Policing the Public Gaze
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kjahern
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Policing the Public Gaze, an interview with Pauline Hadaway, Director of Belfast Exposed Photography, exposes the way people are stopped from filming and photographing in public spaces for no good reason. It looks at the way unofficial photography of Belfast during the Troubles provided a useful counterpoint to official photography, and showed the political engagement of people, and gives a definition of a Jobsworth, (often voluntary safety officers or something similar) people with no legal authority to stop the photographer, and are acting completely outside their often quite limited authority, often without knowledge of the law. This film highlights how the arbitrary nature of stopping people frightens people into not taking pictures just to be on the safe side, but they needn’t be afraid, this is their democratic right, as it should be.
- 1 year ago
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kjahern
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Karenmcc
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Great film to watch if you regularly get stopped for filming in the street and want to know your rights. Make sure you also check out WORLDbyte's film 'Freedom to film'.
- 1 year ago
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Karenmcc
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CeriD
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Pauline makes some excellent points about today's pernicious distrust of anyone with a camera and tells us that in the past cameras in the hands of women and the lower orders were the stuff of panics plus of course there were times when our right to look was forbidden - gazing upon the king for example.
- 1 year ago
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CeriD
