For award-winning US photojournalist ronhaviv, who has documented 25 wars and genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, 'photography can't stop a war,' but it 'becomes evidence.' Here's what he had to say about countering the AI threat to photojournalism.
Haviv's image of a desperate Bosnian prisoner during the war in Yugoslavia featured at the United Nations in New York in 1993In the time it takes to read this article, around 10 million photographs will be taken. Most will come from By contrast, award-winning US photojournalist Ron Haviv has mostly taken photos to document conflict. He has photographed more than 25 wars, from the US-led invasion of Iraq to conflicts in Afghanistan, Panama, Haiti, and most recently, Ukraine.
Children in a Kyiv subway station shelter during Russian missile attacks. From Ron Haviv's 'I once had a home' series, it was runner up in UNICEF's Photo of the Year, 2022Haviv gained"an understanding at that moment that the photography that I could do, especially around conflict, could play a very serious role in conversation, in raising awareness and education."
It was a steep learning curve for Haviv, and not just in terms of photography techniques. He also had to discover that"it was imperative that there were people telling these stories to hold people accountable, not only for their action, but for their inaction," he explained.Image: Neilson Barnard/AFP/Getty ImagesWith some of the cruelest of human acts,"The photography moves past this idea of just being journalism, it becomes evidence," Haviv said.
But what about the sensitivities, the intrusion? Haviv is unequivocal."Having done this for more than 30 years," he said,"I have never gone to a funeral of somebody that's died through politics, war, famine, and been told, 'No, don't take any photographs.'" "What you should be expecting from people like myself is authorship of an idea," he said, referring to the threat of AI. "This is a story that I'm telling in depth, especially now," he explained, adding that works by real people have "integrity ... This is reality."
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