Photo Ethics- Changing the perspective of a photo

You can change the perspective of a photograph by giving people the background information on the events leading up to the photograph or making up a false story to go with the photograph. Like the image below was taken by a photographer in the Vietnam war, it looks like a man who is about to be shot, but in actual fact he has already been shot and the bullet is in his head at the point the photograph is being taken.

You can change someones perspective by changing the story which goes along with the photograph. For example if I said that this man was being shot because just before that image was taken he brutally killed two children, you would feel differently about the image. However if you knew the true story that this man was a prisoner of war, who had surrendered but was still being shot in the street, you would have a different view on it.