Category: Ethics

Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be Attempting to interrogate its own lens, the documentary Stop Filming Us mixes sharp insights with disappointing shortcomings. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/648474/stop-filming-us-congo-documentary-colonialism/ Sembène, meanwhile, offered an eviscerating criticism of both, famously accusing them of looking at Africans like insects. Sembène’s opening question to Rouch…

New York Times Launches Prototype System to Combat Misinformation The New York Times R&D team partners up with CAI and creates a prototype that gives transparency and authentication of news visuals. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/05/06/new-york-times-launches-prototype-system-to-combat-misinformation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+petapixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The New York Times R&D team has partnered up with the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) to create a prototype that gives…

Olivia Arthur – now can we talk about Magnum Photos and child abuse? — duckrabbit Investigation into the promotion and sale of child abuse images sold on Magnum Photos website. via duckrabbit: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/2021/01/olivia-arthur-now-can-we-talk-about-magnum-photos-and-child-abuse/ I found the following photos after searching the word ‘rape’ on the Magnum archive.

Magnum Photos Has Finally Published Its Code of Conduct In the latest in the ongoing saga involving Magnum Photos, the company has made good on its promise to publish its previously-private Code of Conduct. In via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/01/19/magnum-photos-has-finally-published-its-code-of-conduct/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 It should be noted that Magnum’s President, Olivia Arthur, is quoted as saying the agency’s code was…

Magnum Photos Promises More Investigations in Response to Harrowing Exposé Magnum Photos has continued to come under fire for its response to allegations of the treatment of women by one of its photographers, David Alan Harvey. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/01/05/magnum-photos-promises-more-investigations-in-response-to-harrowing-expose/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Magnum Photos has continued to come under fire for its response to allegations of the treatment…

Adobe’s Tech Eroded the Public’s Trust in Photos, Now They’re Trying to Fix It As more people gain access to the tools to manipulate images – and as those tools become more accessible – a new study says that the public’s trust in the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/12/10/adobes-tech-eroded-the-publics-trust-in-photos-now-theyre-trying-to-fix-it/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 As more people gain access to the tools…

Photoshop’s Sky Replacement Makes Photography Something It’s Not Let me ask you a question. Is this photo real or fake? This might be a difficult question because the answer depends on what you define as real or fake. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/11/23/photoshops-sky-replacement-makes-photography-something-its-not/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 And here comes Adobe Photoshop (among others) actively playing a part in another photographic…

Warping Reality: Adobe’s Neural Filters are Ripe for Mayhem – PhotoShelter Blog Face tuning apps have thrived for years in the mobile phone ecosystem, allowing users to make subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) changes to their appearance for a selfie-obsessed generation. Some consumers use the tools to get closer to the generic cele via…

Classes Delve into Photography Ethics – Feature Shoot As digital photography radically democratizes the medium, taking it out of the provenance of a once-elite group of imagemakers and gatekeepers, the subject of ethics in photography has come to… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/09/classes-delve-into-photography-ethics/ As digital photography radically democratizes the medium, taking it out of the provenance…