The New York Times’ public editor, Clark Hoyt, quoted Poynter’s Kenny Irby in a piece about graphic images from the earthquake in Haiti:
“I asked Kenneth Irby, leader of the visual journalism group at the Poynter Institute in Florida, for his assessment of the pictures from Haiti. Irby brings unusual perspectives to the task. He is a veteran photojournalist and an ordained minister, the pastor of an African Methodist Episcopal church in Palmetto, Fla. His wife’s best friend is Haitian, and her family was still unaccounted for when we talked last week. ‘I think the Times coverage has been raw, truthful and tasteful,’ he told me, defending even the most graphic images.
“Irby, who has been in touch with photographers in Haiti, said survivors want the world to see what has happened. ‘The actual loved ones, the bereaved, implore the journalists to tell their stories,’ he said.”
