I'm a former photographer. I used to shoot a lot of people before asking for their consent. I used to be a fan of Bruce Gilden, and by the way, his invasive flash assholery is not the only type of his works, so I guess I still am. Heck, I'm thinking sometimes about doing a short old-school street-photo vacation in Netherlands, just because laws there are chill about concent when doing it for the art.

But.

What triggers me about the #39c3 #photopolicy is that the congress is the perfectly wrong place to do this kind of art: it's full of vulnerable people, who can face real problems if their photo leaks; but also full of security enthusiasts, who can think of a million ways to exploit this stupid exception in #nophoto policy. For example, pretending to be this mysterious Stella :D

Walking on the beach near work earlier I chanced upon a painted rock. About the size of a human hand, and left resting on one of the very large boulders that make up the seawall there. Words: "Mammy, gone but never forgotten. I love you". And a cartoon butterfly sticker. I took a photo and then i deleted it. it was just too fucking sad. and too private. the pain of a child that lost their mother, the wisdom of a child on a path of healing. (Was the butterfly random, or intuitive?)

#nophoto

Cataggression

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cats #pets #destruction #grumpy #nophoto #finland

Manchmal sehe ich etwas, was ich gerne photographieren würde, es aber aus Gründen nicht kann.

Eine große Baustelle, Leerrohre gucken in regelmäßigem Muster aus der Oberfläche, im goldenen Schnitt der Fläche stehen drei Menschen in orangenem Warnfarben-Overall im Gespräch.
#noPhoto

5 February 1934 | German Sinti girl, Johanna Weiß, was born in Kefferhausen.

In the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 27 March 1943.
No. Z-5840
She perished in the camp on 7 July 1943.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #Roma #Sinti #NoPhoto

I saw a Cardinal! It's cute and red with black chin and chilling on the ground and pecking at something in the leaves. Tiny but not gaunt; it was super round. Presumably foraging successfully.

#happy #hardcore #sunrise #NoPhoto