Allen Murabayashi, Author at PhotoShelter Blog

June 29, 2020

Podcast: Presented with Pride – The Evolving POV of LGBTQ Photographers

Whenever a discussion around diversity of photographers arises, someone inevitably questions why the gender, skin color, sexual orientation, etc of the photographer matters. After all,…

June 22, 2020

Podcast: Jake May’s Juneteenth, Jesse Dittmar snaps Charli D’Amelio, and the NYT’s Black Self-Portraits

Juneteenth, the Summer Solstice, and Father's Day – all in one weekend – with some fantastic photography to boot. In this episode of Vision Slightly…

June 15, 2020

Podcast: Photojournalists Have a Heated Ethics Debate & Black Photographers Create the VogueChallenge

As photographers responded to the controversial Poynter article entitled "Photographers are being called on to stop showing protesters' face. Should they?" PhotoShelter co-founder Allen Murabayashi…

June 10, 2020

On Ethics, The First Amendment, and Photographing Protestors’ Faces

During the short-lived daily White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings held by President Trump, a number of news organizations debated and ultimately decided to stop…

June 8, 2020

Yunghi Kim: “Is agreeing NOT to show a person’s face against the ethics of journalism?”

Editor's note: Veteran photojournalist Yunghi Kim (@yunghi) sent me the following thoughts after the publication of my article about the ethics of showing protestors' faces.…

June 8, 2020

No, Photojournalists Aren’t Advocating the Blurring of Faces at Protests

In the midst of global protests in support of #BlackLivesMatter, the Poynter Institute caused a ruckus within the photojournalism industry last week with the provocatively…

June 3, 2020

Photojournalists Assaulted During 2020 Protests

This is a rolling list of assaults against photojournalists by police and protestors covering the George Floyd protests around the country. Some of the data…

June 1, 2020

Photojournalists Attacked and Arrested at Protests Around the Country

In the span of less than a week, concerns about COVID-19 have taken a backseat to the nationwide protests against police brutality and racism sparked…

May 26, 2020

Are There Enough Photos of COVID-19 Death?

Harvard professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis raised the ire of some photojournalists by suggesting that there weren't enough photos of COVID-19-related death to create "mental images"…