Kael Alford: Ethical Treatment of Subjects, Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2011

PhotoWings Interview with documentary photographer and writer Kael Alford – Foundry Workshop 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kael Alford explores the dangers that subjects face when their image is photographed and published, drawing from her experience in Iraq, and the ethical responsibility that photographers owe to their subjects.

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Kael Alford is a documentary photographer, writer, and journalist. She has worked extensively covering culture, politics and conflict in the balkans and the Middle East for many US and European magazines and newspapers. She covered the US invasion of Iraq and her work was included in the book and exhibition “Unembedded: Four Independent Journalists on the War in Iraq.” She is represented by Panos Pictures in London.