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.
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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
- Arsenii Alenichev, Patricia Kingori, Koen Peeters Grietens, Reflections before the storm: the AI reproduction of biased imagery in global health visuals, The Lancet Global Health, 2023, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00329-7



