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Police delete London tourists’ photos "to prevent terrorism"

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Like most visitors to London, Klaus Matzka and his teenage son Loris took several photographs of some of the city’s sights, including the famous red double-decker buses. More unusually perhaps, they also took pictures of the Vauxhall bus station, which Matzka regards as "modern sculpture".

But the tourists have said they had to return home to Vienna without their holiday pictures after two policemen forced them to delete the photographs from their cameras in the name of preventing terrorism.

Continue reading at the Guardian

This is worth a read, it’s short and makes a number of good points [that you’d think are painfully obvious, but apparently still need to be made… over and over and over again].

Via GRINZ

Free film offer from Fujifilm UK (London only)

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The Fujifilm Professional Newsletter says:

Process 10 rolls of any brand of 120 colour negative film at London-based pro lab Genesis Imaging and receive a free 5 roll pack of either Fujicolor PRO160S, PRO160C or PRO400H 120 colour negative film.

The Fujicolor PRO Series offers an exceptional range of professional colour negative films to suit all purposes. PRO Series films produce natural skin tones, extremely fine grain, have a wide exposure latitude and are optimised for digital scanning.

To claim your free 5 roll pack, simply process 10 rolls of ANY BRAND of 120 colour negative film at Genesis Imaging. For more details contact Ken or Lynda at Genesis on +44 20 7384 6299.

This offer is open only while stocks last and is limited to one free 120 film 5 pack per order, per person, per day.

Genesis Imaging
Unit 1 Hurlingham Business Park
Sulivan Road
Fulham
London
SW6 3DU
United Kingdom

www.genesis-digital.net

Tel: 020 7384 6299

Pinhole workshop at Zoom In, London, UK

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The not-for-profit Zoom In Photography School are having a pinhole workshop at their location in Clapham. Their course prospectus begins:

The Pinhole Photography course is a fun way to learn and demystify the mechanics of your camera. Deliberately structured to help you understand your own camera better but also providing essential skills in those who wish to develop this old photographic technique in their photographic art work. You will cover everything from preparing your camera, constructing your camera using simple mathematical formula to taking meter readings and photographs and processing positive images from your negatives.

Continue reading at Zoom In

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Shooting Rio childrens’ photography show

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This captivating exhibition is the result of several months work by a group of Rio [de Janeiro, Brazil] Street Children who were given cameras and encouraged to express and document their lives through photography. Inspired by the idea of recording moments, for their beauty and excitement, rather than trying to forget, the children have produced a breathtaking body of work. The pictures that followed tell a tale of a city that is at once magnificent and violent, musical, passionate and brimming with color. But the photographers also portray the city and themselves in a sensitive light – asking questions of a community that is trying hard to come to terms with its own prejudices.

It will stand as testament to what the children have produced, an achievement all the more remarkable given their personal backgrounds. We hope the exhibition will truly inform our audience as much about the harsh reality of these children’s lives as about their genuine creativity, undeterminable spirit and the real potential for social change. In collaboration with LAB. Exhibition runs until 23 June [2006].

Shooting Rio opens in London on 15 June [2006] at Canning House in Belgrave Square, London, UK.

The BBC has a preview of photos from the show at bbc.co.uk.

Via Rio photographer Rodrigo Perez