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Stranger With A Camera: Ethics in Photojournalism
When Ison pulled the trigger, he seems to kill all those who had come before and warns all those who would come after. He doesn’t know O’Connor, nor does he care to know him. He is attempting to take back, for himself and his community, his cultural image. Ironically, he exacerbates that image by turning his gun on an innocent outsider, perpetuating and expanding that image. Barret goes a long way towards bridging the divide between the insider and the outsider, as she plays both at once. But, in the end, she acknowledges that we are all outsiders, and she raises more questions than she answers about the moral rights of a subject and the responsibilities of a storyteller.
I had more interesting subjects, but not many in paper form.
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