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<\/div>[vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text” animation=”eut-fade-in” animation_delay=”400″]Writing with Light, the original meaning of photography, is a movement by visual journalists and documentary photographers to clearly differentiate their photographs from other images that appear to be photorealistic but are highly manipulated or generated by artificial intelligence systems. The icon, placed next to the photographer\u2019s name in the credit, indicates to readers that the photographer upholds the Statement of Principles (below), striving for fair and accurate reporting of what they experience while acknowledging the subjectivity inherent in their work. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ tablet_sm_width=”1-3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row padding_top_multiplier=”2x” padding_bottom_multiplier=”6x”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ vertical_content_position=”middle” tablet_sm_width=”2-3″ z_index=”3″]
<\/div>[vc_column_text]Just as a writer is an author whose credibility is based upon their skills and integrity as a professional, so too the credibility of a \u201cwriter with light,\u201d the author-photographer, is dependent upon their own skills and integrity as interpreters of people, issues, and events, not solely upon the fidelity of the camera as a recording device. And just as a writer can quote what someone says, so too photographs can be considered as a quotation from appearances presented within the photograph\u2019s frame. In both cases adequate context needs to be provided for the reader to better understand what is being said or seen, while in neither case can quotations, of words or image, be used that mislead.<\/p>\n

If photography is to continue to function as a reliable witness, capable of provoking societal debates and interventions for those in need, differentiating between fact and fiction has never been more important.
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Statement of Principles<\/h1>\n

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<\/div>[vc_row_inner padding_top_multiplier=”custom” padding_bottom_multiplier=”custom” padding_top=”5px” padding_bottom=”20px”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1684247234194{margin-top: 20px !important;border-top-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text”]As recordings of the visible, journalistic photographs must be fair and accurate representations of what the photographer witnessed.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner padding_top_multiplier=”custom” padding_bottom_multiplier=”custom” padding_top=”5px” padding_bottom=”20px”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1684247234194{margin-top: 20px !important;border-top-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text”]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][vc_row_inner padding_top_multiplier=”custom” padding_bottom_multiplier=”custom” padding_top=”5px” padding_bottom=”20px”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1684247234194{margin-top: 20px !important;border-top-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text”]Any deviations to these basic principles must be explained in a caption or credit and marked, where appropriate, by an icon indicating the kind of manipulation that occurred\u00a0which is placed on or below the image when published.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner padding_top_multiplier=”custom” padding_bottom_multiplier=”custom” padding_top=”5px” padding_bottom=”20px”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1684247234194{margin-top: 20px !important;border-top-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]
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