ETHICS OF
MEDIATION
All representation mediates. The camera, the archive, the algorithm — each intervenes between event and understanding, shaping what is made visible and what is suppressed. We scrutinise the structures through which knowledge is produced and distributed in an age of proliferating media.
Reimagining Journalism Ethics
Virtue ethics as an agile alternative to today's 'Angry' news — examining how deontological dominance in journalism may be compromising the artistry of communication.
Read →The Archive and Its Others
Every archive is also a suppression. A visual essay examining what colonial and state archives chose not to preserve — and how artists, communities, and activists have worked to reconstruct, imagine, and honour what was left out.
Read →Algorithmic Vision
When machines learn to see, what do they learn to overlook? This essay examines the training data, design choices, and commercial incentives that shape the visual outputs of artificial intelligence — and what they reveal about the humans who built them.
Read →Witnessing and Its Obligations
To witness suffering is to incur a responsibility. But what responsibility, exactly? This piece examines the ethics of documentary practice, photojournalism, and testimony, asking what it means to look at another's pain with integrity.
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