In my opinion and first-hand experiences, the big problem with the criminalization of photography is that photographers have accepted passively this situation. I have been stopped (apparently for fears of pedophilia) and taken to a judge, to whom I argued pretty vehemently while my companion photographer told me to cool down and forget the whole issue (we were eventually let go). Bloggers write, sometimes journalists touch the subject, but no real effort is ever done by photographers to revert the increasing perception that photography is somehow connected to crime. When I have tried to involve others, including this forum, I have been left with the impression that I am somehow doing something wrong or not worth the trouble, as if it was only my personal problem. I have yet to untap the power of the Internet ;) We let them, and so things are. **************** Alberto Tirado
