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Medical charity criticised for using images that ‘endanger and exploit children’ amid row over photos from DRC identifying child rape survivor

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has removed photographs of a teenage rape survivor from its Web site after criticism that the images were unethical and racist. MSF took down two photographs of a 16-year-old girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) who was gang-raped by three armed men after photographers, human rights advocates and lawyers condemned the images on Twitter. A spokesperson said the medical non-governmental organization (NGO) accepted that it had been “a misjudgemen...

NGO takes down photos of girl, 16, from DRC from website after critics call them unethical and racist

The story behind The Book of Veles by Jonas Bendiksen is as extraordinary as the fake news business that motivated it. Peter Dench finds out more

Two Black photographers weigh in on the subject of how Africans are depicted in photography competitions in light of new controversy.

When Magnum Photos’s Fabled Archive Went Online, It Opened Pandora’s Box. What Happens When Sensitive Images Fall Into the Wrong Hands? The famous photo agency has had to confront big questions about the role of its storied archive in the photo industry today. March 10, 2021 October 2019, Hamburg: A visitor stands in an exhibition of the work of the Italian Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin at the Haus der Photographie, October 2019. Photo: Markus Scholz/dpa via Getty Images. In August o...