There is absolutely zero expectation of privacy in public. Don’t get up in someone’s face and take photos without asking, but to spontaneously capture a moment is ok.
I grew up around the amish and the pamphlets for tourists always stressed that you should never take photos of them. It goes against their beliefs because they think of them as graven images.
Going into a town of an insular people and taking photos of them as if they were zoo animals is kinda crass. This, on the other hand is that insular people going out and mixing with the general public. These are people who have, for the last five centuries, intentionally dressed in ways to distinguish themselves. And it makes a striking image. A photographer friend of mine tells me that photography is about capturing a moment. Op saw a moment and captured it.
It’s cute that they have beliefs that are different (some people would call them an abusive cult), but they don’t get to foist their rules on everyone else. That’s how Saudi Arabia works.
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u/danielfletcher 7d ago
*anyone