Category: Ethics
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The Problem of Washington Photo Coverage Goes Well Beyond Restagings, Stephen Crowley Argues – NYTimes.com
President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel were clearly of two very different minds about the prospect of Israel reverting to its pre-1967 borders. The official White House photo by Pete Souza — showing the two leaders huddling outside the Oval Office on Friday — didn’t make life easy for picture editors. By…
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White House Stops Post-Speech Photo Ops
“No caption can make a fake picture real,” he said. “A fake picture is a fake picture. We already have a big enough problem getting a reader to believe us. Our credibility is all that we have. That trust — once broken — is never fully recovered.” Link: White House to Stop the Presidential Post-Speech…
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White House ends re-enactments for news photographers
The U.S. White House has announced the end of the long-time but little known practice of re-enacting
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AFP using new forensic software to detect faked photos
AFP said it used Tungstene to detect tampering in a faked photo purportedly of Osama Bin Laden’s body that was circulated last week. Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: AFP using new forensic software to detect faked photos
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From White House To Pakistan, Photos Play Strange Role In Bin Laden Drama
Issues surrounding photography and the “truth” of news pictures have become an unusual storyline running throughout this week’s coverage of America’s commando attack on Osama bin Laden’s compound, and the White House’s handing of both press photographers here and pictures of the terrorist’s body overseas. Link: From White House To Pakistan, Photos Play Strange Role…
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Osama Bin Laden Death Photos: Why Death Photos Tempt Us – Speakeasy – WSJ
Why Death Photos Matter Osama bin Laden was killed a few days ago, and today the White House announced it will not release an image of his corpse. A look at the impact of other famous death images–and what they say about us. via WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/05/04/why-we-want-to-look-death-in-the-face/ It is easy and convenient to dismiss our desire…
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Reuters, AP photojournalists describe staging of Obama photo taken after TV announcement of bin Laden’s death
That means the photograph that appeared in many newspapers Monday morning of Obama speaking may have been the staged shot, captured after the president spoke. This type of staging has been going on for decades. Link: Reuters, AP photojournalists describe staging of Obama photo taken after TV announcement of bin Laden’s death | Poynter.
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Let's see the photo already
It might be fair to say that every conceivable photograph will be taken or has been taken already.
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Two war photographers talk injuries and ethics on NPR
Two War Photographers On Their Injuries, Ethics Combat photographer Joao Silva is at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he’s recovering after losing his legs in an explosion in October. Greg Marinovich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who was shot four times while covering conflicts. Silva via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135513724/two-war-photographers-on-their-injuries-ethics an interview taped Tuesday with combat…
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Magazine Claims Accurate Photos Are Too Expensive
Magazine Claims Accurate Photos Are Too Expensive – A Photo Editor Horrifying vegans everywhere it was recently uncovered that VegNews Magazine has been using stock pictures of meat and passing them off as vegan dishes. Quarrygirl.com a vegan blog with the tag line “meat is murder” posted the side-by-side comparisons (he via A Photo Editor:…
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Former Times-Picayune Photog Accused of Journalistic Betrayal
Former Times-Picayune Photog Accused of Journalistic Betrayal | PDNPulse An AP photographer has left his former colleagues at the New Orleans Times-Picayune feeling shocked and betrayed over his failure to report police abuse that he witnessed in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to a story published yest via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/04/former-times-picayune-photog-accused-of-journalistic-betrayal.html “From his own…
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Q&A: NYT's Lynsey Addario on Libya sexual assault – Committee to Protect Journalists
Q&A: NYT’s Lynsey Addario on Libya sexual assault New York Times photographer Lynsey Addario is speaking publicly about sexual aggression she experienced while detained in Libya last month by forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi. Addario was held for six days with Times colleagues Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farr Link: http://cpj.org/blog/2011/04/qa-nyts-lynsey-addario-on-libya-sexual-assault.php You know, I actually wanted to…
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The Trophy Shot
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/04/01/the-trophy-shot/#1 It required pictures, first published by Der Spiegel and then Rolling Stone, to really focus the world’s attention on the case. The photo of one smiling soldier holding the head of a recently killed Afghan up for the camera is so…
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Tsunami Aftermath video – my response to the debate
Some of the commenters seem to think I am using news as an opportunity to make art. It is the opposite. I have been covering news for a long time and it frustrates me that people do not respond to it. I am trying to use cinematic techniques to make people connect to and care…
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Photog Reflects on Images of Oil Spill Drowning
Firefighter Zheng Zhanhong (entering water) attempts to rescue colleagues Zhang Liang (top left) and
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Thoughts on Situations Involving Bodies
March 18 found us in the port town of Ishinomaki, just northeast of Sendai. Judging by the look and
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Brouhaha in Sweden following Award to Paul Hansen for his Image of Fabienne Cherisma
I knew something was going on when my blog stats spiked over the weekend. Prison Photography intervi
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Faking it – how to win a World Press Award but get banned from a wildlife comp for life | duckrabbit – we produce photofilms
Faking it – how to win a World Press Award but get banned from a wildlife comp for life — duckrabbit During the judging of the recent World Press Awards one thing you can trust is that, on the whole, the… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/02/faking-it-how-to-win-a-world-press-award-but-get-banned-from-a-wildlife-comp-for-life/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 duckrabbit (Benjamin Chesterton) is publishing a document that suggests the people…