What are Photography Ethics?
Photography ethics are the principles that guide how we take and share photographs. Photography ethics are subjective, contextual, and fluid, meaning that every person’s ethics will be different, because ethics are based on a person’s life experience and values.
What is a Paparazzi?
Paparazzi are the freelance photographers who pursues celebrities and attempts to capture their candid moments.
An example of paparazzi photographers would be definitely the people who were chasing Princess Diana when she was killed in a car accident in France in 1997.
Name a celebrity that has sued the paparazzi for invasion of privacy
I have chosen Prince William & Kate Middleton.
In 2012, a French magazine company published photos of Kate Middleton without her top on, as a result they had to pay a fine of €2,000.
4 years later they filed a lawsuit against the two suspected photographers from the company, as well as the editor of the magazine and chief executive of its parent company and had to pay another fine of €1.5 million in damages.
What is your opinion on the picture of "The vulture and the little girl"?
I think that is disrespectful to take a picture of someone dying instead they should have helped her, and I know it won an award, but it's just horrifying.
It was taken in 1993 by Kevin Carter during his trip to Sudan near the village of Ayod.
Carter later shooed the vulture off after taking the picture hundreds of people contacted the New York Times to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper company to run a special editor’s note saying, "The girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture."
In 1994, he won an award for that photo and on that same year he committed suicide due to depression.
In my opinion, he should have helped that girl instead of taking a picture of her as she was defenseless, and her parents were busy taking food from a plane from the United Nations.
What is your opinion on the picture of "Vietnam War's Napalm Girl"?
I think it is unnecessary to have a naked girl in a photo because it is just wrong to do that to this girl.
Her name is Phan Thi Kim Phúc, but to many people, she's known as the Napalm Girl. She was only 9 years old when that photograph was taken by The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut (As of 2022 he is 71 years old), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. That photo exposed the horrors of the Vietnam War to the world. It also left Kim Phúc bitter and full of hatred. Later, she picked up the Bible and converted to Christianity.
She lives in Toronto with her family and is a doctor.
In my opinion, the photographer was okay to take a picture to document the Vietnam War as people can understand how much pain those children were in.
What is the job of a Photojournalist?
A photojournalist is someone who photographs, edits, and displays images in order to tell a visual story.
As a photojournalist your aim will be to capture the best images to document an event, tell a story or convey a message and support the printed word.
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