One of Oxfam's principal activities in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS is to educate people about methods of safe sex, including demonstrations in the use of condoms.
It should be emphasised that there is a very clear distinction between the assignments being set as projects within the context of the MA course work, and a live assignment for a client, whether it be an NGO, picture libary, advertising agency or publisher. No client would expect the photographer to be responsible for the entire organisation of the job, without any budget, support or facilitation in terms of access to people and resources.
It's also interesting how many comments are based on opinions about what may or may not be appropriate for the client in question, in this case Oxfam, after the briefest period of time in which to get acquainted and familiarised with the history, work, policies, attitudes, image styles etc utilised by the organisation. In my experience, this is an understanding that of necessity only develops over a period of time, after the photographer has built up a relationship with the client, and no practising photographer would expect to hit the ground running if given the opportunity of working with Oxfam, without extensive preliminary conversations with Oxfam staff about the issues mentioned above, to ensure that the photographer had a working understanding of those issues, and would then be able to produce imagery in accordance with the policies of the organisation.
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