Flutterby™! : Photos, assaults and ethics 2002-04-02 19:12:33+02

Photos, assaults and ethics

2002-04-02 19:12:33+02 by Shawn 1 comments

The Seattle Times has a story about the NPPA's 2001 first place choice for Photojournalism in the Domestic News category. The award went to a picture of the crowd tearing the clothes off a woman who declined to lift her shirt at last year's Mardi Gras celebration in Seattle. The photo was never published in the paper (and in fact, I don't remember hearing about any reported sexual assaults in the news) but it's inclusion on the NPPA website (with the victim's face obscured) has sparked an ethical controversy.

Well I think it's encouraging that the Times at least ran the article over the controversy about the photo. The first step is admitting you have a problem :)

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