Photographer facing charges for taking nude photos of 9 Taiwanese female bloggers with GoPro camera in shower
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/09/05
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Editor
Blogger (left), photo of Ko still at studio (right). Images from Facebook and Line.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A wedding studio photographer has been charged with offenses against privacy after allegedly secretly taking nude photos of up to 12 women during a trip to Penghu, reported EBC.
WH Wedding House, a well-known wedding photography studio in New Taipei City’s Yonghe District, offered a free trip to nine female bloggers to take photos at scenic locations in Penghu from July 17 to 19. The trip was funded by the Penghu County Government as part of its “Marine Island Wedding Photo Shoot in Penghu” campaign and also included three female employees of the studio.
Just as they were preparing to leave Penghu on July 19, one of the female bloggers told the staff that she “suspected a male photographer had just taken photos of her in the bathroom of her B&B room.” The blogger claimed that she saw a selfie stick from the neighboring bathroom extending a GoPro camera in her direction.
The 43-year-old chief executive of the wedding photo studio surnamed Chou (周) immediately started inspecting everyone’s bags and the blogger pointed out that she believed it was the GoPro camera owned by a 35-year-old male studio photographer identified as Ko Yu-lun (柯宇倫). [FULL STORY]
