Aid history and photo-realistic generative AI collide.

Ethics of global health imagery— is a collaboration between historians, media scholars and bioethicists.

We’re critically exploring visuals past and present—the deceptive simplicity, fakery, misleading tropes—and their impact on the future of an equitable and just world.

Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland

4-6 June 2025

PUBLICATIONS:

Alenichev A, de Laat S, Solomon N, Suwalowska H, Peeters Grietens K, Parker M, et al. (2024) Assembling a global health image: Ethical and pragmatic tensions through the lenses of photographers. PLOS Glob Public Health 4(2): e0002540. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002540

Additional information about the project can be found here.

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