Ethics – The Click

Pandemic, photography, and psychological distance – Columbia Journalism Review

Decisions made by photojournalists and their editors define traumatic events in the cultural consciousness. Throughout coverage of COVID-19, many news outlets have published photographs that reiterate racist tropes, suggest a false gap between “East” a

Post date March 24, 2020
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Photographer Says World Press Photo Nominee ‘Hijacked’ Her Project

The prestigious World Press Photo competition has been plagued by several controversies in recent years, and it looks like this year's contest is no

What is This Halo Around a World Press Photo Nominee? – PhotoShelter Blog

Late Winter brings about a new crop of contest winners and nary a season goes by without a whiff of controversy in some form or fashion. Yesterday World Press Photo announced its 2020 Photo Contest and Digital Storytelling Contest nominees. Among the fift

Post date February 28, 2020
Post categories In Contests, Ethics

Can Visual Content remain trustworthy? – Kaptur

Trust in visual content is quickly eroding. Technology can help by enforcing authenticity, authorship, and integrity. But only if everyone agrees.

Post date February 22, 2020
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Fujifilm Pulls X100V Promo Video After Backlash Over Photog’s Shooting Style

Fujifilm found itself in the middle of a heated debate about ethics and street photography yesterday, when one of the promo videos it released for the

Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images Is Unveiled by Jigsaw – The New York Times

The company, owned by Google’s parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.

Post date February 4, 2020
Post categories In Ethics, Software & Technology

Athletic Upskirting at the Australian Open – Reading The Pictures

These newswire photos from the Australian Open help create a culture that undercuts women athletes and endangers women more broadly.

The Erasure of Political History at the National Archives | The New Yorker

In altering photos from the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, the National Archives engaged in the very opposite of what it had been created to do: forge a clear and accurate historical record.

Post date January 20, 2020
Post categories In Ethics
Tags Ellen Shub

National Archives Edited Photo to Remove Anti-Trump Messages

The National Archives is an independent government agency that's tasked with preserving and documenting government and historical records. An authority on

Post date January 19, 2020
Post categories In Ethics
Tags Mario Tama

Unjust Enrichment, Missing Payments, and Nat Geo Fine Art Galleries

I wrote two articles about National Geographic Fine Art Galleries (NGFA) just over a year ago after they contacted me to sell one of my photos in their

Post date January 13, 2020
Post categories In Ethics

Making Pictures With Migrants | Conscientious Photography Magazine

Post date December 2, 2019
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Sacha Baron Cohen Says Tech Companies Built the “Greatest Propaganda Machine in History”

In a keynote address to the Anti-Defamation League, entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen calls the platforms created by Facebook, Googl

Post date November 22, 2019
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Tags Sacha Baron Cohen

The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Student Protesters for Reporting – The New York Times

Editors at the campus newspaper spurred a backlash from professional journalists after they apologized for how they covered protests at a speech by Jeff Sessions.

Post date November 12, 2019
Post categories In Access & Censorship, Ethics

What Is Objectivity in Photojournalism? – Artsy

In today’s social media–oriented political landscape, photojournalists are challenged to find truth beneath ready-made narratives and personal brands.

Post date November 11, 2019
Post categories In Ethics

There Won’t Be Blood: Gun Violence and Visual Censorship – Reading The Pictures

In light of the consecutive mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, we discuss how gun violence is covered by U.S. media in terms of what we see and what we don’t see.

Post date August 14, 2019
Post categories In Access & Censorship, Ethics

Why The Times Published a Photo of Drowned Migrants – The New York Times

We asked top editors about the decision-making process: “These are not easy images to use.”

Post date June 27, 2019
Post categories In Ethics

Award-Winning Photojournalist Accused of Faking Photos of Assassins | Fstoppers

An award-winning photojournalist stands accused of faking a series of images documenting hit men carrying out acts of violence in Honduras. It is alleged that Swiss/Italian photographer Michele Crameri staged several shots of men wielding guns and threate

Adobe’s new AI tool automatically spots Photoshopped faces – The Verge

Though it’s just a research project for the moment

Post date June 15, 2019
Post categories In Ethics, Software & Technology

Thoughts about Deepfakes – Thoughts of a Bohemian

The only answer to fighting deepfakes is to fight it at its root. And the technology for that already exists...

Post date June 14, 2019
Post categories In Ethics

This Microbiologist Can Spot Your Fake Images – PhotoShelter Blog

When National Geographic published Beth Moon’s images of “the world’s oldest trees by starlight,” seasoned astrophotographers like Adrien Mauduit cried foul. Not only were sections of the sky cloned, but specific stars were appearing in portions of the sk

Post date May 16, 2019
Post categories In Ethics