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Photographers' Rights Free Expression Mobilization
Forest City Ratner has acted all these years like they own the place--the place
being the proposed project site for the Atlantic Yards project, aka a piece of
Prospect Heights. Point of fact: they don't.
Now it seems like the MTA police think perhaps they own the place:
MTA
cop tries to stop videographer at Atlantic Yards site
Atlantic Yards Report
Though a good number of photographers regularly shoot around the Atlantic Yards footprint and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Vanderbilt Yard, a video artist/teacher on the first week of her visit to Brooklyn found herself on the wrong side of an MTA police officer Sunday.
He attempted to confiscate her camera, questioned whether she was part of an anti-AY organization, and more than once reminded her that the project was proceeding, according to her account.
Katherin McInnis,
who teaches video and photography in San Francisco and is visiting Brooklyn
on sabbatical, told me she was hardly traumatized by the encounter, because
she knew she had the right to shoot video--and blurry, “arty” video at that--from
the Pacific Street sidewalk bordering the Vanderbilt Yard. (On her AV
Diary, she posted some stills, some of which are reproduced here.)...
Continue
reading.
Point of fact: they don't.
Well, the photographers, photobloggers, videographers and their supporters are
fighting back. The following is from a group of local photographers:
WHO:
Photographers, videographers, bloggers, and supporters. News media are welcome.
WHEN:
Sunday, February 10th @ 3pm
WHAT:
A "photographers' rights free expression mobilization" responding
to the harassment of video artist/teacher Katherin McInnis by an MTA police officer
last Sunday, February 3rd on public property within the Atlantic Yards footprint.
We will discuss photographers' rights and the Atlantic Yards situation, then walk
and photograph within the footprint. Depending on circumstances, we may have the
opportunity to engage in respectful information exchange with MTA police and/or
private security personnel. End point: Freddy's Bar and Backroom, 485 Dean Street,
corner of Sixth Avenue.
WHERE:
Meet at the Brooklyn Bears Community Garden, Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue,
entrance on Pacific. If there's *heavy* rain or snow, we'll change the meeting
place to Freddy's Bar, 485 Dean, corner of Sixth Avenue.
Posted: 2.07.08
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