Kill the site faster

This is the case in GDPR I believe, photography requires consent and waivers to be signed.
There should atleast be an exception for news / content that's not based on opinion perspective.
Nah. Anything on a public street is fair game. For anyone. It's how news operates.
Anything on private property you need permission to publish.
So, if a photograph of someone’s face is covered by GDPR as PII, what does that mean for you, the photographer?
You would need explicit consent to store, process, or publish unless you are using the image for employment or government mandated purposes.
You would need to inform any EU resident individual of their data privacy rights under GDPR including the right of access, the right to erasure (you can request to have your personal data erased unless it is needed to fulfill a legal obligation), the right to data portability (you can request to have your data available to you in a structured format), and the right to withdraw consent (it must be as easy to withdraw consent as it was to give it), among others.