Sontag writes extensively on photographic ethics in Regarding the Pain of Others.  Although her focus is on war photography, photography of the most violent and cruel acts, much of her analysis still applies to any sort of photography that emerges in a context of complex power relations.  I, in my big white car, aimed my camera like a gun and, in a gesture not so far removed from that of a drive-by shooter, took photos of black subsistence farmers who would have been unable to vote fifteen years ago.  I did this and knew what I was doing was not ethical because I instinctively recoiled from it even as I did it.  Of course, my motivation wasn’t violent, it was aesthetic.  Overcome by the pastoral beauty of the KwaZulu-Natal I wanted to put Zulus in it.  They seem to live so beautifully here.  But that doesn’t alleviate my guilt.  Maybe it makes it worse.  Maybe I’m like those people that find beauty in footage of the falling towers on 9/11?  Would that make me a bad person?