Comments on: MBTA, What’s So Scary About Photography?

By: Orion

Orion — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:06:26 +0000

Nice

By: Ben D.

Ben D. — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:16:33 +0000

Good for you for sticking up for yourself. What a joke. This is also a great resource to keep on you:

http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:30:35 +0000

Just print the Flickr Badge from Big Huge Labs; that looks official and all.

By: Renaud

Renaud — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:21:56 +0000

I think Ryan should sell fake, but official looking photography badges that we can show glorified security guards and tell them, “I’m with the RPGA* and we cleared this with HQ, here’s my badge” Trust me, a good badge always works.

*RPGA: Renegade Photographers Guild of America

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:00:43 +0000

This is where living in the country were no one cares comes in handy.

By: Jason Windsor

Jason Windsor — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:39:14 +0000

This is where not being a photographer comes in handy.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:09:51 +0000

This is where being kind of tall and being somewhat “terrorist” looking comes in moderately handy.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:24:34 +0000

This is where not being tall and not being “terrorist” looking at all does not come in handy.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:06:35 +0000

This is where being tall and already “terrorist” looking comes in handy. I’ve been downtown, in public places, taking pictures (perhaps the huge camera helps too) and I can sense someone sideling up to me, I just stare the people down; and they say nothing (to my shock). This is happening all over the country. Paranoia. I think their time might better be spend watching the people jumping the turnstiles as they yell at you at the transit.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:01:58 +0000

My husband rocks, because he is my husband and because he defends the rights of artists everywhere.

By: M.A.T.

M.A.T. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:45:06 +0000

Photography is a terrorist act and should constitute jail time and severe interrogation for anyone taking photographs in public spaces. Including, but not limited to, train stations, airports, bus stops, museums, churches, birthday parties, public/state parks, weddings, graduations, and/or mall parking lots.

Terrorists could use photographs (see: terrorgraphs) to do harmful acts of terrible terrorism in/on/around our countries thoroughly perfect transit systems.

George W. Bush was right when he signed into law the beautiful and flawless Patriot Act of 2001, we need more Government control. We NEED Executive Power to control the masses. Without the brilliance of the current Government we would all be allowed to take photographs of public spaces and that could lead to widespread hysteria, terrorism, and global warming.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:38:30 +0000

I was yelled at by staff a number of times on the CTA platforms in Chicago, and one (non-staff) fellow told me that he had seen another photographer get arrested earlier in the day.

So … yeah. I took a few pictures anyway.