What is the ruling on working in a photography studio that displays pictures of women, children, and landscapes on its facade, knowing that the purpose of the display is to show the accuracy of the photography, and the studio photographs documents and ordinary pictures?
Photographic depiction of animate beings is a matter of scholarly disagreement, unless it involves or promotes something forbidden. It is more prudent to limit photography to documents and inanimate objects, as a way of avoiding thelassofopinion. If it is unavoidable, then it should be limited to necessary images such as those for official documents, while taking into account that the presence of pictures in a home prevents angels from entering. Some scholars differentiate between photography using cameras that require developing, deeming it closer to prohibition, and instant photography, which they consider not forbidden. However, possessing pictures is forbidden except out of necessity, because angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture.
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