{"id":392,"date":"2011-05-03T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=392"},"modified":"2015-10-15T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:41:00","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-a-photographer-not-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/03\/i%e2%80%99m-a-photographer-not-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_8616.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Please be aware this is private property\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-393\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/phnat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist!<\/a> (PHNAT), the campaign group set up to fight unnecessary and draconian restrictions against individuals taking photographs in public spaces, organised a flashmob outside London\u2019s City Hall today. Not a lot of people turned up (maybe between 70 and 100) but a letter was handed in to Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>What many people don&#8217;t know is that the land along the embankment between Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast is privately managed, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morelondon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"MoreLondon\">the company that runs it<\/a> has draconian restrictions on what can and can&#8217;t take place there. This is also true of many other places in London &#8211; Canary Wharf and Broadgate have similar restrictions. Try taking photographs with a professional looking SLR and see how long it is before you get stopped by one of their security guards. You score extra points if they start talking about &#8216;the terrorist threat&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_8603-06-Panorama.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Flashmob outside City Hall\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-394\" height=\"155\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royreed\/sets\/72157626638407572\/\" target=\"_blank\">There are a few more photos of the event at Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! (PHNAT), the campaign group set up to fight unnecessary and draconian restrictions against individuals taking photographs in public spaces, organised a flashmob outside London\u2019s City Hall today. Not a lot of people turned up (maybe between 70 and 100) but a letter was handed in to Boris Johnson. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29,28,26,65,27],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-city-hall","tag-flashmob","tag-phnat","tag-photography","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}