9 Examples of Ethical Breaches in Photojournalism
These photojournalist' will never be taken seriously again
Published 9 years ago in Facepalm
These photojournalist' will never be taken seriously again
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The top two photos were combined to create the third photo which was feature on the front page of the NY Times. After viewers commented that individuals in the background seemed to appear more than once, the photographs creator, Brian Walski, admitted to editing the photos together to improve the composition.5
One of the first ever 'conflict photographs' taken by Roger Fenton in 1855, while documenting the Crimean War, shows a road littered in cannonballs. There are two negatives showing this scene, one as you see above and another where the cannonballs lay on the side of the road. Someone moved the cannonballs.