Ethical Dilemmas and The Documentary Photographer: An In-Depth Interview with J. Ross Baughman

If there was ever anyone in the world of photography who can be considered the elder statesman of ethics in documentary photography, it is J. Ross Baughman. An investigative photographer who gained the trust of gangs, hate groups, and often both sides of wars in eleven nations, Baughman saw plenty of ethical issues play out in his experiences. In the late 1970s he won a Pulitzer prize for his coverage Rhodesia's white nationalist government's brutality against its black citizens. After stepping ...