When Is It OK To Photograph Teenagers In School Uniform Without Their Consent?
Umm…never?
I went to pick up my 15-year-old daughter from school yesterday. She’s a smart and feisty kid. She gets along well with a good cross-section of her classmates and I’m assuming that her opinion is that of the class.
I don’t usually do the school run. My daughter’s class had a morning dismissal time after their mid-term examination yesterday. That was why I was there before work, to pick her up and drop her home before rushing to my dental clinic.
I thought it would be a good idea to get a few picture of the kids in uniform. They were calling out to each other, discussing the exam and generally emoting in a way they didn’t even know would be fascinating in a photograph.
The children didn’t like my photographing them candidly.
Even though I sent each kids’ picture to the kid themselves and then deleted it from my phone, they still didn’t like it.
These are kids who I know from my daughter’s birthday parties each year. Once a year, each of these kids comes to my place and on that day, they BEG to be photographed.
I have just one photograph at school from my years at school. It is a stiff “class picture”, where…
