Photography is under attack. Across the country it that seems anyone with a camera is being targeted as a potential terrorist, whether amateur or professional, whether landscape, architectural or street photographer.

Not only is it corrosive of press freedom but creation of the collective visual history of our country is extinguished by anti-terrorist legislation designed to protect the heritage it prevents us recording.

This campaign is for everyone who values visual imagery, not only photographers.

We must work together now to stop this before photography becomes a part of history rather than a way of recording it.

I'm a Photographer, not a Terrorist

Using the raw image data from Huygens, I thought I’d make a video for the track. I used wget to download all 367 images and added them to my iPhoto library. From there I could easily edit them together with the audio using iMovie.

The raw images reminded the of those received by the Russian Venera-9 probe after it landed on Venus is in 1975; they are glitchy and have low resolution. Of course, they are like gold to the ESA scientists but without processing, it’s difficult to discern anything from them.

The video is perhaps an obvious interpretation of the sound and images from Huygens, but I had fun making it. It’s shorter than the original audio clip released by ESA because I couldn’t think of a way of ending it without giving the viewer a headache (if it doesn’t already). However, I might finish it one day.

• Huygens Descent Video Mash-up (Quicktime MP4 - 1.3MB)