As a photojournalist, your ethics should always be absolute. Say if you have a picture that you really love, it has great emotion, great energy, but there's a tree that merges with the top of the main subject's head you should either post and print it the way it is, or don't print it at all.
A photo can capture truth, but to a very limited group, the people who know the whole, true, story of and about the photo. If someone takes a picture of a Zebra, but didn't really care to count the stripes while they're actually seeing all sides, how in the world will he know the right number if he only sees one side? Then, if that photo is published, the readers will be lied to in hearing that this Zebra has only the seen amount of stripes times two for the other side. What if that Zebra had one more hidden stripe? That is not the truth.
It's wrong to lie, including "keeping the whole truth to yourself." If a image is altured then that's just the same. If news papers intend to let people "know the true" they better speak the truth.
-Jasmine E. Oliveira
Friday, December 7, 2007
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