Regarding the Pain of Others
BBC Correspondent Allan Little addresses the gulf between the reality of war and our ability to comprehend it from afar. He picks up on Susan Sontag's essay on war photography.
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After my podcast interview with Smita Sharma earlier this autumn, I wanted to learn more about her experience photographing “Stolen Lives: The harrowing story of two girls sold into sexual slavery” for National Geographic.
If we are going to use their picture, we must do the work that it takes to give them dignity in that process.
There is a difference between how we photograph people with a handheld camera and how we photograph people with a camera drone when it comes to accountability. Can the same regulations really govern the two?
This online event explored the photographic representation of Afghanistan, and the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, over the last twenty years. We heard from Dr Azeta Hatef, Kiana Hayeri, Alison Baskerville, and Tahmina Saleem.
This event was organised by the Photography Ethics Centre and hosted in collaboration with the Ethical Journalism Network on December 2, 2021