Many people at my age tend to have a weekend or evening job, working in retail. Well that was me till about 8 months ago, after working retail for four year I had enough of rude customers, long shift and little pay, so I decided to start my own night club photography business called Action Filming. After six months I had secured contracts for three clubs, and everything was going well and the company was growing at a good rate, we also introduced offering clubs a promotional video. However as myself and my team started taking over 200 photos per club per night we were getting a vast amount of message from people requesting that photos of themselves were taken down.
I was surprised at this and felt it fairly odd, as when I go on a night out I don't mind having my photo taken, but then people are all different. This made me think, what gives me the right to be taking photos of people in the first place without there permission? Sure there in a club where its normally expected to be a nightclub photographer, but the people in the photo never agree to have the photos taken and then to be placed on social media websites.
This brings me on to the next issue, as I mentioned I also film club events. The main difference in terms with privacy in relation to a video is once its up there is no way to remove certain people from the video, unlike photos where I can just delete their picture. However I do occasionally find that people who don't want to be in the video often ask me not film them which I take seriously and understand their situation.
In conclusion, on a night out in a club most people expect there to be a photographer at the club and have come to accept this over time, as club love to use the photos as a cheap source of promotional material there is a very low chance that clubs will ever remove club photographer because a small minority of people don't want their photos taken.
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