Benjamin Chesterton makes an interesting argument. One that questions much of the ethical tightrope that social documentary photographers straddle.
Its a slippery slope, both the practice of photographing and publishing something so horrible and the notion that we should stop. Would then the image of a dying man on a road in Georgia, Gaza, Iraq, be considered wrong?
What about Eugene Smith's image from Japan of a deformed "Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath?" Is this wrong?
At what point do we as journalists, as human beings, stop photographing? Where is the line?
The Abuse Debate
Friday, March 27, 2009 | Posted by Ben Lowy at 7:24 PM |
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