The courts do not allow photographers to shoot pictures inside a courtroom, although they will allow illustrators to get away drawing courtroom scenes which have almost no likeness with reality.
Ditto, the legislature.
This, above, is a scene from the Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore where a joint session of the State legislature is on. Photographers are not allowed in although television videographers are. Therefore lensmen like T.A. Hafeez, former chief photographer of The Hindu, have to make do with whatever support they can get.
Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
Tags: Churumuri, Karnataka Photo News, KPN, Photography, Sans Serif, T.A. Hafeez, The Hindu, Vidhana Soudha
6 July 2010 at 6:45 pm
If there is a rule that they can not enter the hall, better respect that.
Paparazzi attitude of the present day photojournalists may be the reason for not allowing them into courts/legislature or for that matter to wedding of celebrities and sportspersons!
However, they continue to barge into private places like hospitals…
6 July 2010 at 8:16 pm
If Dr Kiran Acharya cannot distinguish the legitimate duties of photographers in a democracy from the imagined suffered by his ilk at the hands of the paparazzi, then a non-doctor like me can can only conclude that he suffers from delusions common to cynics of the media.
The lawmakers are sitting inside the Vidhana Soudha conducting the business of the people who have elected them and who have every right to see if they are doing it right. If as videographers are allowed, then what can be the argument that still photographers should stay out?
The rule that keeps them out is an archaic one. The faster it is revoked, the earlier we will be able to see the antics of our elected representatives.
7 July 2010 at 6:08 am
@MSM: There is no Delusion
As long as there is a rule, adhere to it. If the rule is archaic, get it amended through legal means.
Till then avoid tactics of Paparazzi, Peeping into others lives…without permission – precisely what is being shown in the photo above!
7 July 2010 at 3:14 pm
Dr Kiran: it’s NOT other’s lives. These are the people answerable to US.
7 July 2010 at 3:48 pm
Peeping Toms, idenu sabhyathe, idenu samskrithi?
Videographers do a better job than you and also please do remember that there are 600 million photoghraphers in the country.