Photographers as Morally-Endangered Species!

I smiled when AI Overview described professional or occupational hazards as any object, material, situation, or activity in the workplace that can cause potential harm, injury, illness, or even death to workers, including physical dangers (e.g. machinery, slips), chemical exposures, biological agents (e.g. viruses, bacteria), ergonomic issues (e.g. poor posture), and psychosocial stressors (e.g. workload, violence), etc.

That's because I it had no idea what exactly made me punch the search button. I had planned to put up an SOS piece on behalf of 'innocent' men and women skilled with creating lovely memories through still photography.

While it is true that different professions, careers and businesses have inherent risks, there's this dimension that I am struggling to understand. It's so subtle, naive minds could have been taken over by it before realising.

This is it: I hear there's now something called: Nude Photography!

While there might be photographers who have made this type a trade path, there are others who only find 'near nudes' as part of the assembled dresses of their clients on the shoot day.

Ha! I used to know about:

- People photography (i.e. Portraits, Weddings, Fashion).

- Places photography (i.e. Landscape, Architecture, Travel, Street).

- Objects/Commercial photograpy (i.e. Food, Product, Real Estate).

- Nature/Science photograpy (i.e. Wildlife, Macro, Astrophotography, Scientific).

- Artistic/Documentary photography (i.e. Fine Art, Abstract, B&W, Surrealism).

- Photojournalism, etc.

With the step up of demands for nude or near nude photographs, it's becoming riskier for well-intended photographers to resist the fall off the morality cliff, except they are well armed with strong values.

Dear Photographer, if all you've ever wanted to do was accept a gig, whether it derailed your values or not, my guy, you may be in for it.

Here's my firm counsel from you:

- Choose your gig carefully, no matter how desperate for business you get.

- State your business values where it becomes important.

- Sieve who you are attracting.

Tell me how you’ll keep photographing nudes and you expect your life to be straight.

Omo, help yourself o, and let God help you!

This is my small support for a field I love so much.

Be safe out there, guys!

I'm Bosede Olusola-Obasa,

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