack Photographers where I mentioned that a photographer was attacked by a police dog. On photographer Marc Vallee’s blog, in the post Guy Smallman in\u00a0Afghanistan, you can read about another incident in which the same photographer was injured. I’m … Continue reading Guy in Hospital<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues","category-photographers","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}