Photography's role is to document reality—joyful, enraging, sorrowful, or numbing—with utmost sincerity and truth. However, in some instances, the very act of making a photograph, especially of unknown people, without their consent, has made it quite challenging to defend the medium.

Here, the intent is of utmost importance. Some people create images to highlight a growing concern of society or to showcase the mundane beauty around us. In other cases, the photographs simply hold no value and are used as a means to demean or harass people, especially those whom you have little value for. An example of this is a case in India, where a man photographed a woman outside her house, followed by sexual gestures of harassment. . thephoblographer.com

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