OUGD405 - If it Bleeds it Leads - Categories

OUGD405 - If it Bleeds it Leads - Categories

Ordering various uncomfortable images that people found in a group in a range of categories was a useful way of determining how the imagery we chose can be used most effectively, and the contexts it could be relevant to in a publication. 

Uncomfortable - Easy

1. Vulture preying on young African child. This image was chosen as the most uncomfortable due to the fact the photographer chose tom capture the image instead of intervene.
2. Christian youth group celebrating the death of a young Palestinian girl
3. Man about to get hit by a train - Similarly to the first image, the photographers lack of intervention was brought up, however the singing joyful faces next to a young girls dead body in picture 2 was thought to be altogether worse.
4. Suffragette Emily Davidson being struck by a horse during a protest for women rights.
5. Hitler with a young child - Although Hitler carried out atrocious acts of violence and hatred, there is no imminent threat in this picture which made it less uncomfortable.
6. Massive high rise complex in Hong Kong showing thousands of rooms habitant the giant structure.

Unethical - Ethical

1. Vulture Image
2. Train image - this time in second place due to the lack of intervention by there photographer making it less ethical.
3. Christian youth group celebrating the death of a young Palestinian girl
4. Hitler with a young child
5. High rise in Hong Kong - Unethical due to the massive health and safety concerns and the potential disaster and loss of life which could occur in the event off heavy damage to the building.
6. Suffragette Emily Davidson being struck by a horse during a protest for women rights. - Voted the least unethical because not only was the death an accident, the person who take the photo could not have stopped it.

Important - Trivial

1. Image of sign informing inhabitants of Hawaii that the warnings of nuclear threat were accidental - Deemed the most important because of the validity of its current relevance. 
2. Image of a prison guard in ‘Abu Ghraib’ prison smiling as he taunts and assaults a prisoner
3. Vietnamese civilian about to be executed during the Vietnam war.
4. Image of Nazi’s during World War Two - Though incredibly important in history, is not of great relevance now.
5. Hitler with Child
6. Image of devastating train crash - Although many lives may have been lost - this was a one off accident.

Vulgar - Cathartic

1. Vietnamese civilian about to be executed during the Vietnam war. - The imminent death and extreme emotion on the civilians face makes this image incredibly unpleasant to look at.
2. Image of a prison guard in ‘Abu Ghraib’ prison smiling as he taunts and assaults a prisoner
3. Shadow of a Hiroshima victim on the ground. - Evocative of the catastrophic loss of life by the Hiroshima bomb.
4. Suffragette Emily Davidson being struck by a horse during a protest for women rights
5. Hitler with child
6. Bottles fused together by the Hiroshima Bomb - In context, this is also evocative of the horrible event, however as an individual image, it is not particularly vulgar.