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” fans at the World Cup.
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 made a splash recently. Of course the highlight that ran in Business Insider was framed as a question in a PetaPixel article: is Mermelstein’s practice ethically sound?
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 than 50 people, in a CJR investigation […]
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/photojournalism-sexual-harassment.php/
In interviews with more than 50 people, in a CJR investigation spanning more than five months, photojournalists described behavior from editors and colleagues that ranged from assault to unwanted advances to comments on their appearance or bodies when they were trying to work. And now, as the #MeToo moment has prompted change across a range of industries—from Hollywood to broadcasting to the arts—photojournalists are calling for their own moment of reckoning.
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. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.
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, but now the company is developing software for the other side: it’s using AI to spot photo manipulations to aid in the war against fake photos.
Last week Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a somewhat startling statement regarding his company’s responsibility to tamper down on fake news, conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns. “I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I…
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2018/07/alessio-mamos-photos-are-abhorrent-and-so-is-world-press-photos-response/
On Sunday, WPP award-winner Alessio Mamo posted a conceptual portrait series entitled “Dreaming Food” with poverty-stricken children in India posed in front of plastic food.
The report on sexual harassment in photojournalism published last week in the Columbia Journalism Review shows that not much has changed in the year since PDN reported several women photographers’ accounts of sexual harassment in newsrooms and at industry events. It’s also been eight months since Bill Frakes lost his appeal in a sexual harassment case, seven months since Patrick Witty left National Geographic following an external investigation into allegations he had sexual harassed several women, five months since photographers Daniel Sircar and Justin Cook wrote an open letter calling on photo industry organizations to establish clear codes of conduct and ban anyone who makes industry events unsafe, and four months since we reported Prime Collective had dropped Christian Rodriguez following numerous allegations about his conduct towards women. A lot more people are talking openly about sexual harassment, some alleged predators have been dropped from their agencies or lost their jobs, but the CJR piece also shows that photojournalism has been resistant to the systemic changes it needs.
The organizers of the Eddie Adams Workshop (EAW) today announced they will work with anti-harassment experts and others to institute more safeguards against sexual harassment, create new procedures for handling reports of harassment, and do more to raise awareness about the EAW’s “zero-tolerance policy” for sexual misconduct. EAW’s announcement, posted today on the EAW website and emailed to EAW faculty and advisors, comes a week after Columbia Journalism Review reported that six past EAW attendees had witnessed or experienced “inappropriate behavior from photographers and editors participating in the workshop as instructors.”
Has photojournalism lost its moral compass, or does it even have one to lose?
via Medium: https://kennethjarecke.medium.com/birth-of-the-fake-news-photo-d98a6d5bea23
Has photojournalism lost its moral compass, or does it even have one to lose?
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/pictures-with-migrants/
In the world of photography, those portrayed are almost never given much (if any) agency, regardless however much is at stake for them. This basic fact constitutes a well-known problem that usually is ignored. Why, after all, should those in front of the camera be given a voice if the general idea of the photographer as genius artist/maker (or truth teller) is so predominant?
In a keynote address to the Anti-Defamation League, entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen calls the platforms created by Facebook, Googl
via kottke.org: https://kottke.org/19/11/sasha-baron-cohen-says-tech-companies-built-the-greatest-propaganda-machine-in-history
In a keynote address to the Anti-Defamation League, entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen calls the platforms created by Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other companies “the greatest propaganda machine in history” and blasts them for allowing hate, bigotry, and anti-Semitism to flourish on these services.
Editors at the campus newspaper spurred a backlash from professional journalists after they apologized for how they covered protests at a speech by Jeff Sessions.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/business/media/northwestern-university-newspaper.html
Editors at the campus newspaper spurred a backlash from professional journalists after they apologized for how they covered protests at a speech by Jeff Sessions.
In today’s social media–oriented political landscape, photojournalists are challenged to find truth beneath ready-made narratives and personal brands.
via Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-photojournalists-entirely-objective
The code of ethics outlined by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) instructs photojournalists to “recognize and work to avoid presenting one’s own biases in the work” and to “resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities.” But in today’s social media–oriented political landscape, where entire personalities are staged, photojournalists are challenged to find truth beneath an onslaught of ready-made narratives and personal brands.
In light of the consecutive mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, we discuss how gun violence is covered by U.S. media in terms of what we see and what we don’t see.
via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2019/08/gun-violence-visual-censorship/
To show or not to show? When does publishing photos of carnage become exploitative, gratuitous and pornographic, and when does it become critical information and a prompt for change?
We asked top editors about the decision-making process: “These are not easy images to use.”
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/reader-center/rio-grande-migrants-photo.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
We asked top editors about the decision-making process: “These are not easy images to use.”
An award-winning photojournalist stands accused of faking a series of images documenting hit men carrying out acts of violence in Honduras. It is alleged that Swiss/Italian photographer Michele Crameri staged several shots of men wielding guns and threate
via Fstoppers: https://fstoppers.com/originals/award-winning-photojournalist-accused-faking-photos-assassins-372995
An award-winning photojournalist stands accused of faking a series of images documenting hit men carrying out acts of violence in Honduras. It is alleged that Swiss/Italian photographer Michele Crameri staged several shots of men wielding guns and threatening to kill people, following revelations from the Honduran fixer who helped him gain access to local gang members.
Though it’s just a research project for the moment
via The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/14/18678782/adobe-machine-learning-ai-tool-spot-fake-facial-edits-liquify-manipulations
The world is becoming increasingly anxious about the spread of fake videos and pictures, and Adobe — a name synonymous with edited imagery — says it shares those concerns. Today, it’s sharing new research in collaboration with scientists from UC Berkeley that uses machine learning to automatically detect when images of faces have been manipulated.
The only answer to fighting deepfakes is to fight it at its root. And the technology for that already exists…
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/thoughts-about-deepfakes/
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.