How to show the International Trade … Not!
Innovative, maybe - but it's inaccurate - and you have no idea, when you see this tangled web
A photographer sometimes faces a tough dilemma when he is working. What can be shown - and is there some issues that he can’t photograph? Infographic artists face the same dilemma when doing violent infographics.
It’s an ongoing discussion - a discussion we must never stop.
There are differences though - a photographer has the added dilemma that his actions at the scene might or might not interfere with the news. Perhaps he can help someone if he stops shooting and comes to aid? Or perhaps his role as a documenter is so important that he shouldn’t interfere with the situation and interfere with the pristine news?
Look at this video - it lasts for two minutes and asks the important question quite efficiently.
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Thomas Molén went ahead and made a very clean and elegant online-graphic, where you can see who voted for who in the European Song Contest

Innovative, maybe - but it’s inaccurate - and you have no idea, when you see this tangled web

It’s not personal taste - it is science, cognitive psychology, that tells us that the brain can’t handle overly complex graphics

The graph visualizing the Ebb and Flow of Movies 1986-2008 was awarded Best of Show/Peter Sullivan Award

Judges decided to seek out only the truly perfect graphics - and not to argue too much about the medals
Hi Doreen
If you’re writing a school paper, I see no problem for you in using the article. What do you think? Should a photographer show this kind of pictures?
Hi there… I’m wondering if I can use this article/video in a school paper I am writing on ethics?
Thank you!
Wow. In all the tragedy, its a beautiful clip. I have no problems with the photographers approach to his work. He saw there were help on the way, and I dont think he could have saved her anyway. If he had been alone and only thought about taking pictures its another story…