For this week I feel it requires to move away from the abstract work that I have been undertaking and inject some other work that I do. Flying the drone I have had an experience where individuals have verbally challenged me for being voyeuristic and peeping tom. My position is not one of voyeur and I think that its the lack of knowledge of the public as to what a drone can actually see.
This image from about 100m has people in it but there is no identity to them.
I have Permission for Commercial Operation and fly within the regulations which are very clear.
This highlights the perception people have that your flying your drone to spy on them in the same way that when you are seen with a large telephoto lens in the street that you must be doing something wrong.
That being said people do use both of these tools in a very voyeuristic way. Such as Merry Alpern’s work ‘Dirty Windows’ with a telephoto lens or the drone operator that took this photo.
Figures
1 Roydon Woodford
2 https://cdnwg.youx.xxx/galleries/content/1/794/1794480_8ec6535.jpg
