Assembling a global health image: Ethical and pragmatic tensions through the lenses of photographers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recently, global health has been confronting its visual culture, historically modulated by colonialism, racism and abusive representation. There have been international calls to promote ethicality of visual practices. However, despite this focus on the history and the institutional use of global health images, little is known about how in practice contemporary images are created in communities, and how consent to be in photographs is obtained.

Methods

We conducted semi-structured interviews with 29 global health photographers about the ethical and practical challenges they experience in creating global health images, and thematically analysed the findings.

Findings

The following themes were identified: (1) global health photography is undergoing a marketing

SUBMITTER: Alenichev A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10866471 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature