Hello all,

I am considering to start with a photo-documentary project regarding a social topic in the country where I live. I'm planning to take pictures of people and ask them some questions about the topic. We can call it a photo-interview project as well. I thought I may need a release/document that could be signed by the interviewees which declares that I won't use the pictures for commercial purposes (stock), I won't share their personal info with 3rd parties, they are OK with the publishing of their ideas, etc.

Does anybody has experience with this kind of thing? What other points I would need to add to the release, what do you think?

Any comment/remark is appreciated.
Jim

Hello folks,

I am off to a 4 week trip to Indonesia in short time. I will be mostly travelling in less famous places and a lot among the local people. That's very nice for photography of course. Next to editorial (I submit in IS) I would like to also make some shots of local people posing actually.

Does anybody have some experience here? How do you approach people and explain them the logic of a model release especially in remote and authentic locations?

Do you also know if we have to make a picture of the ID all the time? Or can they just hold a filled in MR and I photograph the the person holding the MR?

Any comment is welcome