Shutterbug Magazine Radio Professionalism and Ethics

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to participate in an interview on Shutterbug Magazine radio. The theme was ethics and professionalism in photography. As a photographer and educator these topics come up from time to time in the studio or in the classroom, but it is a rare opportunity to talk about business ethics to a more mainstream audience.

The topic was partly inspired by recent news coverage of photojournalists creating new images from multiple frames using image editing software and the comments of a popular conceptual photographer who created images of a political candidate. Although very different circumstances, both have started multiple discussions online and in the mainstream media about the photography industry and the professional standards and ethics we stand by.

As I prepared for the interview I looked back at some of my experiences over the twenty years I have been a professional. My personal opinion is that the expectations of our profession have not changed, but that society has both raised the bar of what is acceptable and at the same time been an accomplice to more and more sifting under the bar.

Here is the link to the interview, let's see what develops. Bad puns never die they must be archival!