Sort by Thomas Hawk Digital Connection (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009 - YouTube
It is completely legal to photograph the Los Angeles Metro System.On October 31, 2009 while on my way home from the Hollywood and Highland area, I was...
Sort by Thomas Hawk Digital Connection (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
I was very disappointed to learn of the recent run in Photographer Right’s Advocate Shawn Nee had with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Officer Richard Gylfie. In the video above (edited down from 25 minutes to a little over 9 minutes) Nee documents an altercation he had with Sheriff’s Officer Gylfie while conducting the [...]
Sort by Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
The photographer “Discarted” has gone done it again and threatened national security by violating the laws of the MTA and taking photos of the Los Angeles subway system that he could very likely end up selling to Al Qaeda. Seems perfectly reasonable that he be detained by LA Sheriffs, right? If you can see this, then [...]
Sort by LAist (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Photo rights advocate blogger Shawn, otherwise known as discarted, recently was taking photos inside the Hollywood/Western Metro Station when two L.A. County Sheriff's approached him. Shawn, who always wears a video camera, caught his whole 25-minute ordeal and uploaded it to YouTube yesterday (an abbreviated version is posted above), sparking off some good debate on photographer's rights vs. public...
Sort by A Photo Editor (Free subscription) - 11/10/2009
Discarted a blog written by “photographers & concerned citizens living in Los Angeles. / With the goal to shoot photographs freely in public spaces wherever, whenever, of whoever. / And a desire to get the word out, educate and engage,” has video posted of an encounter with two LA County Sheriff deputies inside the Hollywood [...]
Sort by MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) - 11/13/2009
As an occasionally working photographer and filmmaker, this writer has gotten questioned by the authorities why he's taking photos, been asked to leave, and has seen a hand or two come into the viewfinder. Sadly, confrontation is like kryptonite, so backing down and running away is par for the course with him, even if we were in the right all along. Fortunately, as found by way of Design Info , there...
