Police Campaign Against Photography!

The latest anti-terror scaremongering from the Met Police calls for the public to report anyone with a camera, just in case they turn out to be a terrorist!

It would appear that in the current state of paranoia the most evil person on the street is a photographer, strange to think that under current Met guidelines one of the greatest photographers of all time, Henri Cartier-Bresson would be outlawed from taking the shots that helped shape modern photography.

A few parodies on the Met poster have appeared online:

Remember if you change your way of life then you let them win, security doesn't need to mean reduced civil liberties - surely that was the reason for the war in Iraq in the first place.

Details of another classic Met campaign about the tools of terrorism and comment can be found here

May 2008