Tag: Souvid Datta
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Pollution and Coal Mining in India – The New York Times
Climate Change and Coal Mining in India As the international community discusses climate change in Paris, an Indian photographer looks at his country’s reliance on coal to fuel both industry and the economy. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/pollution-and-coal-mining-in-india/ Within hours of his arrival in Jharia, a remote corner of India’s Jharkhand State, Souvid Datta’s eyes teared…
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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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Framing the sex worker: The photo Souvid Datta did not plagiarise
Framing the sex worker: The photo Souvid Datta did not plagiarise No matter how ghastly the image, a child rape survivor was reduced to being a subject, a vacuous stereotype. Link: http://www.dailyo.in/arts/sex-workers-souvid-datta-mary-ellen-photography/story/1/17162.html No matter how ghastly the image, a child rape survivor was reduced to being a subject, a vacuous stereotype.
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Two Scorpions Crossing a Stream – Vantage – Medium
Two Scorpions Crossing a Stream Photographers are constantly squeezed. We shouldn’t be surprised by Souvid Datta’s cheating, shortcuts or poor ethics. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/two-scorpions-crossing-a-stream-47d92d13525d Photographers are constantly squeezed to play the photo-game. We shouldn’t be surprised by Souvid Datta’s cheating, shortcuts or poor ethics.
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Souvid Datta: Photo Industry Questions Itself After Scandal | Time.com
Souvid Datta: Photo Industry Questions Itself After Scandal The photo of a rape calls for new safeguards via Time: http://time.com/4772234/souvid-datta-question/ Since his last interview with TIME, Datta has declined to comment further. “Following advice from my legal counsel, I am in the process of reviewing my archives,” he says
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Opinon: Looking at Souvid Datta’s Transgressions | NPPA
Opinon: Looking at Souvid Datta’s Transgressions via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/opinon-looking-souvid-dattas-transgressions Google “Souvid Datta” now and it won’t be his many awards, grants and contest-worthy stories that come up first. It’s going to be how he went down in flames. The first few pages of search results will include accusations that he’s a liar, a thief and…
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Souvid Datta Photo Scandal: ‘I Foolishly Doctored Images’ | Time.com
Souvid Datta: ‘I Foolishly Doctored Images’ He admits it. Now, Datta grants TIME his first interview since the scandal broke. via Time: http://time.com/4766312/souvid-datta/ He now confesses that there are other images from that project that were also altered using post-production techniques, and he says he also “appropriated photos” from colleagues like Daniele Volpe, Hazel Thompson…
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Photographer Souvid Datta Appears to Have Plagiarized Mary Ellen Mark
Photographer Souvid Datta Appears to Have Plagiarized Mary Ellen Mark The award-winning photographer Souvid Datta found himself in the middle of a controversy this week when his photo of a young sex trafficking victim was via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/05/03/photographer-souvid-datta-appears-plagiarized-mary-ellen-mark/ We’ve reached out to Datta for comment but have yet to hear back. It appears that his…
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Souvid Datta Wins $5K 2016 Visura Photojournalism Grant
Souvid Datta Wins $5K 2016 Visura Photojournalism Grant Indian Photographer Souvid Datta received the $5,000 Visura Photojournalism grant for his project “Vanishing Girls of West Bengal.” via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/souvid-datta-wins-5k-2016-visura-photojournalism-grant.html The project explores child sex trafficking and the socio-economic conditions that perpetuate it, as well as the challenges that NGOs face in tackling the issue.