Photojournalism Ethics

Photojournalists should be situational, because there are too many cases that come up to have one general rule for all of them.

A photo can really capture truth if it captures the emotion of what's going on in the photo and is not manipulated in a way that changes its reality.

As a photographer, I don't think that I have done anything that changes reality, because I don't feel that changing levels and cropping "edits" reality.

If news organizations do not define their ethical standards, readers will not be able to depend on them for real news.

Dove Evolution of Beauty

Changes to model's face:

• Made her neck longer and thinner
• Made her lips fuller
• Made her forehead smaller
• Made her eyes and eyebrows bigger
• Added more hair
• Made her cheek-bones more contoured

I do not think it is ethically okay to manipulate a photo like this, because it makes somebody a different person, instead of just enhancing them unlike with just make-up and hair that is done well.

It is worse than when something like the Oprah photo, which is outrageously unreal.

Changes with make-up and hair are okay, because they enhance a person, but anything done digitally like in that video is not ok.

The difference between fashion photography and photojournalism is that fashion photography is to sell a product and photojournalism is to tell a story. Both unfortunately change reality, but it is more serious with photojournalism because that is changing a story that may be very important, rather than just changing someones appearance.