WTF were MagnumPhoto & LensCulture thinking?

[gr82bart]

https://www.duckrabbit.info/2017/04/lensculture-commodification-rape/

Regards, Art

 

[Richard Man]

Mary Ellen Mark has a powerful body of work on sex workers, rather NOT like this. This does seem like exploitation... :-/

 

[pocketshaver]

is this an ethics question on copy right infringement, or upon how weird people are going around in third world countries, and taking photos of underage children naked, and having sex with adults... ie creating child pornography,, in a self promoted article on child trafficking?

 

[BAC1967]

It’s one thing to photograph children that are abused to bring attention to the problem but this photographer clearly crossed a line. To have access to take photos like that you have to assume he was part of the problem.

 

[pocketshaver]

It’s one thing to photograph children that are abused to bring attention to the problem but this photographer clearly crossed a line. To have access to take photos like that you have to assume he was part of the problem.

That's just it, most of the photographers who have books and websites with this sort of content, were actively participating in child sex slavery. May not have been actively introducing child prostitutes with customers, but when you sit in the corner and take photos of say a 30 year old bend a 12 year old kid over a chair,,,, your actively part of the problem.