The Message, Brussels 2007

Stunning image and very good eye. Marvellous!

This is great, I love it !

The two seated figures look like some kind of installation. Couldn't be done any better. Brilliant

Well seen and executed!

Just perfect.

Can I ask if these people know that they are going to appear in an exhibition ? It is a great photograph

Cheers
TEX

TEX said:

Can I ask if these people know that they are going to appear in an exhibition ? It is a great photograph

Cheers
TEX

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Thanks all for the kind words.

TEX; They do not. The image is taken in a public place and is not intended for commercial gain (I am contributing the image free of charge...). Also it is not enough that someone is in the image, it must be demonstrated that their likeness is essential to the content of the image (hence close up portraits etc are sailing close to the wind). In this case the likeness of the individuals is not essential to the image content. Under UK and Belgian law, an image does not require a release if an image is taken in a public place where an individual would not have a reasonable right to expect privacy (this covers most public places). If the image was considered to be demeaning or humiliates a subject even in a public place it would be possible for the individual to contest the use of the image. Note that the law here mainly applies to images in publications.

Without getting on a soap box, I hugely regret that a genre created and mastered by some of the greats is being sapped of all license through expanding laws of Big Brother, and had these existed before, some of the greatest photographs taken would have lingered as an untaken moment or unseen negative. A sad state of affairs.

This is exceptional work, which I've come to expect when you post.

Absolutely super shot, if you were to try to set it up you would not have got it as good as this probably. Well done

Oh, that's just great!

great work ...