Kuwait Bans DSLR-Camera Photo-Taking in Public – Shoot a Stranger, Go To Jail? – But Accredited Journalists Excepted

Just try to use your biggish digital single-lens-reflex camera on the streets of Kuwait these days. It ain’t easy, brother.

Now, I don’t think that you could ban DSLR use in San Francisco. There’d be a rebellion or something.

Cause if something happens, it didn’t happen unless it was recorded somehow – that’s how we look at it.

Our Folsom Street Fair 2009 was a great day for walkies with the slave, past the guy with the Nikon, past the guy with the Canon, past the Leather Etc…(!) store…:

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via mikey baratta PHOTOGRAPHIC

Just be on the look-out for this guy. I think he’s up to something:

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One Response to “Kuwait Bans DSLR-Camera Photo-Taking in Public – Shoot a Stranger, Go To Jail? – But Accredited Journalists Excepted”

  1. The Camera: Strikes Creativity or Terror? | Yin Yang Social Change says:
    September 29, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    [...]   This is hilarious, and yet I bet he can see the rings of Saturn so clearly! http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2010/11/24/kuwait-bans-dslr-camera-photo-taking-in-public-shoot-a-stranger... [...]