{"id":10964,"date":"2020-06-11T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10964"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:32:34","slug":"showing-faces-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10964","title":{"rendered":"Showing faces II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For a rather wider discussion of the issues involved in photographing protests and showing the faces of those taking part, you may like to read <a aria-label=\"On Ethics, The First Amendment, and Photographing Protestors\u2019 Faces (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.photoshelter.com\/2020\/06\/on-ethics-the-first-amendment-and-photographing-protestors-faces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"aioseop-link\">On Ethics, The First Amendment, and Photographing Protestors\u2019 Faces<\/a> by Allen Murabayashi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is of course in some respects a very US-centric article, talking about Trump and about the constitution. But I think it makes some of the reasons for the disagreements over the issue clear, and is worth reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Murabayashi gives his own opinion in two short paragraphs as the end of the piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To me, the real discussion shouldn\u2019t be about the blurring or obscuring of faces, nor gaining consent of a subject. These are tactical choices, and in the U.S. there is simply no&nbsp;<em>expectation&nbsp;<\/em>of privacy in a public setting.<\/p><p>Instead, we ought to continue to consider how photography is used to portray others (particularly the vulnerable), and whether an image truly advances a story or simply acts as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.photoshelter.com\/2020\/04\/the-photographic-phases-of-depicting-covid-19\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">signifier<\/a>&nbsp;for the photo we should have taken.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.photoshelter.com\/2020\/06\/on-ethics-the-first-amendment-and-photographing-protestors-faces\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Op cit<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The link in the last sentence is to another piece by Murabayashi, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.photoshelter.com\/2020\/04\/the-photographic-phases-of-depicting-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"The Photographic Phases of Depicting COVID-19, (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"aioseop-link\">The Photographic Phases of Depicting COVID-19,<\/a> which is also an interesting read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a rather wider discussion of the issues involved in photographing protests and showing the faces of those taking part, you may like to read On Ethics, The First Amendment, and Photographing Protestors\u2019 Faces by Allen Murabayashi. It is of course in some respects a very US-centric article, talking about Trump and about the constitution. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Showing faces II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2113,2115,1687,2128,56,1121,2129],"class_list":["post-10964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","tag-blacklivesmatter","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-covid-19","tag-faces","tag-photography","tag-privacy","tag-blm-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10966,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions\/10966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}