April 15, 22, and 29, 2025

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2024 Photo Ethics Symposium: Ethics in the Age of AI

The theme of the 2024 Photo Ethics Symposium was: Ethics in the Age of AI. This symposium took place online over 3 days, from December 4-6, 2024 with support from Getty.

There was a parallel in-person event at Queen's University Belfast on December 3 to launch our recent report, Eight Lessons from The Photo Ethics Podcast.

Online workshop: The Ethics of Picturing Tragedy and Trauma

February 26 and May 17, 2024

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Workshop and Lecture Series: Building Ethical Literacy in Your Photographic Practice

October 3, 10, and 17, 2023

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2022 Photography Ethics Symposium: On Documenting and Exhibiting Vulnerability

For the fourth annual symposia on December 2, 2022, we worked with RedEye: The Photography Network to approach the topic of vulnerability from multiple angles.

We heard from three photographers: Raphaela Rosella, Justin Carey and Sophie Harris-Taylor. The speakers’ presentations were followed by a roundtable discussion.

2021 Photography Ethics Symposium: Photographing Afghanistan

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

2020 Photography Ethics Symposium

This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we moved the symposium online. Instead of one all-day event, we hosted a mini-series of events. We heard from Smita Sharma, Laura Saunders, Melissa Bunni Elian, Martha Tadesse, Jennie Ricketts, and John Edwin Mason.

These sessions were organised by the Photography Ethics Centre, and moderated by Savannah Dodd. This event was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists.

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2020 Photography Ethics Symposium: On objectivity, truth, and lies

This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we moved the symposium online. Instead of one all-day event, we hosted a mini-series of events.

Our third panel panel took place on December 3. We heard from Jennie Ricketts and John Edwin Mason on objectivity, truth, and lies.

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2020 Photography Ethics Symposium: On representation, identity, and intersectional storytelling

This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we moved the symposium online. Instead of one all-day event, we hosted a mini-series of events.

Our second panel took place on November 5. We heard from Melissa Bunni Elian and Martha Tadesse on representation, identity, and intersectional storytelling.

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2020 Photography Ethics Symposium: On gender, power, and documenting vulnerability

This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we moved the symposium online. Instead of one all-day event, we hosted a mini-series of events.

At first our panel event on October 1, 2020, we heard from Smita Sharma and Laura Saunders on gender, power, and documenting vulnerability.

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Book Release: Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods

October 22, 2020

2019 Photography Ethics Symposium: Working with People

This was the first edition of the Photography Ethics Symposium. It took place at The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol on December 4, 2019. We heard from Anthony Luvera, Jess Crombie, Emma Chetcuti, and Franklyn Rodgers about the ethics of working with people. Conversations were moderated by Savannah Dodd.