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Advice for photography at public events (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Legit-NotADev@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Photography has been my hobby for a while now, but I often just take pictures of trains and boring stuff like that, and something that I’ve always been fascinated by is photography at large public events, for example protests, demonstrations or ceremonies (the two most prominent examples I can think of in recent times are Israel-Palestine protests or Remembrance parades which happened recently), but I have no clue how to go about it. I would only want to do it for personal interest and not for commercial purposes (if the pictures were published they would be in the public domain).

My question is pretty much how I would go about doing this. Should I wear specific clothing so the police can identify me? Is there any other precautions I need to take? I have no clue.

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[–] 206street@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As ~~protests~~ riots go, you should be prepared to accidentally catch some splash damage (tear gas, pepper spray, being kettled, etc) regardless of your clothing.

Fixed that for you. No protest should have tear gas or pepper spray...

[–] strangeweather415@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn’t, but cops do stupid shit all the time

[–] Legit-NotADev@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I live in the UK so perhaps it’s different where you are, but generally this kind of stuff isn’t used at the types of events I’d be interested in so I’ll be fine for that. And yes in the UK filming laws are very liberal so there’s no legal problem here.