US celeb Hilary Duff attacks photographer online for taking photos at football game

[editor]

I can see there's two sides to this, but her using her fame to get her zillions of instagram followers to back her up and humiliate the guy sure seems over the top to me.

But what do we think, urban? Oh, and I'd never heard of her until I read this.

American celebrity Hilary Duff enlisted her 15 million Instagram followers to shame a photographer this past weekend. His offense? Practicing his photography by shooting a kid’s soccer game at a public park.

It all started this past Saturday after the star noticed a man photographing her 7-year-old son’s soccer game. She turned on her smartphone camera, marched over to the man, and confronted him about what he was doing.

“Who are you here with?” Duff asks the man, who is seen holding a Nikon Z Series mirrorless camera and telephoto lens.

“I’m here with me,” the man replies.

“Do you know any of the people on the team? No? Can you stop taking pictures of the kids please?”

“It’s legal,” the man counters, offering to show ID. “I’m taking pictures. I’m practicing photography. I’m not here to scare you or anything like that. Your paranoia is unwarranted.”

“It’s just an uncomfortability factor that these are 7-year-old children and you don’t have a child here,” Duff says.

“What’s that got to do with anything?” the photographer asks.

“Well, there are children and we would like to protect them,” Duff says. “So if you could take pictures and practice your photography somewhere else…”

“Me taking pictures of them… is not… What about other people?” the man asks.

“Okay, then I will just post this to my 15 million followers on Instagram and let people know how creepy it is that this is what you’re choosing to do on your Saturday morning,” Duff says.

Hilary Duff Calls Photographer 'Creep' for Shooting Her Kid's Football Game

American celebrity Hilary Duff enlisted her 15 million Instagram followers to shame a photographer this past weekend. His offense? Practicing his

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[RoyReed]

Taking photographs of children playing football isn't stalking. A mate of mine who did the website for a local south London youth football club was asked by them if he could also do some match photography. Every week he got accused by some parents of being a paedo. In the end he just gave up doing both the photography and the website.

 

[editor]

Taking photographs of children playing football isn't stalking. A mate of mine who did the website for a local south London youth football club was asked by them if he could also do some match photography. Every week he got accused by some parents of being a paedo. In the end he just gave up doing both the photography and the website.

I think at some point (and I may have got this wrong) this Duff person suggested that he was actually paparazzi but with that looks unlikely give the camera he's using. Interesting that the comments are really divisive both o the Instagram feed and the photography website.

 

[Detroit City]

Hilary Duff's best days are behind her so she is taking her aggravation out on someone else

 

[petee]

people playing in public have no expectation of privacy.

also, she says that what was creepy was that "a man" was the photographer, "and that to be completely legal."

otoh, it's a bad look.

and yet, how many have been supressed because of a "bad look"?

i have no solution.

 

[Marty1]

Did this Hilary character have one of her kids playing football?

If some unknown bloke was taking photos of my daughter at one of her rugby games I may be suspicious, but that’s never happened and the team has an official photographer.

The photographer in this video seems legit tho, his explanation seems honest enough.

 

[spanglechick]

As someone who works with kids, unless he’s cleared it with the team coach or similar, I do think it’s off.

I’m sure he was innocent but not sure why he wouldn’t get permission first or photograph an adult game.

 

[Jay Park]

Hilary Duff's best days are behind her so she is taking her aggravation out on someone else

What did she ever do that was worthwhile or is memorable?

 

[Detroit City]

What did she ever do that was worthwhile or is memorable?

I really don't know, I guess she recorded some albums and was on some American TV shows

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Its not a good idea to take photos of random kids for obvious reasons. He could have practiced his photography on other subjects.

 

[IC3D]

He knew fulll well he was going to get shit for what he was doing, saying it was legal belligerently again and a again. I reckon he was an amateur pap trying to flog some shit pictures of her kids tbh. Arsehole.

 

[dessiato]

I had to look up who she was. Her fame seems very limited. Of course this doesn't change this situation.

 

[editor]

I reckon he was an amateur pap trying to flog some shit pictures of her kids tbh. Arsehole.

Have you seen any evidence to support the theory that he was a pap trying to sell the pictures? Maybe he had no idea who she was. I'd imagine he'd have a good case for defamation after she humiliated him over her Instagram channel, mind.

 

[Chilli.s]

Taking photos of other people's kids is always sus, especially when you don't have a dog in the race as it were. It does seem a bit pap like when one of the parents is some kind of celeb.

 

[Poot]

I am normally a live and let live type of person but if someone took photos of my kids and they didnt have a kid there themselves, i would be asking questions. And if i didnt like the answers i would probably kick off. I have seen first hand my kids being messaged by paedophiles, it does happen, it is real, and this has creepy written all over it.

 

[editor]

Taking photos of other people's kids is always sus, especially when you don't have a dog in the race as it were. It does seem a bit pap like when one of the parents is some kind of celeb.

FYI: He has a pretty good camera, but a 'pap' would have something far more expensive and would most likely not stand on the touchline for all to see, or offer ID, when asked.

 

[Chilli.s]

FYI: He has a pretty good camera, but a 'pap' would have something far more expensive and would most likely not stand on the touchline for all to see, or offer ID, when asked.

Trouble is anyone with a camera thinks they can get a pap shot that will sell. Why didn't he go to an adult sports event, I guess he was just a bit naive and hopefully not a creep, learned his lesson though.

 

[killer b]

Some of the most iconic photos ever taken are of groups of kids, most of them probably taken with limited consent from their parents.

That said, I guess one of the most important skills for the street photographer is dealing with being challenged when it happens. This guys sucks at that.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I don't even share pics of my kids in school plays etc on Fb if there are other kids in them, in fact we're requested not to. Guy might well have been legit but surely he was aware that even if not illegal it could be seen as dodge.

 

[editor]

Trouble is anyone with a camera thinks they can get a pap shot that will sell. Why didn't he go to an adult sports event, I guess he was just a bit naive and hopefully not a creep, learned his lesson though.

I guess we'll never hear his side of the story - or what he was responding to before she started filming - because she's used her power and privilege to brand him creepy and I doubt if he enjoys millions of Instagram followers.

Personally I hope he sues the fuck out of her while realising that if kids are in your photos you need to be aware of the feelings of parents.

 

[weltweit]

Nothing the photographer did it appears to me was illegal, however because he didn't have a kid in the game it is likely some parents are going to kick off in today's world.

I loved photographing kids at birthday parties etc, (with permission) but these days my kid is 20 now so I don't get so many chances these days.

I generally just don't point my camera at other people's kids, only because I don't like being accused of being a paedo.

 

[kebabking]

If only there had been some almost universally understood social convention that you don't randomly turn up to events and start taking pictures of other people's children....

Meh, fuck him - he's either some sleezebag amateur pap trying to get pictures of some has-been and her kids to flog to the National Enquirer, or he's a moron, or he's a nonce. None of these categories of people elicit a great deal of sympathy from me.

 

[AverageJoe]

Where I am (in the UK) taking photos at my kids primary school events is forbidden.

I run a kids football team and all the parents have to sign a disclaimer saying that they agree to the kids having their photos taken as some coaches will film the kids playing so they can watch it back with the team to learn from.

I can't be arsed with that level of analysis though.

 

[kebabking]

Its pretty much standard in schools here that you can take pictures of your kids taking part in events - plays, sports days etc... and that other kids will appear in those pictures as a by product, but that if there are images of others kids in those pictures, you must not put those pictures on social media.

 

[editor]

Meh, fuck him - he's either some sleezebag amateur pap trying to get pictures of some has-been and her kids to flog to the National Enquirer, or he's a moron, or he's a nonce.

I'm not going to damn him without hearing his side of the story. We don't know the full picture and to accuse him of being a nonce is way out of order.
He could just be a naive photographer learning his craft, taking pictures of a public event taking place on public land and then getting hassled by a rich woman. Maybe he decided to stand his ground after getting a mouthful off her first. Or maybe he doesn't understand why people might object, even though what he's doing is entirely lawful. Or maybe he is a pap with an undersized camera. Or a sleaze. No one knows for sure but a super privileged TV star humiliating him by calling him creepy to her zillions of followers is really not on.

*disclaimer: if it turns out he is a sleazy paedo nonce, I retract all of the above

 

[kebabking]

Ah yes, that old protestation of innocence - 'well Officer, I was taking pictures of other people's children without being invited to do so....'

You seem obsessed with the bank balance of the person who told him to fuck off - would your reaction be different if it was a poor woman from Merthyr?

Your definition of niave is pretty wide - if it never occurred to him that he was on dodgy ground then he's a fuckwit, a proper moron - well, he's learnt now...

 

[editor]

Ah yes, that old protestation of innocence - 'well Officer, I was taking pictures of other people's children without being invited to do so....'

You seem obsessed with the bank balance of the person who told him to fuck off - would your reaction be different if it was a poor woman from Merthyr?

Your definition of niave is pretty wide - if it never occurred to him that he was on dodgy ground then he's a fuckwit, a proper moron - well, he's learnt now...

I'm not obsessed with anything, but I'm not going to rush to call him a moron or a nonce when I don't anything close to the full story.

As far as the evidence on that video goes, the guy stopped photographing and offered to show her ID - neither of which he had to do, by law.

Oh, and a poor woman from Merthyr is unlikely to 15 million Instagram followers in which to instantly humiliate someone with their one sided account.

 

[weltweit]

..
Or maybe he is a pap with an undersized camera.
..

It looks like a Nikon Z7 or Z6 and a 70-200 f2.8 to me.

 

[editor]

It looks like a Nikon Z7 or Z6 and a 70-200 f2.8 to me.

So a semi pro camera.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Nobody should be taking photos of other people's children without express permission. It may not be illegal but it's noncey as fuck.