PHOTOGRAPHY is a powerful tool in storytelling and scientific communication. But it can also cause harm when used unethically. We started to realise how photographs can send the wrong message when we were approached, as a group of infectious disease specialists, to develop a presentation on resistance to antibiotics. Our audience was a clinical group in east Africa. Authors ESMITA CHARANI, Honorary Associate Professor, University of Cape Town MARC MENDELSON, Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Cape Town The global health organisation that asked us to do this wanted to use its own branding on our teaching slides. But when…