Olympic Stadium © London 2012 Press Office

With a huge police operation, thousands of troops, private security and new legal powers taking over parts of London during the upcoming Olympic & Paralympic games, the PHNAT campaign will be closely monitoring the experiences of photographers, both amateur and professional, around the events & sites.

We want to hear from you any experiences or incidents, positive or negative, that you’ve had photographing around the olympic site in the run up to or during the games, or otherwise in connection with the olympics (increased stops with olympics given as a reason etc).

Help us track the impact of London 2012 on press freedom & the right to photograph, share this page and if you or anyone you know has issues, please let us know. Email us at olympics@photographernotaterrorist.org *

* – Please note, we cannot give any form of legal advice regarding any incidents, we are just collating accounts.

More Reading: Olympic 2012 Security: Welcome to Lockdown London - The Guardian

This whole ‘terrorism’ schtick is just an excuse for the state to gather unaccountable power to itself and I’m having none of it.

This seems like an opportune time to quote Gustrav Landauer:
” The state is not something that can be destroyed by a revolution but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour, we destroy it by behaving differently, by contracting other relationships.

David Hoffman is a Photographer, Not a Terrorist

Spent 25 years as a commercial photographer, based in SE England – currently St Albans. His self potrait was shot during my protest on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square on 2nd August 2009
Spike Brown is a Photographer, Not a Terrorist.

Marc Vallée is a Photographer, Not a Terrorist.

Stuart Freedman is a Photographer, Not a Terrorist.