Category: Ethics

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If you take a photograph of someone and that person confronts you about it, how do you react? The most common response from photographers appears to be that provided you’re in a public space you can take any picture you want. That’s true, at least in a legal sense. But it does not really address the issue at hand at all: If someone does not want their photograph taken do you, as a photographer, just go ahead and do so anyway, because you can? I actually do not think that’s such a good idea

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Bert Heyman wanted the photos of his son Chris Heyman’s 2004 gun death to have an impact on the national debate over gun laws. “He wants every part of his son’s case to matter,” Huffington Post reporter Jason Cherkis told Poynter in a phone call. “It’s almost like organ donation in a way.”

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Sensitive, thoughtful media coverage can be a powerful tool for justice and understanding, a catalyst for policies that help prevent wrongs from being repeated. But sensationalist, reactionary reporting sometimes paves the road to laws or regulations that may not be helpful to children, families or communities.

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This situation clearly illustrates the importance of showing restraint in any forensic image analysis. When applying any forensic test, it is critically important that you be mindful of exactly what that test can reveal, and not draw any broader conclusions

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Is the demise of a staff of photojournalists an ethical issue? Usually we deal with lying and the other aspects of our Code of Ethics, but we all felt (very deeply) that this is probably one of the most basic ethical issues we face today. It is the ethics of survival; the survival of our profession and the survival of our American way of life itself in that a free society cannot exist without access to accurate information

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They were credited to Don Andres. NBC News interviewed someone with the same name and identified him as a legislative aide to U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada.

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Last week, Balkanist magazine published an account by a young presumably-British journalist’s of her sexual assault by a colleague on the night of her arrival in Kyiv, Ukraine, to cover the political situation there. The piece is well worth a read, raising important points about what women face working in the male-dominated field of conflict journalism.

Jim Romenesko

via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/10/26/candidates-agree-to-stop-using-altered-denver-post-photo-after-being-warned/

Why does real photography matter? – Kaptur

The impact of selfies and computational photography on professional photography today.

via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/why-does-real-photography-matter/

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