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Savannah Dodd takes stock of the challenges and opportunities for ethical photographic practice that the growth of generative AI technologies presents. She focuses on articulating an ethical imperative for photographers, considers how to ethically make work with others using generative AI, and problematises the speed of AI in a culture of productivity in which visual artists necessarily operate.

A reflection about dignity in dementia care and in photography of ill health. This essay was commissioned by The Lancet and based on Savannah Dodd’s project Thanks, Gd.

While turning the camera inward may alleviate ethical qualms about positionality, photographing the people closest to us is not without ethical considerations. Seven photographers discuss the ethics of working on stories close to home.

Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic so far, there have been many questions raised about what it means to visually represent a public health crisis ethically: What kinds of visual stories do we need?

In their second collaboration, Andrew Jackson and Savannah Dodd discuss the impact of the prioritisation of the white, male gaze, both for photojournalism and broader society.

Last year, Photography Ethics Centre founder Savannah Dodd delivered a workshop for community youth workers at Greater Shankill Alternatives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, funded by the Rebecca Vassie Trust.

It is the broader socio-cultural context that shapes how we learn to value different ways of seeing. And it consistently puts white, male ways of seeing right at the top.