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Thread #94188   Message #1824742
Posted By: dianavan
01-Sep-06 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: digitally enhanced photojournalism sucks
Subject: RE: BS: digitally enhanced photojournalism sucks
Thanks, Arbiter, I agree.

There used to be a website by Jim Magin (Belfast) who tried to alert the world to digitally enhanced photography as a method of propaganda. The website is gone now and the use of digitally enhanced photos is widespread.

Its time for a law that requires photographers to indicate with a symbol whether or not the photograph has been digitally manipulated.

As a photographer, I use photoshop but I'm not a photojournalist. Digital enhancement is a great artistic tool but it has nothing to do with journalism.