Resources
Some recommended resources on visual media ethics from other authors and organisations.
Books
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Handbooks and Guides
The Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography by Authority Collective
A Guide to Nonviolent Language for Lens-Based Work by Diversify Photo
For Us, By US: A Personal Safety Guide by ROAAAR and Multistory
Risk Assessment Guide by Fairpicture
The Dignified Storytelling Handbook by Dignified Storytelling
Articles
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“Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by Fred Ritchin for PhotoVogue
“How AI raises new as well as age-old questions about 'documentary' photography” for D&AD
“How AI reduces the world to stereotypes” by Victoria Turk for Rest of the World
“Don’t compromise your ethics when telling stories in VR” b Zahra Rasool for journalism360
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“Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color” by Tara Pixley for Nieman Reports
“The Ethics of Seeing” by Neeta Satam for Re-Picture
”Do No Harm: Photographing Police Brutality Protests” by Authority Collective
”Decolonizing the Language of Photography” by Jessica Czarnecki for Photographers without Borders
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“Children are Not Props: Consent in the Global South” by Anne Nwakalor for Fairpicture
“Through a Glass Darkly” by Robert Godden in Witness by World Press Photo
”Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths” by Tara Pixley for Nieman Reports
“‘As a recovering addict, I know those pictures live forever’” by Graham MacIndoe in Nieman Reports
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Reports
On visual media in international development and aid
On the media industry
Films, Videos, and Podcasts
“The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for TED
The Messy Truth Podcast interview with Dr Jennifer Good
Speaker series on Development and Photography Ethics by REACH
“Racial representation in communications and fundraising” panel discussion by Bond
Subject by Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall
Stop Filming Us by Joris Postema and Stop Filming Us and Listen by Bernadette Vivuya, Kagoma Ya Twahirwa