Rust to dust - Urban Exploration photography

Urban Exploration or UrbEx, how it is called by "insiders" is all about finding old, abandoned buildings and locations and photographing them. But it is all about the ruins of modern civilization. Old hospitals and Asylums are a preferred location, even better than old manufacturing sites or bunkers. The spookier the story behind the subject, the better. Read More...

Tags: Legality with photography, Urban Decay

A brilliant resource for legal issues with photography.

Browsing through the internet today, I found this absolutely great blog page which I wanted to share with you. It is run by Carlos Miller, a photojournalist in Miami, Florida. He was arrested in February of 2007 for photographing them against their wishes. Read More...

Tags: Legality with photography, Photography

A collection of resources about photographers rights

Recent projects I am working on made me question the legality of taking photographs in various questionable places, publishing those and the possible consequences of my actions.

It is very sad to begin with that photo enthusiasts, amateurs or professional photographers that simply want to express their point of view of the world in an artistic way have to worry about such banal matters. But, we live in a society and not in an agglomeration of individuals - or so wee'd like to think or make ourselves believe. Hence there are certain and thoughts and aspects that may concern the uninvolved individual in a complete different way than the photographer and vice versa. So consequently some rules and regulations have been put into place and it's worth it to have at least an overview over the basics. Read More...

Tags: Legality with photography