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Am I a horrible person for posting my people photography on my insta? (alien.top)
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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?

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[–] figuren9ne@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Everyone has a different opinion on this. I'm a fan of street photography and I'm generally ok with posting it, and do so myself. Your edit hit most of the points where I'm not ok with it, such as poverty/homelessness, kids, and people in compromising situations, negative situations, or obviously private moments. Street photography to me is about documenting a specific area and period in time, and the people are part of the area and time.