About Manchester Open City (a CityCo Campaign)
MANCHESTER OPEN CITY
Our vision is for Manchester to lead the way as the UK’s most welcoming and accessible photography destination.
To support this aim, our Manchester Open City campaign seeks to inspire many more people to capture the essence of the city through photography.
We aim to encourage landowners and stakeholders to work together to reduce the frequency of photographers being stopped unnecessarily in Manchester city centre; ultimately encouraging the wider promotion and celebration of our evolving urban landscape – improving perceptions and attracting more visitors.
THE CAMPAIGN
> Seeks to find a sensible balance between reasonable freedom and expression and right to privacy. CityCo seeks to work with landowners and stakeholders to ensure organisations are working together to support photography of people in public places, unless too obtrusive or harassing.
> Seeks to encourage landowners and stakeholders to support photography on private land, unless conduct is obtrusive, disruptive or convenes company policy. In these cases, the Open City campaign seeks to encourage landowners to explain their policy to affected members of the public.
> Seeks to encourage landowners and stakeholders to support photography on all public thoroughfares, unless conduct is disruptive or in breach of the peace.
> Seeks to encourage landowners and stakeholders to reduce any unnecessary stopping of photography, seizing of equipment or deleting of images, unless an offence has been committed.
PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES
CityCo has produced a set of simple guidelines for photographers out and about in the city. Download: cityco.com/media/uploads/2011/08/02/OPEN_CITY_MANCHESTER_...
REPORTING BEING STOPPED TAKING PHOTOS IN MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE
We encourage any feedback from photographers who feel they have been unnecessarily stopped in the city centre. CityCo will then use this feedback to liaise with landowners, authorities and relevant security firms around steps to resolve and improve the situation.
To send any feedback, please contact us at info@cityco.com, with the subject line “OPEN CITY PHOTOGRAPHY”.
OPEN CITY EXHIBITION
CityCo launched the Open City campaign in Spring 2010, working with five renowned Manchester photographers Andrew Brookes, Len Grant, Paul Hermann, Mark Page and Aidan O’Rourke; and supported by the Red Eye photography network.
We ran a series of workshops attended by 100 amateur photographers, with thirty inspiring images then displayed at a free, public exhibition for three weeks at The Triangle Shopping Centre.
We intend to build on our campaign and invite lovers of Manchester to join our group and post away!
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CityCo is Manchester's city centre management company
www.cityco.com
http://www.cityco.com/initiative/open-city-photography/
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