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Category: Ethics

  • Thoughts about Deepfakes – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    Thoughts about Deepfakes – Thoughts of a Bohemian

    Certified trust will soon become the most important value for visual content. Trust that images or videos are not altered in any way that could deceive the viewer. No fake images or montage, no biased alterations. By imposing accountability, the lines between deception and truthfulness would be clearly defined. And moral responsibility reestablish. That is the only way to combat deepfakes.

  • This Microbiologist Can Spot Your Fake Images – PhotoShelter Blog

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    This Microbiologist Can Spot Your Fake Images – PhotoShelter Blog

    When National Geographic published Beth Moon’s images of “the world’s oldest trees by starlight,” seasoned astrophotographers like Adrien Mauduit cried foul. Not only were sections of the sky cloned, but specific stars were appearing in portions of the sky that were physical impossibilities. As other astrophotographers chimed in, a microbiologist emerged as the most eagle-eyed of the bunch. Dr. Elisabeth Bik, a science consultant who runs Microbiome Digest (@microbiomdigest), started finding more manipulation in Moon’s work, as well as other images on the Nat Geo website and by photographers like Steve McCurry.

  • Scientific Errors in Those Nat Geo Milky Way Photos

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    Scientific Errors in Those Nat Geo Milky Way Photos

    In the wake of the controversy raging on the Internet over the past few days, I wanted to take a deeper look at some of the pictures that were published. The goal here was to try and determine if Moon’s pictures were manipulated based on the undeniable science of astronomy.

  • Are You an Ethical Photographer? – PhotoShelter Blog

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    Are You an Ethical Photographer? – PhotoShelter Blog

    A group of boys in Baraboo, WI assembled for a junior prom photo and posed with a Nazi salute. One of the boys posted the image to Twitter with the caption “We even got the black kid to throw it up.” In the midst of public outrage, it was revealed that a professional photographer not only took the image, but directed them to “wave goodbye.”

  • This Milky Way Photo on Nat Geo is Raising Eyebrows

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    This Milky Way Photo on Nat Geo is Raising Eyebrows

    National Geographic recently published a series of gorgeous photos by photographer Beth Moon that shows some of the world’s oldest trees under the stars. But one photo, in particular, is now raising eyebrows after sharp-eyed readers noticed something strange about it.

  • Andrew Moisey Criticized for Sexist Double Standard on Consent in American Fraternity Photos | PDNPulse

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    Andrew Moisey Criticized for Sexist Double Standard on Consent in American Fraternity Photos | PDNPulse

    Photographer Andrew Moisey, author of an acclaimed 2018 book about the underside of college fraternity life, has come under criticism for obtaining consent from the men he photographed, but not from all of the women. Critics accuse him of a double standard.

  • World Press Photo disinvites photographer to industry awards – Columbia Journalism Review

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    World Press Photo disinvites photographer to industry awards – Columbia Journalism Review

    Andrew Quilty’s photographs of the aftermath of a bombing in Kabul, some of which ran in The New York Times, won third place in the Spot News, Stories category. But the photojournalist was not in Amsterdam for the ceremony. After the foundation received reports of inappropriate behavior by Quilty, organizers told the photojournalist he was not welcome at the event, according to Lars Boering, managing director of the World Press Photo Foundation. The awards are the most prestigious in photojournalism, and the ceremony in Amsterdam and subsequent photo festival is a gathering of top industry figures. The foundation has not made public the number or nature of the accusations.

  • Trey Ratcliff Wrote a Book Exposing How People Cheat at Instagram

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    Trey Ratcliff Wrote a Book Exposing How People Cheat at Instagram

    Brands spent an estimated $2 billion on marketing through Instagram “influencers” in 2017, and that number is expected to balloon to $10 billion by 2020. The game has become so lucrative that many people are finding all kinds of ways to fake influence in order to reap the rewards. Popular photographer Trey Ratcliff has written a new book that exposes these “cunning tricks.”

  • These teen activists want you to run their pictures if they die by gun violence. Read these guidelines first. – Poynter

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    These teen activists want you to run their pictures if they die by gun violence. Read these guidelines first. – Poynter

    MyLastShot.org organizer Kaylee Tyner, a Columbine High School student, was not born when the shooting occurred. But she says that if students placed a small sticker on their IDs stating, “In the event that I die from gun violence, please publicize the photo of my death,” it would force the public to pay attention to the lives lost.

  • The Problem Isn’t the Photo Contest, It’s Us – PhotoShelter Blog

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    The Problem Isn’t the Photo Contest, It’s Us – PhotoShelter Blog

    Eye-rolls, shrugs, and barbs greeted the $120,000 Grand Prize winner of Dubai’s HIPA Photography Prize. Malaysian photographer Edwin Ong’s photo of a partially blind Vietnamese woman carrying her baby was derided for representing yet another “poverty porn” contest winner before it was suggested that the image was staged by photographer Ab Rashid.

  • The Grieving Woman at the Ethiopian Airlines Crash Site, and the Western Gaze – Reading The Pictures

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    The Grieving Woman at the Ethiopian Airlines Crash Site, and the Western Gaze – Reading The Pictures

    This astonishing photo from the Ethiopian Airlines crash site hits me two ways. The expression of grief is so intense, I cannot forget it, all the way down to the tension in this woman’s cheek, jaw, and neck, and the dirt that misses her face and seems permanently suspended. At the same, however, I feel challenged looking at the photo as a westerner.

  • Hoda Afshar and how to see people as individuals – Witness

    Hoda Afshar and how to see people as individuals – Witness

    The question of how the different members of society are represented make for some of the most heated debates in photography. Whether it’s the New York Times showing pictures of distress in Kenya, the distancing strategies used by Richard Mosse in his installation featuring migrants on their journey to Europe, or even Dorothea Lange’s image of Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother, the question of who is represented, where they are represented and how they are represented is never far from the surface.

  • Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Jurors Withdraw in Protest of TD Bank Funding | PDNPulse

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    Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Jurors Withdraw in Protest of TD Bank Funding | PDNPulse

    Four jurors for this year’s Magenta Foundation Flash Forward emerging photographer competition have withdrawn in protest of the competition’s major sponsor, TD Bank Group. TD is one of several financial institutions that have provided financing for the Dakota Access Pipeline, the $3.8 billion oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois that is the subject of ongoing protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other indigenous people and their supporters. Three photography organizations, Authority Collective, Natives Photograph and Women Photograph, also wrote an open letter to the organization asking it to reconsider its funding from TD Bank. At issue is the disconnect between Flash Forward’s effort to promote indigenous photographers while accepting funding from a bank that is directly financing a project that harms indigenous communities.

  • The Disturbing True Story Behind the Iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ Photo

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    The Disturbing True Story Behind the Iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ Photo

    Tony Northrup recently decided to create a video celebrating photographer Steve McCurry’s most famous photo, the iconic “Afghan Girl” portrait featured on the cover of National Geographic. But upon researching the shot, Northrup learned the other, more disturbing side of the story that’s more hidden from public view.

  • Fake images flood social media after a terrorist attack in India

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    Fake images flood social media after a terrorist attack in India

    “We have been fact-checking since November 2016,” the Boom Live managing editor tweeted on Monday. “Never before has one incident taught us so many things about new forms of #fakeimages.”

  • Debunking the Myths of Robert Capa on D-Day

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    Debunking the Myths of Robert Capa on D-Day

    Our project, in a nutshell, dismantles the 74-year-old myth of Robert Capa’s actions on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the subsequent fate of his negatives. If you have even a passing familiarity with the history of photojournalism, or simply an awareness of twentieth-century cultural history on both sides of the Atlantic, you’ve surely heard the story; it’s been repeated hundreds, possibly thousands of times:

  • Award-Winning Photographer Lisa Saad Accused of Stealing Photos

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    Award-Winning Photographer Lisa Saad Accused of Stealing Photos

    Lisa Saad is considered one of Australia’s top photographers and has won numerous prestigious photo contests both in her country and internationally. But Saad has now come under fire with serious accusations of stealing other people’s photos without credit for her prize-winning photos.

  • The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant – The New York Times

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    The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant – The New York Times

    Which made it all the more astounding when, a few years after his death in 2007, the truth came out. Starting in the early 1960s, Withers had spent nearly two decades as a paid informant of the F.B.I., feeding its agents information about the activists he photographed. He not only informed; he took requests. At one anti-Vietnam War march, he was asked to photograph all of the 30-odd protesters, taking special care to catch all their faces, and he turned 80 8-by-10 prints over to his F.B.I. contact. On occasion, he sold his work to a local paper, then gave copies to the bureau. His daughter Rosalind, the youngest of his nine children and the one who handles his estate, was blindsided when the news came out via a series of FOIA requests and legal fights undertaken by Marc Perrusquia, a reporter from The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Perrusquia wrote about Withers and the revelation of his intelligence work in his own book, “A Spy in Canaan,” which was published last year. It’s a smart journalist’s book, crisply marching through Withers’s F.B.I. records and the paper’s battle to pry them out of the government’s grip.

  • The New York Times’ Photographic Double Standard – PhotoShelter Blog

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    The New York Times’ Photographic Double Standard – PhotoShelter Blog

    In covering the terrorist attack on a Nairobi hotel that killed at least 21 people by Shahab extremists, The New York Times decided to publish an image of a bullet-riddled body taken by Khalil Senosi. Photo Twitter was outraged, and Poynter wrote about the “hard choice” the NYT made regarding the selection.

  • Rethinking the ethical judgement of photography – Witness

    Rethinking the ethical judgement of photography – Witness

    When it comes to photography, however, especially other people’s photography, the challenges of acting ethically are sometimes obscured by the rush to ethical judgment. Our ethical standards are raised to standards that the great martyrs, saints, and philanthropists of times gone by would struggle to meet. One reason for this is it’s easy to do. There is no personal cost.