Accuracy in photojournalism. A presentation for Kuwait University mass communication students

1. Accuracy in
Photojournalism

2. ‫التأكد‬‫ﻣ‬‫في‬ ‫الحقائق‬ ‫عرض‬ ‫في‬ ‫الخطأ‬ ‫عدم‬ ‫ن‬
‫و‬ ‫العناوين‬‫ﻣ‬‫قد‬‫ﻣ‬‫الترويجية‬ ‫والمواد‬ ‫األخبار‬ ‫ات‬
‫البيانية‬ ‫والرسوم‬ ‫السمعية‬ ‫والمواد‬ ‫والفيديو‬ ‫والصور‬
‫الصو‬ ‫واللقطات‬‫ﺗ‬‫واالقتباسات‬ ‫ية‬.‫اإلفراط‬ ‫ينبغي‬ ‫فال‬
‫في‬‫ﺗ‬‫أو‬ ‫بسيطھا‬‫ﺗ‬‫خارج‬ ‫أحداث‬ ‫على‬ ‫الضوء‬ ‫سليط‬
‫سياقھا‬
SPJ Code of Ethics

3. ‫عدم‬‫ﺗ‬‫أو‬ ‫حريف‬‫ﺗ‬‫شويه‬‫ﻣ‬‫أو‬ ‫الصور‬ ‫ضمون‬
‫الفيديو‬ ‫لقطات‬.‫أ‬‫ﻣ‬‫التعديل‬ ‫ا‬‫ﻣ‬‫الوضوح‬ ‫أجل‬ ‫ن‬
‫فمسموح‬ ‫التقني‬‫به‬‫دو‬‫ﻣ‬‫ا‬.‫كما‬‫عنونة‬ ‫ينبغي‬
‫التوضيحية‬ ‫والصور‬ ‫المونتاج‬ ‫لقطات‬
SPJ Code of Ethics

4. ‫ﺗ‬‫إعادة‬ ‫جنب‬‫ﺗ‬‫بطريقة‬ ‫الحدث‬ ‫مثيل‬‫ﻣ‬‫أو‬ ‫ضللة‬
‫اإلخبارية‬ ‫لألحداث‬ ‫التركيبي‬ ‫العرض‬
SPJ Code of Ethics

5. Kent State Shooting
The Fence?

6. Moving the Pyramids to fit
the cover

7. Iran's Revolutionary Guards released these
images
Propaganda

8. AP photographer in Syria
Fired

9. Middle East Peace Talks at
the White House, 2010

10. Al Ahram newspaper

12. Doctoring gruesome images

13. a Lebanese photographer, shows thick black smoke in Beirut
after an Israeli air raid
He said he was only trying to clean up the photo and not alter
the image

14. Alarabiya in Libya

15. Los Angeles Times Iraq photo
Photographer fired

16. Toppling of Saddam Hussein Statue
Camera Angles

21. John Kerry and Jane Fonda
speaking at different Vietnam
War rallies

23. Mugshot of O.J.
Darker and more dangerous

24. Oprah manipulated without her
permission

25. Make women slimmer

26. The Heat Film Poster, 2013

27. Inserting a black person for diversity

28. 2013 World Press photo of the year (Paul Hansen) - photoshopped!

29. • “In many newsrooms it is unethical to pass off a
retouched photo as reality. Ideally, retouching of a
news photograph should be limited to basic
exposure and color correction, cropping, resizing,
or conversion to grayscale. Any Photoshopping that
alters the meaning of the original photo should be
labeled as a “news illustration” in the caption so
the viewer understands the photo has been
altered.”
- mediabistro.com

30. Sources
• HOAXES, FAKES AND DOCTORED PHOTOS
THROUGH HISTORY
• SPJ Code of Ethics