Hoffman has been a key campaigner against legislation and police restrictions on photography, and is speaking at the Frontline Club, London's club to promote independent current affairs and journalism, to talk about the campaign in more depth, and reflect on the challenges facing the photography profession, particularly the ready availability of free substitutes for photojournalists’ work .
The event costs £12.50 and is followed by a question and answer session moderated by photographer Chris Steele-Perkins. For more information, see http://frontlineclub.com/events/2010/02/in-the-picture-with-david-hoffman-war-on-photography.html
Well done for keeping up the fight for photographers to keep their rights to go about their business! Hopefully the government will take on board Lord Carlile's comment in a radio interview, quoted by this month's BFP newsletter: "In my view, section 44 is being used far too often on a random basis without any reasoning behind its use."
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