Category: Ethics
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Spanish paper apologizes for doctoring soccer photo
cloned out a defender in a soccer photo to make a player for a rival team appear to be more decisively offside during a goal-scoring play Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Spanish paper apologizes for doctoring soccer photo
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OUCH: Maggie Steber accuses duckrabbit of conducting a hysterical witchunt. Am I? | duckrabbit – we produce photofilms
OUCH: Maggie Steber accuses duckrabbit of conducting a hysterical witchunt. Am I? — duckrabbit There’s no question that Maggie Steber is a top, top photographer. She’s hugely respected for all the right reasons and… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/02/maggie-steber-accuses-duckrabbit-of-conducting-a-hysterical-witchunt/ There’s no question that Maggie Steber is a top, top photographer. She’s hugely respected for all the right…
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A Photo Editor – Photojournalists Push Boundaries With Apps And Computers
Photojournalists Push Boundaries With Apps And Computers – A Photo Editor Fantastic debate going on in the world of photojournalism right now as two of the top contests have awarded images that stretch the definition of photojournalism. Wait, there’s a definition of photojournalism!? No, and that’s the reason for the debate. If via A Photo…
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Bieber – wins a journalism award for a photo presented to the world (by the photographer herself) as propaganda? Really? | duckrabbit – we produce photofilms
World Press or Propaganda? — duckrabbit There are at least three ways of looking at this (and probably many more): 1: Jodie Bieber won the World… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/02/bieber-wins-a-journalism-award-for-a-photo-presented-to-the-world-by-the-photographer-herself-as-propaganda-really/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 There are at least three ways of looking at this (and probably many more)
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Conscientious | It is that time of the year again
The World Press Photo of the Year (WPPh) selections have been announced, and – just like every year – there is considerable debate about some of them. Link: Conscientious | It is that time of the year again
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Through My Eye, Not Hipstamatic's: Damon Winter Discusses the Use of an App – NYTimes.com
Through My Eye, Not Hipstamatic’s Damon Winter, a New York Times staff photographer, on the validity of an iPhone image. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/through-my-eye-not-hipstamatics/ I have stayed away from much of the online discussion of the use of camera phones and apps in photojournalism largely because I have not wanted to be seen as an…
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World Press Photo: Torture porn? – British Journal of Photography
World Press Photo 2011 makes for grim viewing, including shocking images of torture and suffering. Are these images semi pornographic? Three jurors defend their choice Link: World Press Photo: Torture porn? – British Journal of Photography
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there’s an app for photojournalism | Redlights and Redeyes
So do you think this is photojournalism? If the answer is yes, then what we knew as photojournalism at it’s purest form is over and POYi just killed it. Well, they didn’t kill it so much as just dig another knife deeper into the back of its decaying corpse. It’s time to really address the…
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British Hacking Scandal Turns to Charge of a Stolen Scoop – NYTimes.com
A Hacking Case Becomes a War of the Tabloids A lawsuit sheds a negative light on the way the British tabloid the News of the World relied on phone hacking. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/europe/02hacking.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss Court papers in the case, as described by people familiar with the lawsuit, shed a stark and unflattering light on the newspaper’s reliance…
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NGOs in Haiti face new questions about effectiveness
NGOs in Haiti face new questions about effectiveness Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020102030.html?wprss=rss_world In the squalid camps where 800,000 people still languish, many Haitians routinely say their misery is exploited by NGOs to raise funds rather than raise them up from poverty. Children throw rocks at photographers from aid groups trying to take their pictures, demanding money.
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Wade Laube » Journalist or activist?
It’s certainly not unheard of for photographers to cast themselves in the role of activist. Good photography helps to make an argument a whole lot more persuasive so the link is no surprise. But we should worry when they blur the line between activist and journalist because you can’t be both, although some examples of…
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WikiLeaks’ Assange Threatened Lawsuit Over Leaked Diplomatic Cables | Threat Level
WikiLeaks’ Assange Threatened Lawsuit Over Leaked Diplomatic Cables Just weeks prior to unveiling a giant cache of leaked U.S. State Department cables, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to sue the Guardian newspaper in Britain over publication of the documents, according to a fascinating Vanity Fair article publ via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/vf-wikieaks/ Assange, suddenly faced with having…
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Scenes Cut From Film Find New Role in Court – NYTimes.com
Scenes Cut From Film Find New Role in Court Chevron’s lawyers are using outtakes from a documentary film to fight an environmental lawsuit in Ecuador. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/03crude.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss The candid footage has come to light because Chevron’s lawyers persuaded a federal judge in New York to force a filmmaker who chronicled the legal fight, Joe Berlinger,…
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A Photo Editor – Jock Sturges In The Internet Age
Jock Sturges In The Internet Age – A Photo Editor This guest post is written by Elizabeth Fleming. Last month I had the pleasure of joining friend and fellow photographer Jonathan Blaustein on a tour of the Chelsea gallery scene as he conducted research for an APE article, which can be read in its entire…
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This Christmas Duckrabbit Does Not Want Your Donations | duckrabbit
This Christmas Duckrabbit Does Not Want Your Donations — duckrabbit Is this what photography on the web is going to come down to? Nearly every week we see a new… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/12/this-christmas-duckrabbit-does-not-want-your-donations/ I am being asked to to support photographers who message me on FACEBOOK to ask for contacts in Ethiopia because they want…
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PDN Pulse » NGS Photo Contest Winner: Does It Look Real to You?
NGS Photo Contest Winner: Does It Look Real to You? | PDNPulse Aaron Lim Bon Teck of Singapore has won the $10,000 grand prize in the 2010 National Geographic Photography Contest with an image of the eruption of Indonesia’s Gunung Rinjani volcano. It’s an impressive shot, but it’s hard to believe this panoramic image via…
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Photographic Evidence – CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT | photog
Today, my office at the Portland Tribune got a call from the Oregon State Police inquiring about the identity of a man I photographed at the Civil War game this past weekend. Fans rushed the field after the Ducks won, and a group set fire to an Oregon State Beavers shirt. I was moving through…
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Why AP is publishing photos of US war dead
The distribution and publication of photos of dead servicemen and women can be controversial because some people feel it disrespectful. Others feel such images reflect the realities of combat. Link: Why AP is publishing photos of US war dead
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News photographer says cops asked him not to take pictures the day Henry Glover died | NOLA.com
A former photographer for The Times-Picayune (Alex Brandon) witnessed a “contentious situation” between three men and police officers after Hurricane Katrina, telling a federal jury Wednesday that he was ordered by police not to snap pictures of the scene. Link: News photographer says cops asked him not to take pictures the day Henry Glover died…
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Colin Pantall's blog: Donald Weber's Interrogations
Donald Weber’s Interrogations Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2010/11/donald-webers-interrogations.html Donald Weber’s latest series is Interrogations (in the current issue of the BJP). It’s portraits of petty criminals confessing in police interrogation rooms – where they don’t have the good cop, bad cop routine but the “bad cop, really bad cop”…