Wednesday, 14 October 2009

3. Photo Journailism

In my opinion, photo journalism has key role to tell public they should take action. Photos are very effective, people understand importance of the situation better than reading a text. It must be hard to be war or disaster photographer, because you capture the reality of situation. It is not like reading newspaper. They saw and live the terrible situation, but it is not ethic to win a prize with a photo like this. It may be encouriging but you become famous over people, who are in an awful situation.
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  1. Sonja Tack15 October 2009 at 09:00

    You make some interesting observations here, Ali. A question that comes to my mind: Do photographers ask to win prizes? Doesn't someone else decide this? So how then can it be unethical to win a prize? Are you saying perhaps there should be no awards for press photography?

    A couple of small language points: 'It *must* be hard...", not 'should'; 'terrible' instead of 'terrific'.

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  2. Ali Gösterişli15 October 2009 at 11:13

    to be nominated not their decision, but to accept prize?

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  3. Sonja Tack15 October 2009 at 17:14

    ahh, you mean in the way Obama accepted his Nobel Prize... :))

    So in other words, you are saying it would be more ethical for photographers to refuse awards for their work. That's an interesting point. But then how would the photo continue to reach a mass audience? Can awards contribute to the awareness-raising that a photo promotes?

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  4. Ali Gösterişli16 October 2009 at 00:45

    I think a photographer, who refuse a prize will be on news and people now about him/her and his/her photo.

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  5. Sonja Tack18 October 2009 at 16:29

    That's probably true, so the photo will get publicity no matter what the circumstances.

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