It’s part of the belief that your reflection is your soul. Mirrors, when you look into them, it reflects your soul and does not reflect back the light that hits them. What you see in front of you is another life trapped in a portal to another dimension.
So with this belief, when someone died, and they were having the funeral, the mirrors were all covered, just so their soul wouldn't accidentally get trapped.
Camera’s lens were used to be mirror, but the difference is it has the capacity to capture not just reflect an image. Photojournalism as one sort of photography uses a camera to freeze a specific reality, to use it for the purpose of disclosing the truth.
Photojournalist who took footages always faced a basic ethical concept, whether they would help the victim and put their cameras down or continue their duty to take photo and remain observing what will happen next. In the first place photojournalists wanted to shoot the best angle of a tragedy for the whole world to see.
So with this belief, when someone died, and they were having the funeral, the mirrors were all covered, just so their soul wouldn't accidentally get trapped.
Camera’s lens were used to be mirror, but the difference is it has the capacity to capture not just reflect an image. Photojournalism as one sort of photography uses a camera to freeze a specific reality, to use it for the purpose of disclosing the truth.
Photojournalist who took footages always faced a basic ethical concept, whether they would help the victim and put their cameras down or continue their duty to take photo and remain observing what will happen next. In the first place photojournalists wanted to shoot the best angle of a tragedy for the whole world to see.