Podcast: Beirut in Photos, Instagram Censors a Black Model, Is Getty Selling Images of Child Exploitation?

In this jam-packed episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah and Allen discuss how citizen journalism and professional photojournalism gave us an i...

In this jam-packed episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah and Allen discuss how citizen journalism and professional photojournalism gave us an incredible point of view of the tragic explosion in Beirut, Andy Day and Benjamin Chesterton uncover Magnum Photo images of child sexual exploitation, Instagram censors (then allows) images of plus-size Black model Nyome Nicholas-Williams, CJR interviews Art Greenspon, Robert Hodierne, David Burnett and David Hume Kennerly on covering COVID, the #ReeseChallenge, and photos of a wild boar stealing a man’s laptop!?!?!?!

We mention the following photographers, articles, and websites in this episode:

Beirut explosions: Photos of the aftermath by Lorenzo Tugnoli (via Washington Post)
The Lebanon Explosions in Photos by Diego Ibarra Sanchez (via NYT)
Blast wave videos (@mhijazi)
Newlywed photo shoot (@kitv4)
Hospital birth blast video (via Eddy Khnaisser)
Is Getty Images Selling Photographs of Sexually Exploited Children? (via Fstoppers)
Through a Glass Darkly. Have we been blind to the exploitation… (via Witness)
Benjamin Chesterton tweets (here, here) (@duckrabbitblog)
Lewis Bush tweets (@Lewis__Bush)
The Cost of Sally Mann’s Exposure (via NYT)
Instagram ‘censorship’ of black model’s photo reignites claims of race bias (via The Guardian)
Nyome Nicholas-Williams (@curvynyome)
‘When the heart gets filtered up through the camera’: Vietnam War photographers on how to cover COVID better (via CJR)
All These Celebrities Are Doing This Thing Called The #ReeseChallenge (via Buzzfeed)
You swine! German nudist chases wild boar that stole laptop (via The Guardian)

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