Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/27
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Living in NYC as I do I find street photography rather easy; I particularly
like Broadway south of Houston St., where the cast of characters is highly
varried, to say the least. I try to work as fast as possible and sometimes
shoot from the hip or chest with a prefocused F2/35 or 24mm lens. The only
problems I've had were when taking pictures of school children on a public
walkway in Chinatown for a project about that area that I was working on.
The problem came from a female non-Chinese guardian of the children, who
became physically agressive with me. When I got home I called the school
and spoke to the principal, making clear that I was well within my rights to
take pictures and that the employee's behavior was unaccceptable.
In general, I shoot first and ask questions later. I strongly
believe that we have a right to phootograph anyone/anything in public. But
sorry to say I get the feeling that this right may soon disappear. There's a
lot of anti-photography sentiment out there, virtually all of it misdirected
IMHO.