Ethics- documentary photography

I found this post about Ethical limits in documentary photography this is a great example on ethics when it come to documentary photography. it talks about Kevin Carters “Struggling Girl” as you can see it shows a very young starved child struggling with a vulture watch her. the post mentions the respons to the photograph being in the new york time and how the they could only say that the child was able to have the strengh to move not a respons that I would want to hear to be honest I would want to help the child.

http://paulagortazar.blogspot.co.uk/p/ethical-limits-in-documentary.html

Ethics of a Photojounalsit

Photographer's dilemma

Images of people in distress appear often in newspapers, on television and online. Many show ordinary people struggling against powerful, even life-threatening, forces. How do they happen? What choices did the photographer make in order to bring such dramatic images to the world's attention?

A photojournalist who had doubts for the first time in his professional life told the British Red Cross about his hard decisions. Follow his story as he explains how he knew he couldn't help – and had to think about whether to take pictures.

I found this articular on the red cross website it is a lesson plane but I found it to be interesting as I have always worried about what I would do if I was in a situation like this I don't think I could just stand their taking photos I would try to help to the best of my ability.

Here is an extract from the code of ethics of the US-based National Press Photographers Association.

Treat all subjects with respect and dignity. Give special consideration to vulnerable subjects and compassion to victims of crime or tragedy. Intrude on private moments of grief only when the public has an overriding and justifiable need to see.

http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Teaching-resources/Lesson-plans/Photographers-dilemma

ethics

Rights and Responsibilities

what is ethics?

whats right 

whats wrong

1. Normative ethics is the study of ethical action. It is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act, morally speaking.
2. 1. Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral,metaethics focuses on what morality itself is.
   2. 1. Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality.
      2. The ethics of a photojournalist- Does a photojournalist intervene in  the situation they photograph.yes a photojournalist intervenes changes the situation. do you force a scene to get a photo.
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Paul Herman photographer and director of Red Eye

Paul Herman was a guest lecturer today talking to us about how we can get our work out in to the world. our career development.

First we talked about the upcoming events that are being held and the festivals that we should go to to get an idea of were we would want to be. 

Our career development

Aspiring photographer
Professional
The great photographer


Professional Basics- what people do well on
Getting you shit together
Respond promptly
Listen carefully to what the clients needs and expects
Respond thoughtfully and creatively to brief
Time keeping
Are presentable and polite
Deliver on time
Deliver consistently good work, exceeding expectations
Are aware of who is doing what in photography and where you fit in
 Are continually progressive
Keep good notes and records
Hone your skills
A stand out, compelling body of work

The Great Photography
The interest, knowledge and research the photo world
Marketing and talking and writing
A strong voice or style- develop a ssignature
Personality- building relationships with clients and buyers
Pong term commitment and motivation
Craft and ideas- work that gets recognized 
Degree show -BIG MARKETING

PDP amended

Areas of Idustry

Avenues of work feedback workshop – students should prepare for this session by thoroughly researching as many possible avenues of work for graduates of photography. Students should also focus upon areas of employment that particularly interests them. Try to gain an understanding of what skill sets you need to access that area. 

Avenues of photographic work I am interested:

Documentary

photojournalism

Think of the areas of industry you want to work in and what type of employers their:

Magazines-National Geographic

News papers

Websites

Charity organization

What to expect if you were an employer:

Confidence

Passion

Put yourself out into the world

Organized

People skills

Confidence with software

 Turn over

Getting own work into the world

Have work life and social life separate

Web sites:

Graduate photography
http://www.source.ie/index.php
Can put your own work on for review.

Free range photography
http://www.free-range.org.uk/

WPO-world photography organization
http://www.worldphoto.org/

Paul Hill

Paul Hill did a lecture on the 5th November 2014 

It was quite an interesting lecture as I only briefly looked at him before the lecture and I thought his work was very interesting as he goes from journalism to photographing landscapes to using his phone to photograph his life.

The troops enter Belfast, northern Ireland, August 1969

This photo was recently in The Gordian 22 October 2014 it features Paul Hill talking about the photo and how the man is yelling at the troops " what the hell is going on hear" he court the man as he was raising his arm. the man had gone in to the pub for a drink only to leave and see that the troops had arrived