Mar 30, 2011

Photojournalism



It's a common code of photojournalism not to intervene in the events. They try to change the world with words and pictures - not actions. In some situations this can be deemed immoral and unethical. Relevantly, here's some info on a 1994 Pulitzer winning photo of a Sudanese starving child by Kevin Carter: Kevin killed himself by suicide not long afterward. No one knows what happened to the child.

All of it reminds me of this Banksy print:

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