Are There Enough Photos of COVID-19 Death?

Harvard professor Sara Elizabeth Lewis raised the ire of some photojournalists by suggesting that there weren't enough photos of COVID-19-related death to create "mental images" of the breadth of the pandemic and the wake of destruction. In this episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah Jacobs and Allen Murabayashi discuss the reactions by Gary He, Lucas Jackson and Reading the Pictures, Philip Montgomery's work for the NYT, plus a visualization of the news by Josh Begley.

But wait there's more! Is it unethical to use a telephoto lens to portray crowds during the pandemic? Jörg Colberg reacts to a photo of nurse Colby Hutson, Caitie McCabe's FaceTime photos, The Joys of Deleting Photos, and New York Nico's #BestNYPhotos