Other difficult subjects should be totally open and available for the photographer who can handle taking the shot. Quite often these are stories that need to be told.

I wish I could put my fingers on the article I read (or heard on CBC Radio) about a photographer who took a controversial image. If I remember correctly, the subject of the image recorded the last moments of a soldier’s life. He felt he may have invaded that man’s privacy and profited from his death.

A close friend or relative of the dead man took the time to track down and thank the photographer for image because it showed the true cost of war and honoured the soldier’s memory. It was a very powerful message.