French Court Bans Photo Book in Dispute Over One of the Portraits Within
A French court has banned distribution of a photo book and fined the photographer, essentially for including a portrait the subject didn’t like.
The court ruled Yan Morvan‘s book “Gangs Story,” a series of photos of French gang members, must be removed from bookstores because one of its portrait subjects objects to his depiction. Under France’s “personality rights” laws, individuals have broad control over the use and distribution of their image. Morvan was also ordered to pay a €5,000 fine.
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Morvan tells the British Journal of Photography that the ruling should be taken as a warning to any photographers working in France: “There are 250 images in this book; what this sentence means is that 250 people could sue me. In essence, this sentence is a ban on a photographer’s right to work.”
The images in the book are drawn from Morvan’s four decades of documenting gang culture in France’s suburbs, which ended after a serial killer held him captive and tortured him for three weeks.
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