“A few photographs add up to a minor terror alert” – Paul Lewis, The Guardian.
“From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect” – Paul Lewis, The Guardian.
“We’re photographers, not terrorists” – Marc Vallée, The Guardian.
Last week my friend and colleague Paul Lewis took a walk in the City of London and ended up getting stopped and searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act.
I wrote a Comment is free about how society’s visual history is under threat.
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