One of the things I am passionate about is photography. Photojournalism
is a branch of photography that involves the taking of pictures of current
events for news or other publications. For my extended essay I did a research
paper on a particular war photographer who captured some gruesome scenes. Which
brings me to the issue at hand, the ethical implications of publishing a photo
containing graphic images, without the permission or consent of any particular
individual involved in the image? The photographer I researched for my EE was
named Don McCullin. He is an English born war photographer who worked primarily
for the Sunday times in England. Covering a multitude of wars, you would expect
a majority of his photos contain some graphic images of soldiers and civilians.
But does McCullin have the right to publish images of dead or dying people in a
major publication in England? It can be argued that it is necessary to spread
the message that war is bad. So it’s a case of does the ends justify the means.
Therefore we have to look at the results of his publishing of these images. McCullin
was responsible for providing images during the Vietnam that helped sway the
public’s opinion on the Vietnam War. So we could justify the usage of the
graphic images.
What else could justify the use of such graphic images?
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