I discuss the scope and potentially demanding practical implications of a right to editorial control. When street photographers produce and publish images without the consent of subjects, they express their own creative freedom at the expense of the subject’s right to editorial control. The main ethical problem with this form of street photography relates to the subject’s vanity and sense of self. In orthodox street photography, the photographer positions the camera some distance away from a nonconsenting subject that may or may not be aware a picture is to be taken. I next examine the more orthodox ‘respectable distance’ kind of street photography. Close-up street photography is shown to be ethically contentious on wellbeing-related and autonomy-related grounds. In close-up street photography, the proximity of the camera to the subject and the element of surprise work in tandem to produce a striking and evocative picture. I firstly discuss the close-up ‘in-your-face’ style street photography made famous by American photographer, Bruce Gilden. In this paper I examine the ethics of street photography.
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