Street Photography | Shooting and Publishing
subject of the image are usually publishable
without gaining permission. In other words,
if the person or people in a photo can be
retouched or replaced without changing the
character of the shot, you are usually on safe
ground. If a person is portrayed out of focus,
extremely small, as a silhouette or in any
other way that makes them unrecognizable,
you are usually allowed to publish without
special permission.Public Events
If you are photographing parades, markets or
other public events, you are generally allowed
to publish photos of individuals if they are
portrayed within the context of the event itself
and do not constitute the subject of the photo.People who take part in such events are
considered to be aware of the fact that they
might get photographed, and cannot insist on
the right to give permission to have their
likeness published.
Portraits that do not obviously relate to a
larger-scale event cannot be shot or
published without first gaining the subject’s
permission, even if the person involved is
located in a public place. The legal stipulations
vary from country to country and from
situation to situation, so always get
permission first, even if you are not sure
whether you need to. Remember, if a person
willingly poses for the camera, this can be
legally construed as an agremeement to be
photographed and a grant of permission to
the photographer.At public parades like Christopher
Street Day, you don’t have to get
permission to publish photos of
obviously willing subjects such as
the one shown hereISO 400 | 50mm focal length |
f11 | 1/125 s | analogPhotos like this in which the person concerned cannot be recognized can be published without getting
special permission. If the man in this scene had turned to face the camera, I would have required
permission to publish, even though the urban scene in the background takes up most of the frame.
ISO 800 | 35mm focal length | f8 | 1/1000 s