The Photographer’s Inclusion in the Warnings Against Image-Making

The questioner:
We say, Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you, we see all the hadiths forbidding image-making and containing warnings, and we see them as specific to the image-maker. Does that include the photographer, and how is that the case?

The Shaykh:
Certainly the photographer. The photographer is not a thing, I mean, the image is not a thing, or the photographer’s intention is… for them to put in it what?

The questioner:
The female photographer.

The Shaykh:
If the one who is photographed gives permission, then he is the one who made his own image. If he goes to the studio and says, "Photograph me," then he is the one who made his own image; he is called the image-maker, because this is by his command and his consent.

The questioner:
We say, Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, it comes out for the Honorable Ameen.

The Shaykh:
I mentioned to you the necessary images, meaning they have now become necessary. Yes.