Photographs of Haiti
The role of a photojournalist in disaster zones is a difficult one. There has been some criticism about photographers in Haiti photographing rather than helping and it has opened up this debate once again.
Whilst I understand peoples sentiments about helping, photographers are there to do a job, to tell the story of a newsworthy event in such a way that helps the viewer to engage more fully with it.
It is not an easy thing to do and the suffering seen by photographers often stays with them throughout their life. So just let them do their job. That way more of us see and understand the story they are photographing and donate more money to the aid agencies who are there to help.
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