2024 Photo Ethics Symposium: Ethics in the Age of AI

December 3-6, 2024

Photo Futures Symposium

Photo Museum Ireland hosted this event which consisted of three panels, discussing EDI, AI, and sustainability.

The Role of the Photographer in the Age of AI: Possible Paths Forward

Savannah Dodd takes stock of the challenges and opportunities for ethical photographic practice that the growth of generative AI technologies presents.

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Photographing Afghanistan: A panel discussion exploring 20 years of photography and ethics

December 2, 2021

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 ups on Susan Sontag's essay on war photography.

The Ethics of Documenting Your Own Family

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.

Ethics of Documentary Photography

AmberSide hosted this panel with Sarah Waiswa, Liz Hingley, and Savannah Dodd. This was the second in their series of talks about the ethics of image making.

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Edward Curtis and "The North American Indian": An Exploration of Truth and Objectivity

Theodore Roosevelt remarked that Curtis’ work was ‘has far more than mere accuracy, because it is truthful.’ But can truth be beyond accuracy? How far can we trust the objectivity of the photographer?

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Photography Ethics Symposium: On objectivity, truth, and lies

December 3, 2020

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Interview with Smita Sharma on “Stolen Lives”

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.

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

November 5, 2020

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Introducing: The Photo Ethics Podcast

This new podcast series is all about the ethics of photography. Through weekly conversations with accomplished photographers, we will cover topics like consent, dignity, power, responsibility, impact, and collaboration, among many others.

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Book Release: Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods

October 22, 2020

Coronavirus and shooting the right story

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?

The Impact of the White, Male Gaze

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.

First Edition of the Photography Ethics Symposium

December 4, 2019

Field notes on Othering: A critique of Soham Gupta’s photobook ‘Angst’

A look at Soham Gupta’s Angst as a symptom of a larger ongoing system of questionable practices of representation.