Adnan Hajj’s Secret Identity
Rusty Shackleford provides some rather compelling evidence that renowned PhotoShopper Adnan Hajj is also selling photos to Reuters--still--under the name Issam Kobeisi. It gets much, much better: Hajj and Kobeisi have been selling identical photos to Reuters! Granting that Reuters is a large organization and that oversight over massive streams of digital photos coming in from a war zone ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 9, 2006 11:28
Reuters Purges All 920 Adnan Hajj Photos from Database
Reuters has removed all 920 photos taken by Adnan Hajj from its archives: Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah. Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 7, 2006 13:44
Reuters Recalls Fake Beirut Photo After Exposed by Blogs
Reuters has recalled an "altered" photograph hours after coming under assault from the blogosphere. A Reuters photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has been withdrawn after coming under attack by American web logs. The blogs accused Reuters of distorting the photograph to include more smoke and damage. The photograph showed two very heavy plumes of black smoke billowing from buildings ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 6, 2006 09:15
