Critical Tits and Photography

[errantember]

There's been a great debate over photography at the annual Critical Tits bike ride at Burning Man. For the uninitiated, hundreds if not thousands of women go topless, many get body painted, and then they ride across the playa in a huge solidarity parade. Naturally lots of men with cameras show up, despite the fact that BM has rules against taking recognizable pictures of people without their consent. Of course, not all the pictures are recognizable. My comments are on page 8, posted as errantember.

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Comments

Re: Really?

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm familiar with several custody cases in which such pictures have been instrumental in getting people's children taken away from them, which is ridiculous I was referring more to photographers getting sued over pictures most people wouldn't recognize.

Re: Really?

[stnuke.livejournal.com]

I wasn't referring to photographers getting sued. As I say, the person behind the camera often is well-shielded from such silliness by dint of artistic expression, but all of the weirdness that can take place for the people in front of the lens or even people not primariy involved in the image itself gets very spooky. At an event such as this, you probably don't have to worry aobut indecency charges being brought unless the image makes its way to your local jurisdiction.

Midori, though, used to have a great speech about a friends of hers who was charged with indecency for waring chaps ...