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Battle of Ideas: Candid Camera

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Partner:: Institute of Ideas
Location:: Institute of Ideas
London, U.K.
Event Date:: 11.01.08
Speakers:: David Cowlard,; Pauline Hadaway,; David Hurn,; Bob Kirwin
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Summary: With the growth of digital technology, and with cameras now ubiquitous on mobile phones, photography is no longer the preserve of professionals and a few amateur enthusiasts.

But the explosion of photography comes at a time when there are also growing concerns about its ethical implications.

Photographers face increasing codes and restrictions on taking pictures in public space. From privacy infringement laws to security concerns and taboos around photographing children, photographers have to navigate a minefield of formal and informal regulations. Yet despite such concerns, we are photographed more than ever before.

With photo sharing sites like Flickr, Facebook and Myspace, the personal photo album – which people once would typically show only to a small circle of family and friends – has become an item for public display.

How do the new regulations and taboos affect the role of photographers in documenting public life? How can we strike a balance between safeguarding the artistic and journalistic freedom of photographers, and the privacy of the public? Can individuals in fact create more authentic representations of everyday life by documenting and displaying it themselves?

Is the photojournalist redundant now that we can all take pictures with our mobile phones and send them in to eager broadcasters and newspapers? Or should we try to preserve and uphold the superior standards – and ethics – of professional photographers? - Institute of Ideas

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David Cowlard

David Cowlard is a London based freelance photographer. His work is centered on a form of architectural reportage and urban landscape that places emphasis on context, habitation and use of the built environment. Cowlard has been widely commissioned by magazines from the UK and internationally and his work has also featured in a number of books. Cowlard writes and teaches on urban and photographic issues and is currently working on a Masters Research project at Kingston University on alternative approaches to architectural photography.

Pauline Hadaway

Pauline Hadaway has worked in arts management since 1990 and is currently Director of Belfast Exposed Photography. Founded in 1983, Belfast Exposed Photography is a gallery of contemporary photography, archive and community photography resource, with a focus on commissioning and publication of new work. Hadaway is a also freelance writer, with plays performed in Newcastle upon Tyne, Belfast and London, and articles published in Circa, Spiked, The Visual Arts Newsletter, Architects Journal, Fourthwrite and Printed Project.

David Hurn

David Hurn has a longstanding international reputation as one of Britain's leading reportage photographers. He is particularly well known for spotlighting the ambiguities and eccentricities of the human experience.

Bob Kirwin

Bob Kirwin started life as a freelance photographer recording the London glitterazzi in the 1970s. He moved into picture editing and was deputy to Horst Faas, the double Pulitzer prize winning Associated Press photographer. Kirwin was poached by The Daily Mail to become Night Picture Editor and then Associate Picture Editor. In 1985, he was asked to set up epa, Europe's first European news photo agency based in Frankfurt. In 1989, Kirwin joined The Times as Deputy Picture Editor. He became Picture Editor in 2000 and moved into senior management four years later.

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01 hr 22 min 45 sec

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01.: Introduction

02 min 24 sec

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02.: David Hurn Opening Remarks on Privacy and Photography

07 min 07 sec

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03.: Pauline Hadaway's Opening on 'Accidental Journalism'

08 min 09 sec

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04.: Bob Kirwin's Opening Remarks

05 min 37 sec

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05.: David Cowlard on Restrictions Facing Photography Today

06 min 52 sec

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06.: Lots of Measures That Can Be Used Against Photgraphers

06 min 57 sec

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07.: Making a Distinction Between What we Can Photograph and What we Can Publish

07 min 13 sec

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08.: Hurn's Perspective on How Photography has Changed

03 min 27 sec

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09.: Notion of Privacy Being Redefined

06 min 03 sec

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10.: Questions: Role of State, Definition of Public Private State

05 min 26 sec

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11.: Questions: Fear of Misrepresentation, Trust

04 min 00 sec

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12.: Panel Answers: Misrepresentation

09 min 14 sec

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13.: Questions: Photography Risky Business, Not Having a Camera With You

04 min 03 sec

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14.: Panel Answers: Robust Public, Politics of Representation

06 min 01 sec

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The Moral Question of the Abu Ghraib Photographs

04 min 21 sec

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Pauline Hadaway discusses the political and moral implications of the photographs shot in Abu Ghraib.

Hadaway believes the photographs have caused moral indignation to be misdirected from the horrors of war to the "impropriety of the photographs."
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