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via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/07/photography-and-freedom-of-expression-it’s-not-just-the-police-that-restrict-it/

Following on from the irate gallery attendant who stopped me taking a photo in what I felt was a public space (see here), I would say that although many complaints photographers make against restrictions to freedom of expression involve the police, far less reported are incidences with security guards, public-space personnel (museums, galleries, swimming pools) and shop attendants. What it reveals is a wide mistrust of photographers. If you’re photographing, you’re seen as someone sinister, which is a view that the world is a dark and nasty place, where photographers are immediately suspicious.