There’s been a number of incidents for photographers around the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. After a California video artist and art teacher was stopped there by an officer of the MTA, a group met (including some Picture New York folks and a number of Brooklyn’s photobloggers) and did their thing one snowy afternoon in February.
In a different incident later that month,
“You can’t photograph that! It’s private property!!” rang out across the public sidewalk. Photographer Tracy Collins (a.k.a. threecee) refers to this occasion as another episode of “You Can’t Photograph That.”
photo courtesy of threecee
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
The city is considering comments about the proposed regulations until August 3rd. After that the regulations could pass into law. Here are some steps that you can take now:
1) Click here to email comments to the powers that be.
We’ve set up a sample letter that you can edit, and then just click to send automatically to the head of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting and all the City Council representatives on the committee that oversees that office.
2) Sign our Petition. Tell your friends to do the same.
3) Submit YouTube Video comments and Flickr Photographs relating to this issue. Tag them “PictureNewYork” and “CameraWars”. Send them to jcho@film.nyc.gov and to info@pictureny.org.Photos added to the PictureNY Flickr group will be displayed randomly in the top banner of this website.
4) Add a Picture New York banner to your website.
To place this Picture New York banner on your website, simply add the following html to your web page:
<a href=”http://pictureny.org”><img src=”http://pictureny.org/logos/pny_logo.jpg” width=”125″ height=”75″ border=”1″ alt=”PictureNY.org”></a>
There are more Picture NY banners available too.
5) Send personal comments in the mail or by fax. Personal, individualized comments that come through the U.S. Postal Service or by fax are worth their weight in gold. They’re not so common these days, so they’ll really stand out.
Address your comments to:
Julianne Cho
Associate Commissioner
Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting
1697 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
fax: 212.307.6237