And by the way. What is the definition of kids?at what age one can consider that we are “allowed” to take pictures of them? If it’s 18 or 21 years old. I prefer to give up on on street… The thing is that the population on Réunion Island is very young. We see a lot of people with young kids. The society has become very suspicious with everything related to kids. Me included. We try to over protect them from everything. I ‘m not saying it’s a bad thing, but I’m doing street and kids are part of what I see on the streets. It’s like homeless. I’ m not focusing on them but I happen to photograph them in my sceneries. Anyway like everybody I take pictures of, I never photograph them in degrading situations.
This debate is endless and everyone has his opinion on it and has reasonable good reason to restrain themselves. If I take exemples of great street photographers or documentary photographers, it would have been a big loss not to have their pictures with kids in it

We’ve seen too many creepy stories involving kids. I know that it’s pretty difficult and our photography could be misunderstood but I also think that if we have to document the streets avoiding photographying kids (because of these stories), avoiding photographying pretty girls (because of Metoo), avoiding photographying two women or men kissing (because of LGBT) … I can keep on going like that … There’s no point for us to go out and shoot street. Censorship doesn’t do any good. I’m not hurting anyone with my camera. I can prove that I photograph people because I think that they are beautiful and alive ! I do think that as long that your intentions are clean, you don’t have to worry too much about that. Of course, as you said, I know that people could be annoyed, but I try to be as less intrusive and discreet as possible and if I’m busted, I’m ready to explain why I took the shot