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Photographers images deleted by police


Posted on Sunday, 08 February 2009 01:56PM by Editor
Sadly we are only able to report more doom and gloom in the world of photography. This time the British Journal of Photography is reporting from The St Albans Review publication how a police officer deleted a journalists pictures of people enjoying sledding in the snow because the pictures represent an act of voyeurism.

In another move that seems to victimise seemingly innocent photographers reporter Alex Lewis snapped some photographs on his mobile phone on the 3rd of February in Stanborugh Park. The BJP describes how he was then threatened by a man who seemed to be under the impression that he was photographing his children for "sexual purposes".

Mr Lewis actually called the police, however when they arrived an officer informed him that his mobile phone would have to be confiscated as evidence "for a charge of voyeurism" unless he complied with their requests to delete the images.

The BJP elaborates further about the charge of voyeurism, "the Sexual Offences Act 2003 introduced the offence of voyeurism. "The act defines a "private act", in the context of this offence, as an act carried out in a place which, in the circumstances, would reasonably be expected to provide privacy, and where the victim’s genitals, buttocks or breasts are exposed or covered only in underwear; or the victim is using a lavatory; or the person is doing a sexual act that is not of a kind ordinarily done in public.

The St Albans review has contacted the Hertfordshire Constabulary and asked exactly how photographs of people who are fully clothed in winter in a public park fall under this legislation, however they have not yet received a response.


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