Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 05:11 Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Re:Ask? > It's mostly to protect younger kids who can't defend > themselves. Against what? Is photography an attack? The main reason for releases in schools is to avoid lawsuits, not to protect children, or at least that has always been the traditional reason. The schools have always needed such releases, but they haven't always been as vigilant about getting them. > There are lots of non-custodial parents who don't know > where their kids are. But if a picture is in the paper > saying what school it's at, it makes it a lot easier, > in many cases, to figure out where they are after school. But in that case, these parents are not photographing children in public, are they? In fact, the children aren't being photographed in public at all (usually). > Unless you have had to deal with this as a photographer, > and see how many times kids are "in hiding" it might > seem ridiculous. I almost never photograph people at all, much less children specifically, for the reasons discussed in this thread. People always assume the worst. I'd love to be able to photograph people, but since just holding a camera makes me a suspect, that isn't possible. -- Anthony