"Has our increasingly paranoid society declared war on the humble 'weekend snapper'?

An amateur photographer is chased by the police after taking pictures on the seafront; another man is frogmarched away when using his camera in a town centre. Since when did carrying a camera in public provoke so much suspicion and hostility? Sam Delaney reports. Illustration by Ulla Puggaar."...more

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It is run and maintained by the University of Bolton Photography MA, a one year course which runs concurrently at learning centers at The University of Bolton, UK and Dalian College of Image Art, China.

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