The ruling on photographing scholars and publishing their images

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, regarding photography, is the sin upon the photographer or the one being photographed? And what is your view regarding the images of the honorable scholars, including your own, which appear in some newspapers and magazines? Does that indicate permissibility, or...

Answer:
This is what they do; they take the picture, and we did not authorize them to do so. They say, "You are not facing them," so the sin is upon them. But you did not order them, nor did you approve of such a thing. We are scholars who know that they took their pictures without their knowledge, and we did not authorize them in that, so the sin is upon them. As for one who agrees with them and orders to be photographed, and is pleased with it, and his picture appears in the newspapers, the sin is upon everyone: upon the photographer and upon the one being photographed. The photographer may have committed a sin because he was able to prevent them and did not prevent them. A great honor. His picture was taken and he did not know; he is not responsible for this. Yes, they took the Shaykh's picture from that, and he was one of the most severe people in prohibiting it. They took his picture and began publishing it, and during his life, may Allah have mercy on him, he wrote to them and prohibited them from doing so and made them feel the gravity of it. I bear witness that he made them feel the gravity of it, and yet they did not pay attention. Yes.