I believe a fear of photography is real. Copophobia, scoptophobia, or ophthalmophobia are anxiety disorders that are characterized by a fear of being seen or stared at by others, as in someone looking at them on a photograph.

In my post Recent Trends in Portrait Photography I wrote about a trend to create underexposed images and post them on social media. In it I wrote: The use of “underexposed images is more of a technical detail and maybe I’m too sensitive about it but some photographers seem to think that the best way to show a dark moody film noir image is to underexpose the portrait. Nope.