B&W photo of scene at home wake - child in foreground

[Peremensoe]

@whole_bean

I feel like I don’t have the right to display their images. Celebrities have given their images away, but these people haven’t.

They haven’t? They didn’t give the photographer permission? (Not sure I’m following you.) I can’t really hold with displaying a photograph anywhere without the subject’s permission.

Some feel they should be able to take any picture anytime.

@Rigamarole

Your image doesn’t belong to you. You’re part of the world and anyone who sees you in it has the right to record that image, when you’re not in a place where you’d have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

As a photographer it’s an issue that really annoys me in the other direction - I’ve seen some people doing things that would make amazing shots, and asked them if I could take their picture and been told no (even though I had every legal right to do so).