Rehab Eldalil: On relinquishing ownership

In this episode we talk with Rehab Eldalil about relinquishing ownership. She describes different ways that she has used collaboration in her projects, and she unpacks what this means for the ownership of the work. She distinguishes between relinquishing ownership and abdicating responsibility, asserting the responsibilities that she has to the protagonists that she works with.

What does photography ethics mean to Rehab?

“I believed that, first, your ethics depends on you as a person, as a human, as a photographer, but also on the project and the people that you’re working with. … The whole idea of ethics is very fluid because it all depends on all of these different variables, but it’s something that you need to always think about, just like when you’re thinking about budgeting for your work, about shooting plans, travel itinerary, whatever - you still need to have this ethical column that you need to fill in and it all depends on these different variables.” (40:50)

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