A Valuable Lesson Every Photographer Must Learn

Photography's role is to document reality--joyful, enraging, sorrowful, or numbing--with utmost sincerity and truth. However, in some instances, the very act of making a photograph, especially of unknown people, without their consent, has made it quite challenging to defend the medium. Here, the intent is of utmost importance. Some people create images to highlight a growing concern of society or to showcase the mundane beauty around us. In other cases, the photographs simply hold no value and a...