After my recent articles on the topic, I was invited to chat with podcast hosts Toby Forage and Meredith Schofield about how I approached gaining informed consent from vulnerable people as a communications professional working for a humanitarian organisation, and the ethical dilemmas that surround photography in the aid sector.
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<p>"...it's a real ethical dilemma for an organisation to be medical, but also fundraising. You require information, stories, photographs and videos of your patients - these people that you also have this duty of care to. It's a real balancing act of protecting their rights, but also being able to raise money…"</p>
Sean Brokenshire
Communications<p>"Photography ethics was probably the biggest debate we constantly had. It was always debated... There was really good processes around protecting patients.”</p>
Sean Brokenshire
Communications<p>"It's about respect. This applies to organisations and individuals, if you're not respecting the person you're photographing then you shouldn't do it."</p>
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