Vulture in Disaster: India Crematorium Pictures being Sold for ₹ 23000, Domestic & Foreign Media Photographers taking Benefits
The number of Indians affected by the Corona infection has attracted the attention of media around the world at this time. Foreign media to surprise his Indian audience in such constant use photographs of the cremation of Hindu rituals is. After Barkha Dutt’s reporting to the crematorium, such pictures have now become extremely ‘important to Western media.
British American media company Getty Images has fixed the price of these outstanding photos in view of the business of such photographs. To use them, the media group can buy the picture from here and put it in their news. Getty Images has fixed their 3-way price. The best quality picture is 23 thousand rupees.
One of these pictures was clicked in Delhi yesterday. In the picture, many bodies are lying on the roadside. Getty Images will give it for Rs 23,000.
The prize of the next picture can also be seen in the picture below.
In addition, pictures taken from the drone above the crematorium are also available on Getty Images. They have been seen so far in many types of reports.
Apart from this, a weeping photo of a family is also giving a Getty image for Rs 23,000.
It may be noted that these photographs have been taken by many photographers from India itself. It also has some freelancers and is also associated with some media houses. This means that not only Getty Images but also Indian photographers are also taking advantage of the cremation by taking photographs of the bodies burning in them, selling them in the foreign or domestic market.
Looking at these pictures, it is clear that foreign and some indigenous media are also using them to show the worse situation arising out of Corona in India. So it is also not surprising that to show the deteriorating condition of Indians, Getty Image is bargaining for them at such high prices.
Significantly, the business model of taking advantage of the disaster has always been good for the Western media. So they included it in that as well. The publisher does the publishing work, the author writes and the photographer provides photographs. However, all this does not mean that the person who is suffering the disaster has been suffering and how much he will be sad to see his picture in the western and native media.
Note: Every photo used in the report is a screenshot of the Getty website. We did not violate any copyright rules. These screenshots were necessary for the news.
Input : OpIndia
