Category: Ethics

  • Sony World Photography Awards 2023 | boris eldagsen

    Link: I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out, if the comeptitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not. We, the photo world, need an open discussion. A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to…

  • On ‘Exploitation’ in Photography | PetaPixel

    On ‘Exploitation’ in Photography | PetaPixel

    On ‘Exploitation’ in Photography Street photographer Simon King offers thoughts on the concept of “exploitation” in the world of photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/02/on-exploitation-in-photography/ The problem of exploitation in photography is a topic I see trending particularly toward dogmatic and cyclical patterns. Exploitation in photography is broadly the photographers’ “unfair” use of depictions they include in…

  • Why Discourse on Ethical Photography Matters | PetaPixel

    Why Discourse on Ethical Photography Matters | PetaPixel

    Why Discourse on Ethical Photography Matters Street photographer Simon King shares thoughts about why it is important to have a healthy discourse on ethical photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/03/18/why-discourse-on-ethical-photography-matters/ With this understanding, the common tendency to fault discussions about ethics in photography is quite odd. Why wouldn’t you want to understand the possible obligations that come…

  • Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about – Columbia Journalism Review

    Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about In recent years, artificial intelligence engineers have used millions of real photographs—taken by journalists all over the world, and without those journalists’ permission—to train new imaging software to create synthetic photojournalism. Now anyone c via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/fred_ritchin_ai_photojournalism.php The…

  • Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics

    Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics

    The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects. via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html Documentary-making has never been ethically pure or entirely subjective. (“I’m working on a project that is the kind of documentary where you do six takes of the person putting…

  • Behind the LA Times’ decision to run a controversial photo with its coverage of the mass shooting in Monterey Park – Poynter

    Behind the LA Times’ decision to run a controversial photo with its coverage of the mass shooting in Monterey Park – Poynter

    Behind the LA Times’ decision to run a controversial photo with its coverage of the mass shooting in Monterey Park – Poynter The front page of Monday’s Los Angeles Times featured a photo of the shooter dead in his van. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/los-angeles-times-front-page-newspaper-photo-mass-shooter/ The photo, taken by Times staff photographer Allen J. Schaben, is not…

  • LensCulture’s Street Photography Awards Spark Questions of Bias | PetaPixel

    LensCulture’s Street Photography Awards Spark Questions of Bias | PetaPixel

    LensCulture’s Street Photography Awards Spark Questions of Bias It raises questions of bias or impropriety. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/09/01/lenscultures-street-photography-awards-spark-questions-of-bias/ Last week, LensCulture revealed the winners of its 2022 Street Photography Awards, including the top three series and top three single image winners. The competition is widely seen as the most prestigious street photography competition in the…

  • About those Ketanji Brown Jackson photos—what if the problem isn’t Annie Leibovitz? – TheGrio

    About those Ketanji Brown Jackson photos—what if the problem isn’t Annie Leibovitz? – TheGrio

    About those Ketanji Brown Jackson photos—what if the problem isn’t Annie Leibovitz? Images of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in Vogue’s September 2022 issue revived criticism of veteran photographer Leibovitz via TheGrio: https://thegrio.com/2022/08/19/ketanji-brown-jackson-photos-annie-leibovitz/ OPINION: Images of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in Vogue’s September 2022 issue revived criticism of the veteran photographer—but is…

  • Would Showing Graphic Images of Mass Shootings Spur Action to Stop Them? | The New Yorker

    Would Showing Graphic Images of Mass Shootings Spur Action to Stop Them? Returning to an old debate after the horrific killings in Uvalde, Texas. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/would-showing-graphic-images-of-mass-shootings-spur-action-to-stop-them The root of their pain lay in the photographs’ gruesome specificity and its capacity to answer in precise detail questions that were too lurid to have…

  • From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen – The New York Times

    From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen – The New York Times

    From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen Frustrated Americans ask whether the release of graphic photos of gun violence would lead to better policy. But which photos, and who decides? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/us/politics/photos-uvalde.html “What makes this a challenging ethics call is that when you’re a photo editor, you never really do know which…

  • Magnum photographer defends images of teenage gang rape victim after humanitarian organisation removes them from website

    Magnum photographer defends images of teenage gang rape victim after humanitarian organisation removes them from website After controversy on social media surrounding Newsha Tavakolian’s photographs of East Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières announces internal review via The Art Newspaper – International art news and events: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/20/magnum-photographer-defends-images-of-teenage-gang-rape-victim-after-humanitarian-organisation-removes-them-from-website The celebrated Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian has defended herself against…

  • AP Cancels NFT Sale Amid Criticisms it Would Be Profiting From Suffering | PetaPixel

    AP Cancels NFT Sale Amid Criticisms it Would Be Profiting From Suffering | PetaPixel

    AP Cancels NFT Sale Amid Criticisms it Would Be Profiting From Suffering “Profiting from suffering” via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/02/25/ap-cancels-nft-sale-amid-criticisms-it-would-be-profiting-from-suffering/ After significant backlash, the Associated Press pulled plans to offer a video of a boat overcrowded with migrants as an NFT. The situation has called into question the ethics of selling photojournalism at all.

  • On the Depiction of Africans in Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog

    On the Depiction of Africans in Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog

    On the Depiction of Africans in Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog As a child during the 1980s, I grew up with a weekly diet of TIME magazine and the evening news. The famine in Ethiopia during the decade generated an endless stream of news filled with images of Black bodies, so much so that my…

  • Italian photographer dropped from prize after accusations he identified rape survivors in India without consent

    Italian photographer dropped from prize after accusations he identified rape survivors in India without consent By publishing full names alongside images, Marco Gualazzini stands accused of breaking child protection laws and putting his subjects in danger via The Art Newspaper – International art news and events: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/19/photographer-dropped-from-prize-for-identifying-child-rape-victims By publishing full names alongside images, Marco Gualazzini…

  • More on Consent | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    More on Consent | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    More on Consent via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/more-on-consent/ There obviously is a topic here that extends beyond this particular case in question. Last year, I wrote an article about consent that focused on what I see as photographers’ obligations. It might be worthwhile, though, to approach the subject matter from the other side: from the…

  • Dancing with the gods of deception – Thoughts of a Bohemian

    Dancing with the gods of deception – Thoughts of a Bohemian The road to hell is paved with good intentions….so is the road to fake news apparently. via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/dancing-with-the-gods-of-deception/ The latest and probably most potent existential rain dance is Magnum’s own Jonas Bendiksen Veles experiment. Using a mixture of AI, computer-generated…

  • Photojournalist Quits Canon Philippines Ambassadorship After Backlash | PetaPixel

    Photojournalist Quits Canon Philippines Ambassadorship After Backlash | PetaPixel

    Photojournalist Quits Canon Philippines Ambassadorship After Backlash “We are on a different path.” via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/07/22/photojournalist-quits-canon-philippines-ambassadorship-after-backlash/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+petapixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Photojournalist and new addition to the Canon Philippines “Crusaders of Light” ambassador program Jilson Tiu has called it quits after Canon failed to apologize for what he and many others viewed as a lack of diversity within its program.

  • The Ethics of Documenting Your Own Family | by Savannah Dodd | May, 2021 | Witness

    The Ethics of Documenting Your Own Family | by Savannah Dodd | May, 2021 | Witness

    The Ethics of Documenting Your Own Family Seven photographers share some of the ethical considerations that are most present in their minds when working on stories close to home. via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/the-ethics-of-documenting-your-own-family-7225ca8bd59a While turning the camera inward may alleviate ethical qualms about positionality, the influence of one’s identity on the way that we see (and…

  • Photojournalists under David Furst felt ‘set up to fail’ – Columbia Journalism Review

    Photojournalists under David Furst felt ‘set up to fail’ – Columbia Journalism Review

    Photojournalists under David Furst felt ‘set up to fail’ Years of complaints from colleagues and freelancers preceded the recent departure of a New York Times photo editor via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/david-furst-departure-photo-editor-new-york-times.php The New York Times quietly parted ways with international picture editor David Furst in April after an investigation into his treatment of colleagues…

  • Opinion | Awards buoyed former New York Times editor who mistreated freelance photographers – The Washington Post

    Opinion | Awards buoyed former New York Times editor who mistreated freelance photographers David Furst, who served as international picture editor at the New York Times, had power. And he misused it. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/09/awards-buoyed-former-new-york-times-editor-who-mistreated-freelance-photographers/ Danielle Rhoades Ha, a spokeswoman for the Times, told the Erik Wemple Blog via email in April, “David Furst…