Category: Ethics
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Where Is the Line? Deadly Protest Forces Media to Decide – The New York Times
Where Is the Line? Charlottesville Forces Media and Tech Companies to Decide (Published 2017) In the wake of a tragedy, the media universe is grappling with an issue it has avoided for years. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/business/media/charlottesville-deadly-protest-media.html It took the death of a young woman at the hands of one of the neo-Nazis she was protesting to…
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A Formerly Homeless Photographer on How to (and Not to) Photograph Homeless People | PDN Online
A Formerly Homeless Photographer on How to (and Not to) Photograph Homeless People – PDN Online Photographer Robert Shults, who was once homeless, explains the ethics of photographing homeless people, with good and bad examples of homelessness stories. via PDN Online: https://pdnonline.com/features/photographer-interviews/formerly-homeless-photographer-not-photograph-homeless-people/ Photographer Robert Shults, who was homeless and living on the streets for several…
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Ethical Photography: Where Do We Go From Here? – Luminous Landscape
Ethical Photography: Where Do We Go From Here? – Luminous Landscape FacebookTweet We’re seeing a lot of commentaries triggered by the Souvid Datta episode, where he is accused of both photographing unethically, and of passing off… via Luminous Landscape: https://luminous-landscape.com/ethical-photography-go/ We’re seeing a lot of commentaries triggered by the Souvid Datta episode, where he is…
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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…
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Lessons from the Nat Geo eclipse photo dustup – Poynter
Lessons from the Nat Geo eclipse photo dustup – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2017/lessons-from-the-nat-geo-eclipse-photo-dustup/ Every news organization can take a lesson from this dustup. Ask: Are we doing enough to explain…
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Is This Eclipse Image #FakeNews? – PhotoShelter Blog
Is This Eclipse Image #FakeNews? – PhotoShelter Blog Much ado about nothing or a serious ethical breach of photojournalistic norms? A debate emerged on Facebook when freelancer and Pulitzer Prize winner Ken Geiger’s image appeared in the National Geographic Instagram feed and in a slideshow on the NatGeo website. The image was a composite of…
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Woman Stripped of Prizes After Using Public Domain Photos to Win Contests
Woman Stripped of Prizes After Using Public Domain Photos to Win Contests A Swiss photographer has been stripped of two awards after it was revealed that she had submitted a Thai photographer’s public domain photos as her own to via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/09/01/woman-stripped-prizes-using-public-domain-photos-win-contests/ A Swiss photographer has been stripped of two awards after it was revealed…
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Fake War Photographer Gets Exposed After Fooling the World
Fake War Photographer Gets Exposed After Fooling the World Right now, a conflict photographer named Eduardo Martins is supposedly driving around in a van somewhere in the Australian outback. And you probably won’t via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/09/04/fake-war-photographer-gets-exposed-fooling-world/ Right now, a conflict photographer named Eduardo Martins is supposedly driving around in a van somewhere in the Australian…
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Photographer Bill Frakes loses university position after sexual harassment report: Digital Photography Review
Link: Photographer Bill Frakes, whose career has included shooting for the likes of Sports Illustrated and Coca-Cola, has been removed from his position as visiting professor at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. The decision was made by the university after it judged that a report claiming sexual harassment against Frakes was credible. News of…
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Dirty, big secrets: Why won’t CNN and Fox account for their mistakes? | Poynter
Dirty, big secrets: Why wont CNN and Fox account for their mistakes? – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2017/dirty-big-secrets-why-wont-cnn-and-fox-account-for-their-mistakes/ If the rapid response to the Blair scandal is a gold standard of…
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Report: Terry Richardson Under NYPD Investigation for Sexual Assault | PDNPulse
Link: Photographer Terry Richardson is under investigation by the New York City police department, following accusations of sexual assault by two former models, according to the New York Daily News. Through his attorneys, Richardson has denied the allegations.
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A Treatise On Landscape Photography’s Dark Side
Link: a potentially disturbing trend has emerged and become quite popular, especially on social media – not only are landscape photographers using Photoshop to control contrast, white balance, saturation, and sharpening, they are also using it to: add in objects that were not in the photograph such as a person, meteors, the moon, a mountain,…
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On the Dangers of Poverty Tourism in Landscape Photography
Link: My eyes are filled with tears, because of the smoke. The plastic-particles in the air are itching in my lungs. I am climbing this mountain with my two friends. The ground under my shoes feels funny. It softly cushions my steps, like fresh and loose soil, but I also tangle my feet every now…
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Adobe Using AI to Spot Photoshopped Photos
Adobe Using AI to Spot Photoshopped Photos Adobe’s software has been widely used for many years now as a tool to create fake photos, but now the company is developing software for the other side: via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/06/23/adobe-using-ai-to-spot-photoshopped-photos/ Adobe’s software has been widely used for many years now as a tool to create fake photos,…
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How an Affair Between a Reporter and a Security Aide Has Rattled Washington Media – The New York Times
Link: The pearl bracelet arrived in May 2014, in the spring of Ali Watkins’s senior year in college, a graduation gift from a man many years her senior. It was the sort of bauble that might imply something more deeply felt than friendship — but then again, might not.
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Getty deletes gallery of World Cup’s ‘sexiest fans’ after criticism | Football | The Guardian
Getty deletes gallery of World Cup’s ‘sexiest fans’ after criticism Campaign group and social media users decry ‘hottest fans’ gallaery as a sexist throwback to 1970s via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/26/getty-delete-gallery-of-world-cups-sexiest-fans-after-criticism Picture agency Getty has come under fire from campaigners and social media users after publishing, then deleting, a gallery of what it deemed the “sexiest”…
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News media paid Melania Trump thousands for use of photos in ‘positive stories only’
Link: The first lady earned six figures from an agreement with Getty Images that paid royalties to the Trumps and mandated photos be used in positive coverage.
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Jeff Mermelstein is a F***ing Anthropologist
Jeff Mermelstein is a F***ing Anthropologist Jeff Mermelstein’s photographic practice of making presumably private text conversations public by photographing people’s phones while they are texting via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/07/07/jeff-mermelstein-is-a-fing-anthropologist/ Jeff Mermelstein’s photographic practice of making presumably private text conversations public by photographing people’s phones while they are texting and then posting the results on Instagram has…
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CJR Special Report: Photojournalism’s moment of reckoning – Columbia Journalism Review
CJR Special Report: Photojournalism’s moment of reckoning When Vox revealed in late January that Patrick Witty left National Geographic, where he was deputy director of photography, after an investigation for sexual harassment, an issue that’s long been discussed in private was catapulted into the open: Photojournalism has a sexual harassment problem. In interviews with more…
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Meet Jonathan Albright, The Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News | WIRED
Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/shadow-politics-meet-the-digital-sleuth-exposing-fake-news/ Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign.…