BJP's photography rights campaign

The British Journal of Photography has launched a visual petition in response to the growing number of photographers being stopped under anti-terror legislation. The campaign is designed to raise awareness and help change public perception.

Amateur and professional photographers alike are urged to submit pictures of themselves holding white plaques with the phrases 'I am not a terrorist' or 'Not a crime' written on them. These self-portraits should then be submitted to the specially created flickr group. BJP aims to gather thousands of these e-'signatures' over the coming year as a protest against the increasing restrictions photographers face.

You can take part in the debate here.

Feeling hot hot hot

So there I was, 6am Monday 29th June and already sweating. Some weeks I spend a lot of time at the studio, and some weeks I spend a lot of time on the road and on location. The studio is an oasis of calm and cool, even when it’s thirty degrees outside. So guess what I was mostly up to this week – a week that included the two hottest days of the year so far? Yep, on the road, in my un-airconditioned car and outside photographing fences, factories and fairways. Why is it that you never get asked to photograph industrial fridge interiors in the summer?

But we shouldn’t complain, right? This could be the only summer we get. And on the plus side my right arm is really tanned from hanging out of the car window in the good old M6 car park. So not only do I have the obligatory T-shirt shaped golfer’s tan, but one arm is a completely different colour to the other – great for comedy sketches, not much use for anything else. Now if I could just book a job in France I could even them up!