Category: Ethics

Azu Nwagbogu, the founder of the Lagos Photo Festival, is guided by a simple credo: He wants to exhibit everybody. Yes, that’s a big goal. But it’s an even bigger continent with a breathtaking range of people, stories and photographers who have been inspired by it.

As the technology we use to make images changes, the way we make, use, interpret, and value images changes. What’s “real” today may not be “real” tomorrow; the debate over what’s “real photography” is less interesting when comparing today to the past, but more interesting when we try to define what “real” means today. And that’s why photographers have to pay attention to culture, technology, and yes, even selfies

This strikes me as a human resources problem being misunderstood as a technical problem

I’m purely speculating, but perhaps we’re at or getting close to the time when news organizations will be able to protect themselves by analyzing image files to make sure nothing in them has been faked

While RAW images provide far more latitude for post-process manipulation, those edits are also harder to disguise. Edits to JPEG images, however, are easier to mask and most pro cameras have JPEG profiles which can boost contrast and saturation without ever needing post process manipulation–which was one of the reasons World Press Photo changed its submission rules in 2015 to require only RAW image submissions for most categories