1. The things that should not be photographed are things like people who ask not to be photographed. If you as the photographer are intruding unwanted after specifically being asked not to, I think it is a violation of individual privacy. However, I think that all things in the public domain should be photographed. Things that are horrible and disturbing need to be photographed especially, so that people can understand the situation. For example, Emmett Till, a young black boy from Chicago during the 1960's, went down to the south to visit some cousins and boasted that he had two white girlfriends in Chicago. The cousins didn't believe him and dared him to talk to a white women at a store. He apparently winked at a white women, and said a couple words. That night he was taken from his aunt and uncle's house and brutally tortured before being murdered. Found in a river later, he was shipped in a casket back to his mother in Chicago with a note that said not to open it because it was too disturbing to see. There was a significant amount of media attention, and when Mrs. Till got the casket the reporters asked her what she would do. She told them that she was going to have a funeral for her son and that it would be open-casket. People were scandalized and told her that it was too disturbing to show, but she wanted to have people see what had been done to her child. There was a funeral, and people took pictures of the body. JET magazine published the photo, and it ignited the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks saw the picture and said that it was what made her decide not to move to the back of the bus. By seeing evidence on what things are really like- even if the images are graphically disturbing, people are able to get the truth about a situation and react accordingly.
2. Things that cannot be photographed are some ideas, and non-physical things, as well as things that happened in the past. We can only capture the present, and once a moment has passed undocumented it is impossible to go back and capture it.
3. Things I do not want to photograph are few, but what comes to mind is the idea of being in a situation that I wouldn't want to be in. To take photos of something, you pretty much have to be there, and if was a place or situation that I didn't want to be in, I wouldn't want to be there even to take pictures of it. In general, just things that would make be uncomfortable or scared, or even awkward.
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