Of photographs and 'frame'works

It's always bothered me to see that there are such brilliant photographs to be seen around. In fact with the photography medium going digital, every second person can seriously start taking up photography. The second revolution is that photography has become integrated with mobile technology. So now the camera is well and truly mobile!
You see, I have a problem. I don't have a problem with too many things, but this one thing I have always had a problem with; namely, with 99% of the photos I've seen, either in a physical frame or a digital frame (blogs etc), the subject is never mentioned! Most of the people are nameless in most photos.
Once the privacy of a person (s) has been captured, then the least the photographer can do is to credit the person. Just say that, the person you see in the photograph is Mr. or Ms. ABC, from XYZ place.
With that simple acknowledgment, people turn from faceless objects of fascination to real people .
As media expands both horizontally and vertically, it is a given that the content will increase, the producers will increase and therefore proportionately, the number of anonymous people popping up on either your TV screen, or websites, or photo magazines etc will only increase.
The only way to fight the tide, is not to start telling the media individually to change, but to start creating the basis for a paradigm shift in approach.
Basically, some policies have to be created, or rewritten, with a strong bent on ethics. We need to put the debates on personal space, privacy and its equations with information distribution; on more public fora, where these tough decisions become a part of public consciousness.
So atleast, if you begin to bring out your camera and want to snap away at some random person you think is interesting, it'll make you think.

Of course, the topic I'm trying to write about, is a much larger theme, and there are a variety of other issues, like consent from the community, etc. But that's another story for another time!