Recently, I have read about some heartless photographers competing in a photographic competition: one who brought down a nest with chicks from a tree for photo sessions and left them to die, and another who used glue on a bird to prevent it from flying off.
Whenever we watch on television, scenes of fighting in progress or injured victims of accidents needing medical attention, we cannot help thinking why the photographer in each case did not help instead of continuing with his camera rolling.
From The Sun:
The power of creative licence by Natalie Shobana Ambrose
'A WHILE back the New York Post landed itself in hot soup for publishing a disturbing photo on its front page with the words "DOOMED" followed by "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die".
That is exactly what it was, a photo taken seconds before a man was hit by a subway train after being thrown on the tracks at New York City's Times Square station.
It raised a similar ethical debate as Kevin Carter's haunting Pulitzer prize photo of a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a hooded vulture.
A multifaceted ethical debate looms when such photos are published. Do you capture an event, make money of it and become famous through someone else's pain when there is an opportunity to save a life (or at least to attempt to save a life). Or is non-intervention part of the job and do all photos taken have to be published?...'
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http://www.thesundaily.my/node/221505
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Whenever we watch on television, scenes of fighting in progress or injured victims of accidents needing medical attention, we cannot help thinking why the photographer in each case did not help instead of continuing with his camera rolling.
From The Sun:
The power of creative licence by Natalie Shobana Ambrose
'A WHILE back the New York Post landed itself in hot soup for publishing a disturbing photo on its front page with the words "DOOMED" followed by "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die".
That is exactly what it was, a photo taken seconds before a man was hit by a subway train after being thrown on the tracks at New York City's Times Square station.
It raised a similar ethical debate as Kevin Carter's haunting Pulitzer prize photo of a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a hooded vulture.
A multifaceted ethical debate looms when such photos are published. Do you capture an event, make money of it and become famous through someone else's pain when there is an opportunity to save a life (or at least to attempt to save a life). Or is non-intervention part of the job and do all photos taken have to be published?...'
More:
http://www.thesundaily.my/node/221505
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