I know that I already mentioned GDPR here on the www.adammazek.com blog, but I don’t remember when it happened, so it’s time to remind you about it.
What is GDPR? The abbreviation stands for General Data Protection Regulation. According to Investopedia, GDPR is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information from individuals who live in the European Union (EU). For a street photographer, it is crucial that I cannot publish people’s faces without their hand-written signatures. Why do I want to write about GDPR once again? Because I never know who and when will start reading my blog.
Moreover, I was reminded about the GDPR topic while designing subsequent “adammazek.com” t-shirts.
The truth is that I ordered two T-shirts with pictures of people with their faces clearly visible. Because I cannot publish or show photos with strangers’ faces without their approval, I converted the photos in Lightroom into a negative. That’s why some t-shirts with classic street photography pictures are quite different from the rest of my photographs. To give you a clear example of what I am saying, I present pictures of my t-shirts with photos as negatives on them in this post.Â
Undoubtedly, GDPR does not help street photographers in any case.Â
Warsaw is not as big a city as, e.g., Tokyo or New York. That’s why I do not want to risk publishing strangers’ faces. I do not wish to have any trouble by doing it. I do not aim to put humans into the frame of my photographs. The truth is that I often wait until people get out of the frame in my viewfinder in camera. That’s why GDPR does not bother me as much as it could be if I were focused on taking pictures of strangers.Â
