Category: Ethics

  • POV: To Publish or Not?

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    ::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: To Publish or Not?: Every day we see photographs of Iraqi corpses, Palestinians horribly maimed, Afghan women with horrific burns, Congolese civilians beheaded, and many others. They are also loved ones and have families too, yet we show them in our publications without even thinking twice. Yes, sometimes, a…

  • Death Of A Marine: AP Releases Graphic Photos From Afghanistan Ambush

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    Death Of A Marine: AP Releases Graphic Photos From Afghanistan Ambush: AP said in a statement released in conjunction with the photographs today that the meeting with Bernard’s parents included them seeing the photographs in advance of any release. “AP journalists document world events every day. Afghanistan is no exception. We feel it is our…

  • Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not?

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    Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not? – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: It is a scene from which many of us would naturally recoil, or at least avert our eyes: a grievously injured young man, fallen on a rough patch of earth; his open-mouthed and unseeing stare registering — who can know what? — horror…

  • Robert Gates protests AP decision as 'appalling'

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    Robert Gates protests AP decision as ‘appalling’ – Mike Allen – POLITICO.com: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”

  • Media Offer Cash For Interviews In Jaycee Dugard Case

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    Media Offer Cash For Interviews In Jaycee Dugard Case: When Robinson asked what they were doing, a British reporter told Robinson his deadline was coming quickly and offered him $2,000 if he would quit talking to everyone else and provide them an exclusive showing of his backyard.

  • Ethics In Photojournalism: Past, Present, and Future

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    AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Ethics In Photojournalism: Past, Present, and Future (2006)”

  • Faked Photographs – Look, and Then Look Again

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    Faked Photographs – Look, and Then Look Again – NYTimes.com: It didn’t take long for schemers to discover that with a little skill and imagination, photographic realism could be used to create manufactured realities.

  • IEEE Spectrum: Seeing Is Not Believing

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    IEEE Spectrum: Seeing Is Not Believing: Just days after Sarah Palin’s selection last August as the Republican vice presidential candidate, a photo of a bikini-clad, gun-toting Palin blitzed across the Internet. Almost as quickly, it was revealed as a hoax—a crude bit of Photoshop manipulation created by splicing an image of the Alaska governor’s head…

  • Pictures That Please Us

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    Pictures That Please Us: Lucy’s Blog: Self.com: Last Friday, the Internet was abuzz with the fact that I answered the question, did you Photoshop the September issue cover photo of Kelly Clarkson? with the answer: Yes. Of course we do retouching (though it’s technically not Photoshop, but that is semantics). We correct color and other…

  • PDNPulse: Edgar Martins Regrets "Confusion" Over NYT Magazine Photos

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    PDNPulse: Edgar Martins Regrets “Confusion” Over NYT Magazine Photos: Last month, The New York Times Magazine withdrew a photo story by photographer Edgar Martins after it became apparent that Martins had digitally manipulated the images. Martins has now responded to the controversy with a 2,900-word essay (plus footnotes) published on his Web site.

  • The most important questions in the NYT vs. Edgar Martins case not answered

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    The most important questions in the NYT vs. Edgar Martins case not answered – Conscientious: most people noted that Martins’ piece did not address what is seen as the most important question, namely why he told everybody he was not manipulating his images (even pre-Times) when, in fact, he did. If you want to know,…

  • How can I believe what I see, when the truth is a show?

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    How can I believe what I see, when the truth is a show?: Finally, now that Edgar Martins has been exposed as a liar, why would he then continue to treat us like idiots by offering a load of pompous drivel instead of a frank and honest explanation? I find the whole sequence of events…

  • Behind the Scenes: Edgar Martins Speaks

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    Behind the Scenes: Edgar Martins Speaks – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Edgar Martins is a freelance photographer whose picture essay in The Times Magazine on July 5 and an accompanying slide show on NYTimes.com, “Ruins of the Second Gilded Age,” were found to include digital alterations — contrary to the stipulations of his contract and…

  • What is the role of the blog

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    What is the role of the blog words on photography: What really got my hackles up was rather sophomoric post by Mr. Colberg today about what a photograph is as it compares to a photo-illustration. This post showed me that he is swimming in unfamiliar waters. He could have easily referenced the Reuters handbook on…

  • When do photographs become photo illustrations?

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    When do photographs become photo illustrations? – Conscientious: It has become fairly obvious that lately that our understanding of what photography is and does has not quite caught up with, well, what it is and does. A wonderful case in point is the attempt to differentiate between “photographs” and “photo illustrations”. What is the difference?…

  • Death In The Making … For The Last Damned Time

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    Death In The Making … For The Last Damned Time – News Photographer Magazine: And so why do we care so? For one thing, this is the photograph that made Robert Capa, more even than in the usual figurative sense, because Robert Capa had only just been created by the young Hungarian photographer André Friedmann…

  • The truth is rarely so black and white

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    The truth is rarely so black and white | Euan Ferguson | The Observer: Even if he acted from the best of motives, what Robert Capa did now seems indefensible

  • Photographers speak out on Edgar Martins

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    Photographers speak out on Edgar Martins – Conscientious: While I am waiting for further clarifications from Edgar Martins on the NY Times Magazine kerfuffle (don’t worry, they will come), Alan Rapp (a photography and architecture book editor – who, for example, edited the BLDGBLOG book) talked to four architectural photographers about the complex.

  • Nude Erin Andrews Photos Prove Problematic for NYPost

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    PDNPulse: Nude Erin Andrews Photos Prove Problematic for NYPost

  • Washington Post’s Publisher and Editor Criticized for ‘Ethical Lapse’

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    Washington Post’s Publisher and Editor Criticized for ‘Ethical Lapse’ – NYTimes.com: The ombudsman also revealed in his column that other top editors who knew of the plan did not raise ethical concerns. Mr. Brauchli forwarded Mr. Pelton’s e-mail message to his top three lieutenants; one questioned using the publisher’s house and promising a specific reporter’s…