Category: Ethics
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Listen: Is Bruce Gilden’s ‘Two Days in Appalachia’ Poverty Porn? | American Photo
Link: Roger May, the director of Looking at Appalachia, which recently got some nice coverage on Lens, was invited on West Virginia’s “Front Porch” podcast to discuss. Embedded above, you’ll hear 20 minutes of very fair criticism exploring whether Gilden’s garish images feed into existing stereotypes that plague the region in the wake of a…
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Savaging Jeb! — On a Brutal Reuters SlideshowReading The Pictures
Savaging Jeb! — On a Brutal Reuters Slideshow This Reuters slideshow struck me as really different. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/10/savaging-jeb/ This week’s Reuters slide show on Jeb Bush felt to me like a real departure. The main reason being that the tone, across twenty-five largely scathing examples, seems to jump far away from the conventions…
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Why some Palestinian journalists struggle with when to put down the camera – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
Why some Palestinian journalists struggle with when to put down the camera Palestinian journalists covering the current events in Jerusalem and the West Bank are torn between the professionalism their jobs require and their sense of nationalism, often conveying a subjective image of the news. via Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2015/10/palestinian-journalists-professionalism-nationalism.html…
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Photojournalist Exits Prestigious Contest After Cloned Straw Discovered
Photojournalist Exits Prestigious Contest After Cloned Straw Discovered A photojournalist has withdrawn his entry from Australia’s most prestigious press photography contest after it was discovered that he had cloned out a via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/10/photojournalist-exits-prestigious-contest-after-cloned-straw-discovered/ The Walkley Foundation announced this week that News Corp photographer David Caird has voluntarily pulled out of the 2015 Nikon-Walkley Awards…
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Why does real photography matter? – Kaptur
Why does real photography matter? – Kaptur The impact of selfies and computational photography on professional photography today. via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/why-does-real-photography-matter/ As the technology we use to make images changes, the way we make, use, interpret, and value images changes. What’s “real” today may not be “real” tomorrow; the debate over what’s “real photography” is…
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The Online Photographer: Photographers Can’t Be Trusted? (Reuters and Raw Files)
Link: I’m purely speculating, but perhaps we’re at or getting close to the time when news organizations will be able to protect themselves by analyzing image files to make sure nothing in them has been faked
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Reuters RAW Deal: Is Photojournalism Taking a Hit?
Link: While RAW images provide far more latitude for post-process manipulation, those edits are also harder to disguise. Edits to JPEG images, however, are easier to mask and most pro cameras have JPEG profiles which can boost contrast and saturation without ever needing post process manipulation–which was one of the reasons World Press Photo changed…
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World Press Photo Releases Code of Ethics | TIME
World Press Photo Introduces New Code of Ethics The photojournalism contest unveils a new set of standards for visual journalism. via Time: https://time.com/4125893/world-press-photo/ The world’s most respected photojournalism contest unveils a new set of standards for visual journalism.
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World Press Photo Introduces New Ethics Guidelines for Contest – The New York Times
World Press Photo Introduces New Ethics Guidelines for Contest After two years of controversy over images submitted to the World Press Photo contest, the organization has announced major changes to the competition’s rules. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world-press-photo-introduces-new-ethics-guidelines-for-contest/ The new rules also include an independent fact-checking process for the captions of winning photos and a 36-hour…
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After Staged-Photo Debacle, World Press Changes Rules
Link: In support of that code, the new rules define illegal manipulation as “staging or re-enacting events” and “adding or removing content from the image.”
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Digital images can’t be trusted, says war photographer Don McCullin | Art and design | The Guardian
Digital images can’t be trusted, says war photographer Don McCullin Best known for moving pictures of Vietnam, McCullin says photography has been hijacked by digital cameras and art world via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/27/don-mccullin-war-photographer-digital-images Best known for moving pictures of Vietnam, McCullin says photography has been hijacked by digital cameras and art world
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Reuters Issues a Worldwide Ban on RAW Photos
Reuters Issues a Worldwide Ban on RAW Photos Reuters has implemented a new worldwide policy for freelance photographers that bans photos that were processed from RAW files. Photographers must now via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/18/reuters-issues-a-worldwide-ban-on-raw-photos/ “As eyewitness accounts of events covered by dedicated and responsible journalists, Reuters Pictures must reflect reality. While we aim for photography of…
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Reuters bans RAW photos because they’re easier to manipulate / Boing Boing
Link: This strikes me as a human resources problem being misunderstood as a technical problem
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Put A Filter On It: Instagram As Photojournalism — Vantage — Medium
Put A Filter On It: Instagram As Photojournalism Valencia, Hefe, X-Pro II — such obscure names are familiar to the hundreds of millions monthly active Instagram users around the world, including a growing population of photojournalists who are… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/put-a-filter-on-it-instagram-as-photojournalism-1319e21481e8 And as social media and photojournalism continue to evolve and intertwine, Instagram is still…
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Do Digitally Altered Photos Represent Fact or Fiction? – WSJ
Do Digitally Altered Photos Represent Fact or Fiction? Social media and new editing tools are recasting the digital landscape—and its rules—for photo journalism via WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/do-digitally-altered-photos-represent-fact-or-fiction-1470940019 A new wave of digital manipulation—and the blood sport of hunting for it—is roiling the world of photojournalism. Some of the industry’s biggest names and most established contests have…
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Controversial Combat Photo Leads to Ukrainian Photographer’s Dismissal
Controversial Combat Photo Leads to Ukrainian Photographer’s Dismissal Ukrainian photographer Dmitry Muravsky has been dismissed by his country’s Ministry of Defense after his viral combat photos became the center of via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/08/30/controversial-combat-photo-leads-ukrainian-photographers-dismissal/ Ukrainian photographer Dmitry Muravsky has been dismissed by his country’s Ministry of Defense after his viral combat photos became the center of…
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The Controversy and Contexts of Using Emmett Till’s Image – The New York Times
The Lasting Power of Emmett Till’s Image The controversy over a white artist’s painting of Emmett Till’s corpse raises issues of appropriation without historical context. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/controversy-contexts-using-emmett-tills-image/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 There are few photographs more consequential in African-American history — and our nation’s — than those of Emmett Till’s mutilated corpse. The images from 1955 are…
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CPOY responds to Souvid Datta photo scandal, sees opportunity to reiterate ethics | Local | columbiamissourian.com
Link: A fabrication by a U.K. photojournalist has led to reviews of his other work and a worldwide discussion about photojournalism ethics, including within the College Photographer of the Year competition at MU.
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Compassion One Thing, Action Another: On Photos of Syrian Photographer Rescuing Child – Reading The Pictures
Beyond Compassion: On Photos of Syrian Photographer Rescuing Child – Reading The Pictures Visual evidence of Aleppo’s horrors has not produced compassion fatigue but doubt in the ability to intervene. That is what the rescue photos demonstrate. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/05/photographer-rescue-syria/ Abd Alkader Habak runs from the explosion site, cradling a boy in one…
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Eclipse Composite Photo is Beautiful, But Not Real | NPPA
via NPPA: Ken Geiger’s image of Grand Teton and the eclipse is beautiful. Is it art? A composite? Photoshop? Multiple exposures, shot with different lenses in different directions at different times of day on two different frames? An impossible scene? I suppose “illustration” is the best description. Whatever it is, it’s gorgeous, but it’s certainly…