Chris W
Chris is an amateur photographer of both mainline and London Underground/TfL railways and particularly enjoys studying and capturing the relationship between passengers, enthusiasts and transport. More recently he has ventured into street photography after completing a Photographing London course at the Bishopsgate Institute in 2008. Chris is one of four administrators of the District Dave London Underground forum and has several Fotopic galleries where he uploads his images divided between Mainline, Preserved Railways, London Underground/TfL railways, a General site featuring his photography away from the railway arena and also a Flickr Photostream. When he has any spare time Chris is an IT Trainer for an industry leading global real estate firm based in the City of London.
The Data Protection Act versus photography
Perhaps naively I hadn’t thought about the implication of the DPA upon photography before… The DPA was written in the infancy of the internet. Today there are more implications of revealing personal information.
An unhealthy society?
How have we allowed ourselves to become so narrow minded to make an embarrassed grandfather feel obliged to delete his innocently taken photos fearing he has been labelled a predatory paedophile?
What can happen when nobody knows the rules
It’s becoming clear that senior railway managers know that enthusiasts should be able to take photos of rolling stock and of stations, but for whatever reason some staff on the ground are not hearing the message, or are choosing not to listen
If you have nothing to hide, you have everything to fear
Laws are created to hold those that misbehave in society to account, whilst at the same time protecting both them and society from any abuse of the same laws by those on the ground. Most of us are not fully aware of our rights and as ignorance is no defence in the eyes of the law…
Guest Post: We need to get our own house in order too
Guest contributor Chris W is a keen railway photographer. In this post for PhotoLegal, he explains that while confrontations between enthusiasts and railway staff are on the increase, photographers need to check their own behaviour too.
