Martha Tadesse: On unlearning and learning ethics
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In this episode, we talk with Martha Tadesse about representation, ethics, and how to tell visual stories with empathy. Martha explains how she balances her ethics when working with clients in the humanitarian and development sector. She asks photographers to question themselves about what, why, and how they are photographing, and she calls for photo editors to take a more active role in critiquing the over-saturation of work from white photographs and in choosing more Black, indigenous, and photographers of colour for assignments.
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