Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I went to a public native american pow wow here on Saturday, paid an admission fee to enter.....fund raising to help an ill child... At the outset we were asked to not take photos of the costumes and dancing being put on for the public, unless we asked individually first...or our cameras might be confiscated ! and not returned ! I asked five times, two... no's, two... buy me a lunch, and one... yes for ten dollars.... high standards vs encouraging extortion... Steve B. D. Colen wrote: > Why should one ask permission for posting to the web if one doesn't ask > permission before shooting? That makes less than no sense. > > And by the way - the more people ask permission before shooting, the > more the people being shot will come to expect that permission will be > asked, and the less freedom there will be to photograph freely. > > As to holding oneself to "high standards" - what makes that a "high > standard?" > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Karen Nakamura > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:34 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Photojournalists and permission > > > >>fine if you want posed photos... >> >>Karen, are all of your photos posed ? > > > Do I direct my subjects? No. Do I ask for permission? Yes. Do I ask > for consent forms. No. > > Everyone on the high holy horse of posing, my response is FINE. But > if you want to be ethical, you should ask permission before you post > their photos on the web. It's common decency as well as the law in > many places. > > But as I've said repeatedly, I hold myself to a pretty high standard. > You don't have to do so if you don't want to. > > Karen > > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/ >