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Neil Scott's avatar

Geoff Dyer has a fascinating section in The Ongoing Moment about photographers obsession with blind people. That is, with those who can't object to being photographed. It includes some of those Subway blind people.

The conclusion I came to is that you should treat (photograph) as you would want to be treated (photographed). There has to be respect and I think those pictures of mothers and children are respectful, even if they objected.

https://neilscott.substack.com/p/the-ethics-of-street-photography

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By Nat's avatar

A fellow photographer coined the phrase ‘the anti-pose’ for the moment before a person is aware of you taking their photo. That rested, unconcerned expression can not be authentically produced when the subject is aware.

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