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The Photography Ethics Centre was founded by Savannah Dodd in 2017, and is supported by an international team of advisors. This social enterprise organisation is based in Northern Ireland, but operates globally. Our aim is to raise awareness about the ethics of taking and sharing photographs. We do this by producing educational programmes and materials, including workshops, guest lectures, online courses, podcasts, and articles - all about the ethics of photography.
Press Contact
Contact Savannah Dodd for press inquiries via email at savannah@photoethics.org or by phone at +44 (0) 7561 151 494
Savannah Dodd, PhD / Founder and Director
Savannah is an anthropologist and photographer with an expertise in visual media ethics. Savannah is a member of the Ethical Journalism Network’s UK Committee and of the board of Source Magazine. She sat on the inaugural ethics committee of the Environmental Photographer of the Year award. She currently holds a Practitioner’s Appointment at the Centre for Creative Ethnography at Queen’s University Belfast.
Watch Savannah’s TEDxTalk “Changing the world with visual media ethics”
Learn more about Savannah and the team on the “About Us” page.
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Debate is growing about ethics as concerns are raised about photographic practices across all kinds of industries, especially in light of the rise of AI-generated imagery.
Savannah Dodd takes stock of the challenges and opportunities for ethical photographic practice that the growth of generative AI technologies presents.
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.
There is a difference between how we photograph people with a handheld camera and how we photograph people with a camera drone when it comes to accountability. Can the same regulations really govern the two?
The issue of consent is key across the photographic community. But development photography, in particular, presents a unique set of challenges because of the complexity of the subject/photographer relationship.