woensdag, april 02, 2003
US newspaper The Los Angeles Times has fired a staff photographer for editing together two photos of a British soldier and a crowd of people outside the Iraqi city of Basra to make the scene more dramatic, the newspaper said. In a front-page editor's note, the paper said a photo that appeared on Monday's front page by photographer Brian Walski was actually a digital composition of two photos taken moments apart. The editor's note said Mr Walski, reached on Tuesday by phone in southern Iraq, acknowledged combining the shots.
"Times policy forbid altering the content of news photographs," the editor's note said.
"Because of the violation, Walski, a Times photographer since 1998, has been dismissed from the staff." The paper said that Mr Walski edited the two pictures together to "improve the composition". The pictures showed a British soldier pointing a rifle at an attentive crowd in Basra, including a man clutching a child. Walski covered international stories including the Gulf War, the famine in Somalia, the funeral of Princess Diana and the conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Indian state of Kashmir.
Bron: ABC Australia.
"Times policy forbid altering the content of news photographs," the editor's note said.
"Because of the violation, Walski, a Times photographer since 1998, has been dismissed from the staff." The paper said that Mr Walski edited the two pictures together to "improve the composition". The pictures showed a British soldier pointing a rifle at an attentive crowd in Basra, including a man clutching a child. Walski covered international stories including the Gulf War, the famine in Somalia, the funeral of Princess Diana and the conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Indian state of Kashmir.
Bron: ABC Australia.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 19:36
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