RE: The United Nations said no fun allowed
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In this age of technology, when even tiny cameras built into glasses can shoot in excellent resolution, someone still forbids a person from photographing a building. It’s absurd — what harm can a photo really do? There are dozens of satellites orbiting in space right now that can capture any building from above.
Ordinary people are overwhelmed with rules, while those who make them break the law themselves all the time. These regulations became outdated twenty years ago.
Sorry, I’ve got no voting power left today — I’m at zero.
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Yeah haha, Armenia is a bit behind in that sense. It's still very strict. Even the metro station is a huge no. Do it and you get detained and your phone searched. Georgia was similar but way more relaxed but I think that's also because it has a much higher tourist count where people are endlessly flocking to it with big cameras. Armenia is still barely discovered. Summer has a lot of those tourist photographers but again it's still a bit weird about people photographing things.
I think it's why that industry itself is also so thin here. It's a bit of a hostile environment to be a photographer, and there are no real street photographers here which capture the people, because that will instantly get you punched or again detained if someone reports you. The people here just aren't that used to photography as a hobby. They see Chinese tourists with cameras in their groups. But a rogue person running around with a camera? Now that's suspicious!
That’s it, I don’t want to go to Armenia anymore 😄