Imaging Famine

David Campbell, DJ Clark, Kate Manzo and other contributors created a project named Imaging Famine that brings great light to the discussion of ethics and the role of photographs produced in conflit zones. The project is a research on how famine have been represented in the media, from the nineteenth century to today. Its aim is to provoke a debate about the political effect of such photographs on our understanding of the world. The project website presents a review of images from Ethiopia published in the press during the 80s, a collection of images from contemporary Africa that are normally not published in the media, great papers, links and articles on the subject.

You should check it out before picking up your camera: Imaging Famine