You can’t take pictures at Spitalfields, a funfair or a Disneyland car park.
You’re on shaky ground if you want to take pictures of children. (Though some are still doing it spectacularly.)
Should I have taken this picture?
I didn’t use a flash – no flash photography on the Underground. Just a straight, clear shot of another solitary person.
But I didn’t ask his permission.
And neither did the CCTV camera up high on his shoulder. Nor did it ask my permission on the way down the escalator.
Still, I could feasibly have been swept off on the grounds of “acting suspiciously and taking pictures“, and I wouldn’t be writing this now. They’re would be CCTV footage if it went to court, and a new government policy to back it up.
What does all this say about us? How does it affect the way we see each other?
