Posted: July 1st, 2010 | Author: Wade | Filed under: Ethics, Inspiration | Tags: Photos 1440, World Press Photo | No Comments »
Today we’re finishing the hanging of prints for a month-long exhibition of the Herald’s best photography from throughout the past year. Called Photos 1440, it’s one of four exhibitions that are part of Canon’s EOS Festival of Photography, and we’re quite thrilled that it’s going to be conducted alongside the Sydney leg of the World Press Photo exhibition world-tour.
With Photos 1440 and the Word Press Photo exhibitions occurring simultaneously in opposite wings of the State Library of New South Wales, the contrast between their respective works is all the more clear and it begs the question: why must World Press Photo be so bloody upsetting all of the time? It’s generally very worthy subject-matter I concede, but surely there’s more of that to be found than is for the most part confined to conflicts and generic misfortune, year after year after year?
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Posted: March 11th, 2010 | Author: Wade | Filed under: Ethics, General | Tags: Ethics, Law, Manipulation, World Press Photo | 4 Comments »
World Press Photo announced recently that photographer Stepan Rudik, who received third prize in the Sport Feature Stories category of the competition, had his award revoked for excessive digital manipulation. Organisers compared one of Rudik’s winning submissions to its RAW file following a complaint from the Ukrainian Photography Union, and he was ultimately disqualified for excising part of a foot and its owner from one of his pictures (compare them here).
While the competition rules are simple enough, and Rudik himself accepts the decision, some dissent evidently exists. The essence of the counter-arguement is a debate over how journalism and artistic license should co-exist; that the final work is the product of the artist’s vision.
But we are of course talking about visual journalism here, not art photography so while it might make for an engrossing debating subject for some, this sort of subversion of the truth simply never flies in professional circles and is the sort of act that has cost its perpetrators their jobs time and time again.
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