Introduction
Field officers doubling as amateur photographers face a variety of challenges in maintaining an ethical stance toward photo subjects: lack of awareness and guidance on legal, editorial, and ethical issues; language and literacy barriers; and time and resource constraints.
Whether organizations rely on program staff or professional photographers to obtain editorial photographs for educational materials, we encourage them to develop guidelines for photography and photo use. Amateur and professional photographers alike, as well as editors and publication designers, have a responsibility to consider country laws governing photography practices, editorial principles, and ethical issues in development photography.
Laws
Stringent regulations regarding patient privacy in the U.S. prohibit the use of images of actual clients without authorization and compliance, with very strict privacy protections. However, a full examination of various country laws is beyond the scope of this website. Please keep in mind that the information Photoshare provides on development photography ethics does not constitute legal advice. Development teams working overseas may wish to investigate country laws related to photography, privacy rights, and publishing.
Editorial Principles.
Unlike commercial photography, which is usually obtained for promotional purposes through contracts with professional photographers and stock agencies, editorial photography calls for a journalistic approach to taking and using photos. In other words, editorial photography is intended for objective, accurate representation or illustration of a real situation, subject, or physical location.
As a note, the Photoshare collection falls under the category of editorial photography. Photoshare images are available strictly for non-profit, educational use promoting international health and development, under the principles of editorial photography. They may be used to visually portray the people, stories, and issues referred to in Photoshare captions. Above all, we expect Photoshare users to respect human photo subjects and take into consideration whether photo subjects may experience negative consequences of having their photo used. The value and importance of using a photograph should always be weighed against regard for the photographic subjects' reputation, privacy, and integrity.
( All of this information have been taken from this website: http://www.photoshare.org/resources/development-photography-ethics )
As we have to follow this rules, I have designed a " Model release form" which allows the models to read about the rules, their rules and the purposes of those photos. After they have agreed with the statement, they have to fill some information about them and sigh in the end. There is an example of one of them:
No comments:
Post a Comment