This topic is a bag of worms! Call it street photography or candid photography or as I like to think of it as photographing strangers. If I lived in France I would be breaking the law to take pictures of people in the street. Here in the UK it is not illegal, though people can become uneasy wondering what I am doing. Holding a big SLR fitted to a zoom lens is not as discrete as an iPhone.
In my opinion there is a great cultural and historic value to be placed in this genre of photography. A value that is not immediately evident in contemporary photographs, but that becomes more evident as time passes.
If we look now at street photography that was practiced decades ago we are enthralled by the environmental, fashion and cultural differences between then and now.
I can see the point of people claiming invasion of privacy, after all this is Sensitive Light and not Insensitive Light.
