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Writing with Light<\/span><\/span><\/h1>

Ethical standards for Non Fiction Photography in the age of AI<\/span><\/span><\/h3>
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Writing with Light is a movement to support nonfiction photography by privileging the integrity of the photographer as author. Nonfiction photography is a recording of the visible in which the photographer strives to represent actualities in a fair and factual manner. <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h3>
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Statement of Principles<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row padding_top_multiplier=”” padding_bottom_multiplier=”” rc_heading_color=”light” rc_bg_type=”color” separator_top_size=”30px” rc_font_color=”#ffffff” rc_bg_color=”#6286b0″][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″]
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Differentiating between fact and fiction<\/span><\/h3>

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<\/div>[vc_column_text animation=”eut-fade-in” animation_delay=”600″ animation_duration=”slow” css=”.vc_custom_1689531884277{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]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.[\/vc_column_text]

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As a non-fiction photographer, I strive to understand what I\u2019m documenting and present the images, words and context that help clarify and deepen my images with as much veracity as possible. Even prior to the proliferation of AI, facts and truth have been called into question, mainly by authoritarian and non-democratic forces. Now with AI, it\u2019s imperative that we strive to maintain our accuracy and push back on the forces that manipulate truth and sow fear into the masses only for political power and influence.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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A camera is an ethical tool which helps guarantee credibility because the photographer is an observer. AI images are just numbers in a box that have no conscience and no morality. But they look like a photographer \u201ctook them\u201d. Synthetic images are not any more real than fiction is fact. Even if fiction sounds like fact, it is not. That\u2019s why books are identified as fiction or non-fiction. The real danger with AI begins when the public can no longer believe documentation because they can\u2019t see the difference. When lies become truths, truths become lies. Our job is to hold those in power accountable, so without the integrity of the press, the future of democracy is threatened.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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I use the language of images, along with that of words, to document the world I\u2019ve had the privilege to enter and participate in through my questions, my observations and my camera. As an honest photojournalist, I don\u2019t extrapolate or lie with words, and I don\u2019t do that with images, either.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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Today, artificial intelligence has given us the possibility to synthetise ‘photographic truth\u2019 relying on (post) photographic data stretching out from images formerly known as \u2018straight\u2019 to \u2018improved\u2019 and now also \u2013 and increasingly – synthetic. All stored in the \u2018cloud\u2019, pretending to be collective memory while in reality shaped by commercially operated algorithms: systems locked up in black boxes virtually no one has access to.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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As a documentary photographer who lives in a country where the truth is a battlefield I fear that manipulation of everything will become so much more easier with AI that we won\u2019t be able to hold those in power accountable for their actions.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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Newsha Tavakolian - Artist\/Documentary Photographer<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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As documentary image makers and as humans, we feel emotions. This is crucial for our images to transcend the algorithms. Artificial intelligence is far away from feeling.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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No one should be able to to tell the story of who you are better than you. I believe that one of the downfalls of AI is its ability to further hijack and\/or silence the voices of marginalized individuals whose stories have historically been told for them instead of by them.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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Khary Mason - Artist\/Visual & Literary Educator<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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This new and dangerous world of digital distortion and AI will crush our powerful witness in documentary photography and the truth that so many of us have strived to observe through our photographs.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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Ken Light - Documentary Photographer<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Still and moving images purporting to be photographic or camera-led eyewitness proof of actual unfolding news events or of non-fiction documentary issues-\u2014whether deployed in newspapers, on TV stations, or on social media\u2014must remain contextualized and easily distinguishable from images which are fabricated by AI.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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In order to safeguard the long-term credibility of the photographic record there needs to be a robust industry-wide set of standards.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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Stephen Ferry - Non-fiction Photographer<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Our mission as photojournalists is to show the world as we experience it and see it. We strive to honestly represent the people we meet and the places we visit in our photos. Artificial intelligence cannot do this.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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Joseph Rodriguez - Documentarian\/Photojournalist<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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I became a photojournalist because I believed that photos and moving images I saw in newspapers and on TV stations showed me the world as I had not seen it. I continue to make what we once called \u201cstraight photos\u201d\u2014no edits or changes of images that added, removed, or distorted content in the frame\u2014 because I believe in their value and their power.<\/q><\/h5>\n

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Brian Palmer - Documentarian\/Visual Journalist<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row section_type=”fullwidth” padding_top_multiplier=”2x” rc_bg_type=”color” scroll_section_title=”Partners” rc_font_color=”#000000″][vc_column vertical_content_position=”middle” text_align=”center”]

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Individuals<\/span><\/h4>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text text_style=”subtitle”]Jane Evelyn Atwood<\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text text_style=”subtitle”]Donna DeCesare<\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text text_style=”subtitle”]Savannah Dodd, PhD
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