David Bracho Photojournalism
What would the world be like if all we had were a bunch of newspapers with stories that included only words? Wouldn't that be less appealing, less encouraging for people to read? This is where photojournalism plays an important role, photographs are included in newspapers and magazines so that it can tell stories and make everything believeable or seem accurate. Photojournalism is a form of journalism where people (edit, collect and present material for broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. In some cases a photo can tell a story just by looking at it, but adding a story to a photographs makes it alot more interesting.
There are rules that photojournalist should follow, they must tell it as it is and must not change or alter the story of photographs. They must not mislead the audience in any way or edit the photographs in a negative way that would totally change the story. From where I stand I think that the rules are there for a reason, if there were no rules photojournalist would be able to do what they want with the photographs and the stories.
Basically the ethics of taking journalistic photos and ethics of writing a story are the same, there are rules and guidelines that are to be followed. All photojournalists have to respect the images and tell the truth of the photographs. Altering press photographs can result in both positive and negative effects in terms of ethics of photo journalistic. Nothing is wrong in altering a photograph to improve the quality as long as the audience can still see the story behind the photograph. By editing a picture, people may view it differently and it may be wise to keep the original for accuracy. In this diverse society there are many views when you look at photojournalism and thats what makes it interesting.
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