Fotografiskt

Antiterroristlagstiftningen i Storbritannien ställer till med problem för fotografer, vilket en kampanj vill uppmärksamma:

Photography is under attack. Across the country it that seems anyone with a camera is being targeted as a potential terrorist, whether amateur or professional, whether landscape, architectural or street photographer.

Not only is it corrosive of press freedom but creation of the collective visual history of our country is extinguished by anti-terrorist legislation designed to protect the heritage it prevents us recording.

This campaign is for everyone who values visual imagery, not just photographers.

We must work together now to stop this before photography becomes a part of history rather than a way of recording it.

Idag klockan tolv, alltså om en dryg timme, anordnar kampanjen en fotografisk flashmob på Trafalgar Square. Följ utvecklingen via Twitter eller på Flickr.

jag är inte i London utan i Lund men i vanlig ordning tar jag med mig M3:an på min lördagspromenad om en stund. Det känns skönt att det är tillåtet …

Update Evenemanget tycks ha lockat många människor.

I work for a company that manufactures fitness equipment. While working on a new marketing piece, I found myself in the seemingly normal situation of needing a general stock photograph of an overweight person. Given that the majority of Americans are overweight, acquiring this picture should be no big deal, right? Well, I was mistaken.
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But what struck me the most here is how the business model of stock photography — make available the pictures you know people will like, because those pictures sell — is a direct reflection of our worldview. As a culture, we have taken the idea of “overweight” and completely blocked it out. Even though the majority of Americans are overweight, their appearance in run of the mill, stock-photo-driven advertising is extremely limited.

Design Observer analyserar relationen mellan stockphoto-firmornas utbud och våra samhällen.

Det är liksom öppet mål för den som vill skriva en c-uppsats i etnologi eller sociologi och är intresserad av foto; hur ser världen enligt Corbis, Getty images eller deras konkurrenter, ut?

[via Avisualsociety.]