Eleanor Mary Louise Jay
Is moral photojournalism possible?
This project looks at photojournalism and the role it plays in our culture. Whether or not
photojournalism is ethical and, if it isn’t, what is the function of it?
Focusing specifically on the work of Kevin Carter in the Sudan in 1993, this project explores these
topics through critical examination of Theodor W. Adorno’s discourses on Culture as mass deception
and Martin Heidegger’s essay On the Origin of the Work of Art.
It will explore the idea of the roles played in society by the photograph, the photographer and the
media, and bring to light the idea of the ‘icon of outrage’ as a necessary feature, both for our society
and culture and for ethical realisation.
A study of the effects of photojournalism