A while ago I made a post on hear asking if it was OK to post pictures of people in street photography, the general consensus was yes and its legal in England.
For some context I’m building a portfolio for uni and wanted to show off all my images.
Well my frend mentioned today it was super creepy and run as I didn’t have their consent.
I’m torn, it was in a public place, its completely legal, you can’t really tell who thay are in most of them,
Idk, I feel super bad, but I don’t wanna delete them as they really add to my uni application. All photos have some people in If you’re taking street photography.
What should I do?
On a slightly different note, I find it funny people getting upset about taking photos of people in public. Some(!) of the most famous images we have from the past to give context to our understanding of modern history are candid photos of people going about their daily lives. I often wonder how future historians will filter through all the traces we leave behind (in particular social media and photos and videos) and how they will differentiate between what was real and what was put on for show. One of the biggest debates on history is about how history was recorded and by whom and for what purpose- a lot of it was written by people with power and influence and this could really start to change over the next few generations. Anyway taking candid photos of life is fascinating…