About The Blog

My life has revolved around memories and the best way to capture these memories is in photographs. So this blog will be discussing the ethical impacts of photography in different scenarios. The first three blog posts will be involving the differences in legality versus ethical differences in photography, ethics involving celebrity pictures, and the ethics of a person in distress. The history of capturing images goes back much further than the technology of the actual photograph in the means of drawings, paintings, and other forms. However, the increase in technology and accessibility has astronomically increased the relevance and prevalence of photographs in society. As there was an increase in the usage and accessibility of photographs there began to be the need to regulate them. In 1900 the United States passed the NSW Crimes Act which made taking a photograph of anyone doing “private” activities illegal. This has changed as the nation grows and improves but has stayed similar to this. But we are more focused on ethics, not legality so the first blog post will discuss that. This first topic lays the groundwork on ethics and legality for the next blog which involves one of the most heavily photographed groups of people in the world, celebrities. After the blog post on the ethics of celebrity pictures, it will transition into the next topic which is about the ethics of taking a picture of someone in distress for example soldiers in a warzone and photos of 9/11. Overall, these three posts encompass a wide range of topics inside of the main idea, ethics in photography so check out the blog posts.