Secret photography

A person may be unaware of being photographed in a variety of situations, such as: It has been in use by British police since intelligence gathering on the suffragette movement in the 1900s.

Voyeuristic photography has also been centrally explored in movies such as Powell & Pressburger's Peeping Tom, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup, and has appeared to comic effect in films such as Gregory's Girl and American Pie.

Erich Salomon took images of European summit meetings and a session of the US Supreme Court in secret using an Ermanox camera hidden in his hat.

France for instance, has very strict laws against publication of such images,[3] while the British tabloid press will publish a variety of secret photography.

[5] News gathering organisations and media trade unions issue ethical guidelines to their members on the use of secret and telephoto lens photography.

A still from a covertly taken video by RAWA showing Taliban members beating a woman in public
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944–45 (image taken covertly)