Tag Archive: United Kingdom

UK is Photographing the Watchers

Early last year I commented on some notion running around the United Kingdom that photographers would need to carry ID cards.  With the U.K. being one of the most CCTV happy countries out there, most of my British friends are very comfortable with being photographed in public and didn’t think much of a silly rule [...]

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ID Cards? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ID Cards!

I recently stumbled across an interesting photography news item out of the United Kingdom. There is a very confusing petition that was posted on the Downing Street E-Petitions website by Hampshire-based photographer Simon Taylor protesting against the following vague notion: There are a number of moves promoting the requirement of ‘ID’ cards to allow photographers [...]

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