Ethics in Photojournalism


Ethics 

In this diagram above I express large feelings towards honesty, trustworthy,and respect. These three ethics reveal my true expression towards my most worthy values. Honesty should play a large role in anyone's lives, more importantly how honesty is involved in the relationships you have with people. Being able to care enough about another and allowing them to trust you with specific things is important in human interaction. Knowing that you would be viewed as a person who can be trusted and be able to justify everything that comes with it. In any ethics conversation a value of being able to be respected is important in life.
Kevin Carter 1993 Sudan 
This photo questioned the ethics of the photographer. Understanding that this small malnouirshed girl could become a meal for a wild animal, should in no way, be presented as work of art by another human. The photo provides the heartache and sadness in what could be this young girls future just by glance of the photograph. The act of taking this photo is inhumane in the idea that instead of saving the girl, he decided to capture what could be her last moments on thsi earth. This shot caused Kevin Carter to feel guilty of not being able to help the child because of the climate she was already in. Some photojournalistic pictures seem to be to involved with what could seem unright for taking. 
John Tlumacki/Boston Globe
In the photo above it is explained that photojournalism and photojournalist comes to a point in the challenges of life, some things cannot be documented. Due to the situation this photojournalist thought it would be a better idea to capture a quick shot of an older gentlemen on the ground during the bombings. Instead moral reasoning would be to help the elderly man up and to safety after the traumatic event he has been involved in. Situations like this provide only one reason of doubt, either help others around you or capture a photograph of the suffering. This is the point where photojournalist have to be able to decifer what is more important, capturing a picture or helping another person who is in need.
 
With the morals I have presented in my ethics map, they would force me to help these people instead of being a bystander and taking a photo of their suffering. Giving up on someone's chances of continuing life or not is not-negotiable and wouldn't reason out enough for a photo to be taken. In the long run, photojournalists have a job of capturing a shot that stuns their viewers, that is all acceptable if the positive outlook doesn't change someones life for the worst. 

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