This story’s a bit old, but it’s the first I’ve encountered it. Ron Haeberle, US Army photographer during the Vietnam War, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2009 that he took photos of soldiers in the act of killing during the My Lai massacre but destroyed the negatives.
Category: Ethics
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LAT decides against running photo of man accused of beating Giants fan
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html
I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many people don’t read TOS agreements and twitpic doesn’t really advertise or clearly disclose that they can screw you over and steal your rights.
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The Most Beautiful Girl They’ve Seen Or The Embedded Photojournalist Gets Picked Up!
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html
I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many people don’t read TOS agreements and twitpic doesn’t really advertise or clearly disclose that they can screw you over and steal your rights.
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WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Diplomatic Cables Appears Online
Unlike the cables that WikiLeaks has been publishing piecemeal since last fall, these cables are raw and unredacted, and contain the names of informants and suspected intelligence agents that were blacked out of the official releases. Der Freitag said the documents include the names of suspected agents in Israel, Jordan, Iran and Afghanistan, and noted that interested parties – such as the Iranian government or intelligence agencies – could have already discovered and decrypted the file to uncover the names of informants.
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Cincy Enquirer apologizes for photo with F-word
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/04/17/cincy-enquirer-apologizes-for-photo-with-f-word/
Presses were stopped at Cincinnati Enquirer over the weekend after someone spotted “F*ck” in a photo. Thousands of Sunday papers were tossed out and the photo was changed for the new run.
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Shooting victim’s brother criticizes media for ‘horrific journalism’
The horrific journalism that’s going on surrounding my brother — and the scalding headlines and the pictures that were in the New York Post and The New York Times that my family had to see and endure, to see those pictures that were the most horrific pictures. They gave Osama bin Laden more respect and dignity than my brother, sprawled out over the — with blood coming from him. So I would just make a plea to everyone who’s out there that are reading these stories. There’s a family behind, grieving and dying for one of their own right now and we need all your support.
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James Nachtwey and 9/11 seen in 2001 and in 2011
Maybe what we are seeing here is not just some digital post-processing completely out of control, but also the result of seeing almost each and every event on the big screen, re-imagined in some Hollywood form: Our thought of “It almost did not look real” is turned into a reality: It literally does not look real any longer.
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Photographer: ‘All I can hear is that man’s head against that train: Boom! Boom! Boom!’
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/12/05/photographer-all-i-can-hear-is-that-mans-head-against-that-train-boom-boom-boom/
The photographer who shot the subway horror photo that appeared on yesterday’s New York Post cover says he’s “surprised at the anger over the pictures, of the people who are saying: Why didn’t he put the camera down and pull him out?”
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Ethics Matters » Subway photo
First, I cannot look into the heart of another man and judge him. If the photographer thought in the panic of the moment that flashing his strobe would alert the train driver, so be it. I do not know how far he was from the victim or how fast the train was going or if he could have pulled the man up or any details about the event. I cannot and will not pass judgment on another man’s motives.