Photographer Says Death Photo was Attempt to Alert Subway Driver

This is an article about a subway-picture incident where a man was pushed onto the tracks of a subway and was then run over, while everyone else stood by and watched, and one photographer took pictures.  It is about the ethics of the pictures, and about why the photographer took them.  It was written by Michael Pearson, who graduated Emory University Professional Learning Program and University of Missouri-Saint Louis and is a freelance writer for CNN.  Using and interview with the photographer himself, Pearson paints the picture of what was going on at the scene, using liberal ethos with quotes from the photographer, Abbasi, of how he would have done things differently, and recalling how others urged the soon-to-be-dead man to move, to try to escape the subway train.  Pearson lets Abbasi speak with his writing, why Abbasi took the pictures -to get the subway driver’s attention, to do something productive- as well as the reactions to Abbasi’s pictures.  Using quotes from different people, Pearson presents the arguments for and against the publishing of the picture, which provoked an outcry from readers.  He raises the ethical concerns of the picture and its use.  So the question he leaves for us is, was this ethical? Or was this simply too private and insensitive?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/05/us/new-york-subway-death/index.html