{"id":1255,"date":"2008-08-08T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2008-08-08T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T18:45:15","slug":"a-moral-question-for-all-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1255","title":{"rendered":"A Moral Question for all Photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE SITUATION:<\/p>\n<p>There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding.<br \/>\nThis is a flood of biblical proportions.<br \/>\nYou are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper and you&#8217;re caught in the middle of this epic disaster.<br \/>\nYou are trying to shoot career-promoting photos.<br \/>\nThere is a mass of debris and many people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water.<br \/>\nNature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.<\/p>\n<p>THE TEST:<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, you see a man in the water.<br \/>\nHe is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris.<br \/>\nYou move closer&#8230; Somehow, the man looks familiar&#8230; You suddenly realise who it is&#8230; It&#8217;s Prime Minister Gordon Brown!<\/p>\n<p>You notice that the raging waters are about to take him under, forever!<\/p>\n<p>You have two options:<\/p>\n<p>You can save the life of Gordon Brown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world&#8217;s leaders.<\/p>\n<p>THE QUESTION:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the question and please give an honest answer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Would you select high contrast colour film or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SITUATION: There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper and you&#8217;re caught in the middle of this epic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}