C: So, What Are You Thinking About Your Project? You Were Telling Me About Photography

C: So, what are you thinking about your project? You were telling me about photography

V: Yeah, I wanna look into ethics and photojournalism, which is a very broad topic, right? So, what I thought about was looking at the photographs that have been awarded either the Pulitzer Prize or Picture of the Year in the last... I havent thought about time yet... but, Im guessing in the last 20 years because that should be interesting to find in the internet.

C: So, what are the photos about?

V: Photos that have won these awards. Looking at them, I would like to analyze the basic content of every single image for the past 20 years and see and then I dont have a research question yet, but that is what I wanna do and I wanna see how ethics relate to that. I wanna see if the awards and the institutions that sponsor the awards hold any strong views on ethics within photojournalism. So, lets say, if most of the pictures depict suffering or grief or deadly bleeding or something like that... Is it ethical to award a photo like that? You see... So that is what I want to... but I'm not sure yet how I am gonna go about it

C: I think first time you mentioned ethics and photography, that reminded me of that one article of when they had that hurricane of new orleans... that was that one article that was exactly about taking photos of people who've experienced the disaster and were on, right ont eh stop. You could look at that article

V: Yeah. Was that hurricane Katrina?

C: Yeah

V: Though, there was... I didnt find..

C: Although it doesnt relate to giving prizes to whoever the photographer was. It was just you know, about the photographs and

: Yeah, well, the thing about the prizes is: they bring forth all the work the photograph has done, right? Suddenly the photographer becomes very credible and famous in the media and... It's, you know, they know that's gonna happen. I know that if I give you an award, a Pulitzer Prize, everyone is gonna look at you and say: Wow! She should be a good photographer, but how ethical is that if the photograph is depicting someone in pain, or in grief or in suffering? so, thats the thing Im thinking about. Does it make sense to you?

C: Yeah

V: Yeah? And then, it wouldnt be that hard to define my population, which would be the pictures right? And now I would need a time spam. 20 years, Im guessing. That'd be good. I could even look at the evolution of ethics in photojournalism. You know, from the beginning of the award to nowadays. There was like there were two very controversial pictures that won the award.

C: Who are the photographers?

V: One of them in 94 and the other one in 91 and they are very very famous and people talk about them so much. One is Kevin Carter and the other one is Greg Marinovic. They are both South African photographers. They both won the Pulitzer Prize. And they were, like, very controversial. One of them is the little girl in Sudan, with the vulture waiting for her to die, basically, and the other one is a guy in flames, in fire and there is another guy with a big knife and he is stabbing him on his head while he is on fire. Yeah. They are very disturbing, very disturbing. So, it should be interesting, but I really dont know how to about abou it... how to formulate the research question. Thats my problem now. Have you got one? Have you got a research question? or just a topic?

C: NO, I mean I dont even know if Im goona stick to the topic I was gonna do. I might change it...

V: We can right?

C: We can. I think so. I mean, right now I have time. It is just...

Weird noises...

V: How did you do that? You were just pressing here?

C: Yeah (indiscernible). Look at my golden viking... He is not even a viking... He is a knight. A medieval knight.

V: I cant reach him! Damn it! And when I can, it hits the helmet. IS it time to go?

V: They're not done yet. We'll just finish when they're finished. We should stop recording now.

C: Ok, so this is my research topic and I believe it is gonna be very useful for society when I finish my paper.

V: Uhum. Yes.

C: I think we're done. Ok