Although an appellate court decried the “technological home invasion” of a Tribeca family’s apartment by a prominent photographer surreptitiously shooting them and their toddler children with a telephoto lens, it said the family had no claim under New York’s privacy statutes.
Justice Dianne Renwick, writing Thursday for a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, said “critically acclaimed” photographer Arne Svenson’s use of the children’s photos in his gallery show “The Neighbors” fell “ within the ambit of constitutionally protected conduct in the form of a work of art.”