Public images are increasingly limited

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/16/public-images-are-increasingly-limited

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I have been photographing on the streets of Birmingham (Open door, 15 June), in part to improve its image and to give me something to do with my disability, for over 30 years. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do this. I am often stopped in public and private spaces. I have a few minutes in which to work before security brings my work to an end, having noticed me on their CCTV. I haven’t photographed children playing in a public space for many years, and the work of people such as Vivian Maier and Shirley Baker would be impossible these days. It seems to me, from a photographic point of view, that the public space has become privatised, with CCTV everywhere and the lone photographer increasingly unwelcome.David TrippasBirmingham