Appendix A: Interviews with Professionals
By Martin Smith-Rodden
Visual Reporting: An Interview with Denis Paquin
The choices of if, when, and how to publish violent news images have long been a foundational area of moral and ethical debate among professionals and gatekeepers in visual communication. Every once in a while, the arguments of how to handle such highly charged imagery are fueled by the appearance of a powerful news image, which energizes the discussion like a lightning rod. An indisputable example of such a photo is Turkey-based Associated Press (AP) staff photographer Burhan Özbilici’s (2017) tragic series of photos from 2016, which depicts the assassination of Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov.
Özbilici captured the ...
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