AP Severs Ties With Photographer Who Altered Work

The Associated Press ^ | Wednesday, January 22, 2014

[SunkenCiv]

> Narciso Contreras recently told its editors that he manipulated a digital picture of a Syrian rebel fighter taken last September, using software to remove a colleague’s video camera from the lower left corner of the frame.

That’s an interesting change of policy at AP, eh? This alteration gets the “who gives a ####” award. Thanks kristinn.

[SZonian]

Why is grandpa and grandma’s heads practically washed out because of lighting, but his isn’t?

There’s just something very odd about that photo...

[COBOL2Java]

Remember these?

The Adnan Hajj photographs controversy (also called Reutersgate) involves digitally manipulated photographs taken by Adnan Hajj, a Lebanese freelance photographer based in the Middle East, who had worked for Reuters over a period of more than ten years. Hajj's photographs were presented as part of Reuters' news coverage of the 2006 Israel–Lebanon conflict, but Reuters has admitted that at least two were significantly altered before being published.

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The second manipulated image was reported by the pseudonymous blogger "Dr. Rusty Shackleford" on his blog "the Jawa Report". Reuters captioned it as showing an Israeli F-16 fighter jet firing ground-attack missiles "during an air strike on Nabatiyeh", but the F-16 was actually deploying one defensive flare, and the original photograph showed only one flare. The photo had been doctored to increase the number of flares falling from the F-16 from one to three, and misidentified them as missiles.