{"id":212403,"date":"2020-02-24T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=212403"},"modified":"2020-02-24T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T22:40:43","slug":"the-ethics-and-morality-of-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/the-ethics-and-morality-of-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics and Morality of Street Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are no ultimate morals or ethics in street photography:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Is your needs more important than the needs of others?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The tricky thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is more important– the feeling of your subject, or your desire or need to make a street photograph?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For example, in candid street photography — if your subject doesn’t know they’re being photographed, is it ‘unethical’ to photograph them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me posit the first point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn’t a matter of ‘ethical’ or ‘unethical’ behavior in street photography — it is instead a matter of: “How much do you care to shoot the photograph?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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For example let us consider this fact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone who you photograph will eventually die, and so will you die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Think about future humanity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For example, I am very grateful that Philip Jones Griffiths<\/a> shot the photos he did in Vietnam (and beyond). To me the photos of Griffiths was FAR BEYOND his subjects or himself; it was a testament to humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future of humanity is far more important than all of us.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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