I recieved a reply from Mark Hoban the other day, more like a week ago, but still.

So here it is.

3 June 2008

Dear Mr Harris,

Thank you for your letter about photography in public places. I appreciate you drawing my attention to this issue, although I am not aware that the practice of official harassment is particularly prevalent. In general, however, I believe it is important that people are

Heres a copy of the letter I sent to my local MP, Mark Hoban.

Theres a downloadable template version available here.

Feel free to change it up however you want.

Heres the letter in plain text.

Let me know what you think of it.

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Sorry about this taking ages to update everyone.
Been busy faffing about with the backend of the website, trying to iron out some glitches, and trying to get the shop running properly, which it is now, feel free to go visit it here.

But back to the point.

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Well here's my first blog, and unfortunately, it has a bit of a political theme to it, which I know most of you will automatically think bollocks to, but it's important, so bear with it.

Recently there's been a lot of discussion on photography forums and pieces in photography magazines around the laws that govern photography in public places, and the harassment of photographers by members of the public, police officers, and vigilante security guards.
There's been cases of verbal abuse, physical abuse bordering on assault, and even cases of equipment being confiscated and/or images being deleted/film being taken.

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