Journalist Ethics

mickyates ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Ethics, FinalMajorProject, FMPWeek4, Ideas, Journalism, Photography 4 Comments

The photograph in the header shows Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 26, and his 23 month old daughter Valeria, lying face down in shallow water on the Mexican border. Valeria has her arm draped around Óscar’s neck. The news reports say that he had crossed with his daughter, then went back to get his wife. Sadly Valeria went after him, and in …

Responses & Responsibilities

mickyates Aftermath, ContextualResearch, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Dark Tourism, Documentary, Ethics, Genocide, ICWeek8, Ideas, Informing Contexts, Journalism, Philosophy, Photography, Rephotography 2 Comments

James Elkins, in What Photography Is (2011), analyses photographs from 1905 of Lingqi, the Chinese ‘death by a thousand cuts’. (chapter 6, pg 177-220). I will not post the images here. Perhaps in that I am guilty of the kind of censorship that Tori Rose Deghett describes, but I think that is an editorial decision, not a political decision, which …