In the USA, today actually. Is there any issue with me photographing my voting experience? The lines of people, the volunteers?
I know engineers and dentists aren't lawyers or cops but....
In the USA, today actually. Is there any issue with me photographing my voting experience? The lines of people, the volunteers?
I know engineers and dentists aren't lawyers or cops but....
The answer is ... there's no clear answer.
http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/06/...e-photography/
Peter
I hope the answer doesn't depend on if you ask a Democrat or Republican lawyer.
Just heard from my photojournalistic friend who says no problem except practical ones - individuals will give you gruff and be misinformed.
You might want to look at the work of Simon Roberts a UK photojournalist/artist who shoots LF. He covered the last UK General Election. I met him last year when I went to see two of his exhibitions with a talk afterwards, bvery approachable and a great guy, excellent work as well.
Ian
I seem to have gotten away with it, although I was questioned towards the end by a volunteer who told me I wasn't allowed to photograph but since it was my own camera (? logic in action!) it was OK. Pretty funny but I told her that I looked it up (I sort of did) and that it was OK and I didn't want to bother anyone, just document my process. Perhaps if I photographed others it would be more problematic but gee, I was shy. And it was not that visually interesting.
I won't talk politics here ;-p
Lots of pictures of people voting in today's papers. Even saw one of an Assistant Fire Chief in NJ actually filling out his ballot in one paper.
I guess as an individual you can waive you're right to anonimity, the US must be similar to the UK in the right to a secret ballot, but if you don't want to keep it secret then that's fair game and most probably is with the agreement of the officials at the polling/voting station.
Ian
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