Tonight, spurred by a tweet I was sending along, I took a second look at AP for more details on this 1991 photo, wrongly claimed to be from over the weekend and later debunked as Photoshopped. There were some questions as to why a photo of this nature would be manipulated, and I think I have an answer. I went back to the link I posted yesterday and noticed the AP link was now broken. Weird, I thought — it worked fine yesterday. So then, I did a fresh search and found this photo, which is nearly the same as the one In Focus ran in December. I did a compare and contrast and noticed a red blotch that wasn’t there before. And a different date on the photo — March 19, 1991, not March 10. I compared it with the photo from In Focus, and there was some definite photo manipulation going on — see the bottom four images. However, I can firmly say that the AP photo I downloaded on Sunday did not have this blotch — so The Atlantic is in the clear, this is all AP. The photo that was manipulated appears to have been removed from the archives and replaced with one that hasn’t. In the end, it’s not full deception, but an attempt at cleaning up imperfection. — Ernie @ SFB
Video of photojournalist Jerry Nelson being arrested Saturday, Feb 4, at Occupy DC as the camp was being dismantled. The officer says he was identified as someone who had assaulted another Occupier. In my discussions with occupiers and local journalists in DC, many knew Nelson and spoke highly of him.
See a full list of journalists arrested at Occupy events nationwide.
Mr. Nelson describes himself this way on his Huffington Post bio: “Jerry Nelson is a nationally recognized photojournalist. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publicaitons [sic] and news outlets including USAToday, CNN, Upsurge, CBS, Dream Row, Earthwalkers and others. He photographs and licenses images for all manner of commercial and editorial use as well as selling through this website. When not traveling, he is available for portraits, events and concerts.”
His webpage is: http://www.journeyamerica.org
Didn’t see anything like this when I was there, in terms of people getting arrested, but I could conceive this based on what I saw. Why did this guy get arrested? He doesn’t appear to be dangerous.
On the top is a photo of a snowy egret trying to nom on a great egret’s recent grab — a frog. To the right of it is a photo taken moments later that shows the frog in a much better angle. Unfortunate they both couldn’t be in the same shot, right? Apparently photographer Bryan Patrick thought the same thing, because he allegedly merged the two photos together into one. Problem, is, a reader caught the Photoshop job, and now Patrick is out of a job this morning. “After The Bee published a correction and apology online Wednesday and in print Thursday,” the paper wrote in an apology this morning, “editors reviewed a selection of Patrick’s work and found two additional digital alterations that violate The Bee’s standards.” Patrick did a very bad no-no for photojournalism. (top photos from The Sacramento Bee; newspaper photo from KXTV)
These are the Serbian warlord Arkan’s men. They’ve just executed these Muslim civilians – a butcher, his wife and sister-in-law; the start of what became known as ethnic cleansing.
Totally recommend clicking the link. It’s a piece where photojournalists explain what they went through to get key shots. (Note: Graphic imagery, some of it worse than this.)
The photos Chris Hondros published just today are as harrowing as the story that took his life. Fires. Men with guns. Darkened stairwells. These are the stories that he fought to tell the public. And these stories were made all the more vital with his visuals.
Thank you.
This. Thank you so much. These photos and stories tell us so many things we wouldn’t know otherwise.
UPDATE: We now live in an era where we identify those killed by their Twitter handle. Our best wishes to the families of Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros and Guy Martin, and a hand held tightly for Hondros and Martin.
DEADFIELD A farmer walked amid desiccated crops in Shandong Province, China, Thursday. A lasting drought is affecting crops in Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. (Photo: Wu Hong / EPA via the Wall St. Journal)
A sad, great photo.
Sometimes, the right lens and right angle can make devastation seem beautiful.
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