{"id":6187,"date":"2023-05-04T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/screenartsschool.org\/standards\/?page_id=6187"},"modified":"2024-02-24T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:42:36","slug":"statement_of_principles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/statement_of_principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row section_type=&#8221;container-width&#8221; padding_bottom_multiplier=&#8221;&#8221; separator_top_size=&#8221;30px&#8221; separator_top_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1684771707408{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]<div class=\"eut-empty-space\" style=\"height: 40%;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1684771714440{border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]<div class=\"eut-empty-space eut-height-3x\" style=\"\"><\/div><h1 class=\"eut-element eut-title eut-align-inherit eut-h1\" style=\"\"><span><br>\n<h1>Statement of Principles<\/h1>\n<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"eut-empty-space eut-height-1x\" style=\"\"><\/div>[vc_column_text text_style=&#8221;leader-text&#8221;]As recordings of the visible, journalistic photographs must be fair and accurate representations of what the photographer witnessed.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"eut-empty-space\" style=\"height: 20px;\"><\/div><div class=\"eut-element eut-divider\" style=\"\"><span class=\"eut-custom-divider eut-bg-grey eut-align-inherit\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 1px;\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"eut-empty-space\" style=\"height: 20px;\"><\/div>[vc_column_text text_style=&#8221;leader-text&#8221;]Neither alterations to a photograph that mislead the public, nor staging events while depicting them as spontaneous, are acceptable in journalism. Nor should one publish a photorealistic synthetic image made by artificial intelligence and pretend that it is an actual photograph.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"eut-empty-space\" style=\"height: 20px;\"><\/div><div class=\"eut-element eut-divider\" style=\"\"><span class=\"eut-custom-divider eut-bg-grey eut-align-inherit\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 1px;\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"eut-empty-space\" style=\"height: 20px;\"><\/div>[vc_column_text text_style=&#8221;leader-text&#8221;]Any deviations to these basic principles must be explained in a caption, credit, or appropriate icon.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"eut-empty-space\" style=\"height: 20px;\"><\/div><div class=\"eut-element eut-divider\" style=\"\"><span class=\"eut-custom-divider eut-bg-grey eut-align-inherit\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 1px;\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"eut-empty-space eut-height-1x\" style=\"\"><\/div>[vc_column_text text_style=&#8221;small-text&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1697074688806{border-top-width: 2px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 2px !important;border-left-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]In support of a vibrant photojournalism that can serve as a credible witness to people, issues, and events, a group of organizations and individuals have agreed upon the following Statement of Principles. It is issued as a response to the recent emergence of artificial intelligence systems that can generate photorealistic images which can be confused with actual photographs, as well as to other forms of photographic manipulation. Most importantly, it is a call for an invigorated visual journalism that can provide a more complex, thoughtful, and dynamic exploration of societies worldwide, one in which the photographer must be considered the author of the image with all of the responsibility that this entails.<\/p>\n<p>The Writing With Light Statement of Principles is currently available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/sop-translations\/\"><strong>following languages<\/strong><\/a>:<br \/>\nEnglish<br \/>\nMandarin Chinese<br \/>\nSpanish<br \/>\nFrench<br \/>\nModern Standard Arabic<br \/>\nBengali<br \/>\nRussian<br \/>\nPortuguese<br \/>\nBahasa Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/glossary\/\"><strong>Glossary of Terms<\/strong><\/a> and other <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a><\/strong>,including a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1CtlS5A7hUjTs1OxmX4qHZj75L8yovXAmFDl3Hvpk-x8\/edit#heading=h.zamgjelygvo0\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bibliography<\/strong><\/a> can be found on this website as well.<\/p>\n<p>Photographers may indicate their agreement with Writing with Light&#8217;s Statement of Principles by using the following <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/download-icon\/\">icon<\/a> <\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/screenartsschool.org\/standards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/six.png\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" \/> and linking it back to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/statement_of_principles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this page<\/a><\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"eut-empty-space eut-height-2x\" style=\"\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"eut-element eut-divider\" style=\"\"><span class=\"eut-custom-divider eut-bg-grey eut-align-inherit\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 1px;\"><\/span><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row section_type=&#8221;container-width&#8221; padding_bottom_multiplier=&#8221;&#8221; separator_top_size=&#8221;30px&#8221; separator_top_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1684771707408{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1684771714440{border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text text_style=&#8221;leader-text&#8221;]As recordings of the visible, journalistic photographs must be fair and accurate representations of what the photographer witnessed.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_style=&#8221;leader-text&#8221;]Neither alterations to a photograph that mislead the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8795,"href":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6187\/revisions\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwlight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}