March 4, 2015 World Press Photo Rescinds Troilo Award In a statement moments ago, World Press Photo has revoked the first place award in the contemporary issues category given to Giovanni Troilo. Categories Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
March 4, 2015 Visa Pour L’Image Decides Not to Show World Press Photo Winners Jean Francois Leroy has the World Press Photo competition winners will not be shown at Visa Pour L’Image at Perpignan this year. The photojournalists we want to represent do not call upon their cousins to fornicate in a car. The photojournalists we want to put forward do not add a flash in a humvee in order to bring to light... Categories Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
March 4, 2015 World Press Photo Controversy Continues As if there hadn’t been enough of an issue with this year’s World Press Photo competition with the disqualification of 20% of the finalists, then the questions of staging of an image and the bungled defense of upholding the award, now there are questions about whether one of Giovanni Troilo’s images was shot in the city he claims to have... Categories Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 2, 2015 World Press Photo Statement Clarification It has been an interesting 24 hours online, hasn’t it? After Sunday’s announcement that World Press Photo was upholding an award for a photo essay that many felt crossed ethical lines, they were taken to task by myself and many others for this line: The contest requires photojournalists do not stage pictures to show something that would otherwise have not... Categories Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 1, 2015 World Press Photo Upholds Troilo Award After an investigation into ethical concerns surrounding Giovanni Troilo’s first place award in the World Press Photo Contemporary Issue-Story category, the organization has decided to uphold the award. Massive Editorial Statement: World Press Photo, you got this totally wrong. How so? From their statement, here’s their justification: World Press Photo is a contest for photojournalism and documentary photography, established to... Categories Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
February 25, 2015 Contest Reality Distortion Field Over at Time’s Lightbox, Olivier Laurent is reporting that World Press Photo has received a letter from the mayor of Charleroi, Belgium, claiming that a set of images that won an award this year are “profoundly dishonest.” This is getting out of hand. The mayor’s letter goes on to analyze (Giovanni) Troilo’s photographs and captions, including one that purports to... Categories Business & Industry/Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
February 12, 2015 Bravo, World Press Photo – Now, Tell Us Who the Liars Are Nearly one out of five images that made it to the final rounds of the the World Press Photo competition were lies. ONE OUT OF FIVE. I applaud what Lars Boering is doing and how World Press Photo is now requiring the original, untouched images from entrants that make it to a certain level in the competition for comparisons sake.... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
December 11, 2014 I Should Have Run … In July of 1985, photojournalist John Harte made an image that is still discussed in photojournalism ethics classes of a family identifying a drowned boy’s body. It turns out, that wasn’t the only controversial image he made that day – his editors spiked a photo from a bikini contest at the same park due to concerns over how many phone... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
December 10, 2014 Is Livestreaming Journalism? It may seem like a strange question, but New York Magazine has a piece up that asks if livestreaming is the future of journalism or activism. I don’t have an answer, but I have some thoughts on this. And my thought is … no. Livestreaming is not journalism. Perhaps it is news reporting, but I don’t think it is journalism.... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
November 13, 2014 In Search of a Processing Boundary Scott Alexander at American Photo has a post up on how far is too far when it comes to processing images, including a set of before-and-after images to study. The images, at the top of the page, are … startling. The toning on two of them is, to me, completely reasonable. The other two … well … what do you... Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory