Transportation Security Administration Catches Heat for Poster Implying Photographers are Possible Terrorists

Following two much-discussed stories last year, famous architecture photographer Grant Smith getting accosted and searched by the police for taking photos and footage from a hidden camera as another photographer was nearly arrested in Los Angeles for taking shots in a train station, it’s seemed like a quieter year for hearing big complaints over photogs being unfairly maligned by their governments. That is until now. Currently making the rounds is a new poster published by the Transportation Security Administration, which shows an image of a hooded evil-doer taking photographs of an airport’s runway.

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