Image Manipulation Ethics/ areas of work

In this day and age, anyone and everyone has the power to manipulate images, they can simply go on to photoshop and edit any picture that a journalist could have shot, this makes editing such an accessible normal thing to do, whereas in the past this sort of ease would not have been available, however, since the start of photography, images have always been doctered etc. This presents a problem throughout histoy of how much of the original image is still remaining and how much truth is the picture now portrarying. It becomes an issue of ethics vs aesthetics or art vs journalism. This creates a point as, it could be viewed that a journalist is a photographer that documents reality and therefore it is ethically wrong for such pictures to be changed as it will no longer tell the truth. Whereas if someone takes a picture purely for the purpose of art, ethics is not an issue as art is not something that doesn't need to be real as it is a creative endeavour.  

Often times, for the individual and the person, or even, professional photographer ‘photoshopping’ is no big deal.  It is a little bit different for a media manager.  They have to walk that thin line of portraying the truth of the scene, what actually happened, what it physically looked like, so that those that are learning about it through that managers organization are getting the truth, as best they can present.

Image manipulation is also a massive enterprise within magazines and the fashion industry, men and women are photo edited to make a perfect, flawless individual, this is a massive ethical problem in the world of media as it's completely not a true, real reflection of a normal human being, as the whole intent of image manipulation in people is to take out in perfections such as skin blemishes, fatness etc. This creates a lot of problems such as an impact on young people and the way they view themselves and their body image, and ultimately does not create a true reflection of people.