When it comes to photography people can offend be sensitive. For this occasion, i can understand why she would be upset. I’ve had my shared of experiences where I’ve seen people who had their photo taken and disliked the fact they were on camera, and asked for the photo to be deleted. The photographer did jump into a horrible scene, where she was praying for healing and a moment of weakness, but his side is, its his job. What would you have done? If you have mouths to feed? It would have been common courtesy to ask her, but would the picture been as successful? Would she have given permission at such a moment of personal intimacy? My opinion the photographer should have approached the women after she relaxed, and was more in control of her emotions. It was kind of her to allow them to use the photo and it was respectful to answer her, when she mailed them through via email, and also to responsible as well. The photo was beautifully taken and showed a huge amount of emotion, but this a hard discussion because my feelings are neutral between both parties. I can easily agree on the feeling of violation, and the need to simply do my job.
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