Images of suffering can bring about change – but are they ethical?
- Written by Alison Dundes Renteln, Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy and Law, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
How can photographers be more sensitive towards their subjects?Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), CC BY
In a series of provocative photographs, poor children in India were made to pose in front of fancy tables covered with fake food. A prize-winning Italian photographer, Alessio Mamo, took these pictures in 2011, as part of a project called “Dr...
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