Category: Ethics & Legal

Over at BagNews Notes, Michael Shaw looks into the take-down of a New York Times Lens blog post that raises all sorts of questions. There are some disturbing ethical questions raised in there, not the least of which is how well did the Times fact check this story or when they used the images in the International Herald Tribune last...

This is mostly fun, now … but sixty years ago, if I had the same ethical standards I do now, I’d be pretty frightened by this book on how to retouch photos that Michael Zhang has written about at PetaPixel. I will grant that most of the photos in the book are commercial or corporate images and not what we...

The World Press Photo competition has submitted the files of Paul Hansen’s winning image to a forensic expert and have declared the image to be okay. “We have reviewed the RAW image, as supplied by World Press Photo, and the resulting published JPEG image. It is clear that the published photo was retouched with respect to both global and local...

This has almost nothing to do with the war, but … the U.S. Army’s deputy commander of the Public Affair’s Office wants to get soldiers to stop “photobombing” images because of the cost – roughly $125. Annually. Of course, the real cost is to the seriousness and importance of these images, but to put a price on it seems a...