From the international photographer’s forum Lightstalkers.org, photojournalist Bryan Denton, in a message from Beirut Lebanon, describes the most vile sort of photo staging imaginable: Lightstalkers :: Staged Shots from Lebanon? Please comment...

i have been working in lebanon since all this started, and seeing the behavior of many of the lebanese wire service photographers has been a bit unsettling. while hajj has garnered a lot of attention for his doctoring of images digitally, whether guilty or not, i have been witness to the daily practice of directed shots, one case where a group of wire photogs were choreographing the unearthing of bodies, directing emergency workers here and there, asking them to position bodies just so, even remove bodies that have already been put in graves so that they can photograph them in peoples arms. these photographers have come away with powerful shots, that required no manipulation digitally, but instead, manipulation on a human level, and this itself is a bigger ethical problem.

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[Read on.Hat tip: Allahpundit, who has much more here.]

Closely realated: LA Times: Take a Closer Look

Ace: BANG: Photographer Admits To Seeing Lebanese Pose Bodies And Even Dig Bodies Up For Presentation To the Media

So, does that explain the dirty baby with the nice clean pacifier?

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 12, 2006 at 06:01 PM in Bill Faith, Hezbollah, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Judicial Wisdom, Media Perfidy | Permalink

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