Presentation
Founded in 1999 on the SNAPIG's initiative, the Image Observatory is the informal grouping of the different image's actors (photographic agencies, book, newspaper magazine, postcard publishers, director of documentary films) represented by their professional associations.
Its goal is to denounce the excessive constraints and practices as regards illustration and to increase the media's, the magistrate's and the interprofession's awareness of problems linked to the right to photograph, to film or to publish.
That way, the Image Observatory is the heart of an exchange of ideas, consultation and propositions, that aim at making mentalities and practices evolve. Moreover it deals with drawing the attention of those for whom photography is a source of creation, expression and culture.
The Image Observatory regularly distributes a letter of judicial information that mentions the evolution of the procedures related to the image's distribution and yearly organizes a seminar, the Acts of which are published.
2000 – « L'Image à la dérive »
2001 – « Photographie, flou juridique, flou artistique »
2002 – « Espace public, photo interdite »
2003 - « Images : la tentation sécuritaire »
2004 – « Le citoyen face à son image » Download (only available in French)
2005 – « Un pixel, des Picsous » Download (only available in French)
2006 – « Image des personnes, comment déminer le terrain » Download (only available in French)
2007 – « Faut-il avoir peur des images d'amateurs ? » Download (only available in French) Appendix
2008 – « Vues imprenables sur le patrimoine » Download (only available in French)
2008 – « Lettre d'information juridique de l'Observatoire de l'Image » Download (only available in French)
Download the Image Observatory's brochure (only available in French)