READY for WHATEVER’S NEXT
Still no word from the Mayor’s Office on Film about how they’re going to revise those camera regulations.
We want them to consult some photographers before putting anything out this time.
Here’s the round up from round one:
Petitions Delivered; City Agrees To Withdraw Regs
NYTimes: After Protests, City Agrees to Rewrite Proposed Rules on Photography Permits
Photo Credit: Not An Alternative
- posted Mon., Aug 13, 2007 at 7:28am
- filed in Take Action
- 1 Comment
September 6th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
The city should really consider these laws from the point of view of the artist. We are already running to make money here to survive as artists and work, produce for ourselves and for the city and for humanity. This is what photographers do. It is what we contribute to humanity, we are its mirror. Inappropriate work is not the hallmark of photography and that kind of work and invasion into the lives of others seldom goes anywhere, people don’t want to buy it, not the main stay of our society. If people are afraid of perversion we should consider how we got people in nyc to this emotional way of thinking. I am always under suspect everytime anyone sees my camera. I am insulted all of the time for taking even photographs of inannimate objects. I do collage, that is what life is especially in this city. I was raised in the deep south and I am shocked to see these kinds of paranoid ideas take hold in New York City. From where I stand viewing life, once when i pulled my camera out to work, people were curious and open and respectful and now as a society we are planting again and again reason/seeds to be suspicious. Humanity can’t suvive if we teach other to distrust each other and we can’t repress things that we don’t understand, is that not what the moral majority in this country does, why is NYC now adopting such an attitude. Where are artist to go to live and work and continue to offer humanity an honest look at itself in its beauty and complexity. Why promote negativity. Why are you teaching our fellow citizens to find us/photographers suspect? It is awful for us. I’ve been a photographer for more than twenty years.
Thank you for the opportunity to voice my feelings as this matter concerns my entire existence, iIalways have a camera in my hands ready to work/ record/ create the beautiful and difficult rhythm of humanity.
A. Michele Turner photographer a former Alabamaian