ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims to stimulate a critical and hermeneutical examination of the fundamental bases on which specific moral principles have been established. It focuses on the debate over the relationship between truth, objectivity, and photography. The book also aims to demonstrate how drawing on both historical and philosophical foundations to engage modern discussions of photojournalism and ethics. It argues that applying objectivity to the practice of photography, while historically familiar, has significant conceptual and theoretical holes because it places the same onus on images as are placed on words, while failing to recognize the starkly different functions each play and the affordances each has in communicating with audiences. The book describes the relationship between the protection of human dignity and the representation of the other, especially the other who is suffering.
