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June 27, 2008
Photographer harassment has become a hot topic as photographers are increasingly being treated as perverts and terrorists. It is not clear that you would be able to take this kind of work today. It is much safer to do this. Or this.
Basically though, if you are on public property, you can shoot it. However, public property and publicly accessible places are two different things. Train stations and beaches are public property, Westfields and other shopping malls aren't. They are private property. See Andrew Nemeth's excellent account.
The irony is that if you go to a shopping centre, service station, train station, carpark, office block (your office block) then you are probably being photographed. The law would say that once you own land you get to control what goes on there. The basic problem is that so much of our space these days is out of public hands and in control of private enterprise.
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