Socially aware/conciousness.
Open mindedness.
They follow ethical guidelines.
Is there always two sides to a story?
In the case of genocide, there is only one.
Honesty through photographs.
Capturing truth.
Observer of the human condition.
Representation of truth must be truthful.
When we consider these things above we go through stages of sympathy, anger, regret, faith, most likely anger again and then hope, that there is someone out there in those parts of the world that wants to fix the world as much as you do. When you stop and take time to look at this image below it is hard to imagine a totally healthy photographer just standing there in amongst all this famine and disease just easily taking pictures. This is one of the big themes in ethics of photography. When is it taking pictures too far? If you were in those children's shoes, would you like to photographed? If you even knew what a photograph was. Imagine not even knowing about the wonders of photography and to understand that your face will be shown to millions of people around the world.
In africa, according to the studies from the UN, someone will die every 5 seconds from starvation. These children, much like the indigenous photographs that are found in the national library, are faces but no names. Because of that rapid rate of death in africa, these children are most likely not alive anymore.
(this image was taken from: http://momiqazi.wordpress.com/)
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - APRIL 8: Blood is seen as Iraqi women cry for their relatives killed in an alleged U.S air strike on April 8, 2008 in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq.
(this image was taken from: http://www.life.com/image/80560156)
Good point, Genevieve. Can you find an example in a magazine or newspaper that might address some of these?
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