Paris Match fake photo faux pas
Incisive Media Ltd. 2009.
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French magazine Paris Match was the victim of a hoax, as this year's winners of its Photojournalism Award revealed they had faked their images.
Every year Paris Match, which remains one of the last weekly magazines to give predominant space to photography, organises its 'Grand Prix Paris Match du Photoreportage', dedicated to photojournalism projects. This year the award, which comes with EUR5000 cash prize and ten pages in Paris Match, was awarded to two students attending Strasbourg's university of decorative arts.
Guillaume Chauvin and Remi Hubert won with reportage chronicling the harsh poverty some students encounter while studying at university. Their images showed students living in basements or offering sex to pay their rent. Another image portrayed a young man falling asleep in a bus as he embarked on a two-hour commute to his university.
But as the two photographers received the coveted prize, they announced that the images had been faked. 'We thought it was a bit caricatural,' says one of the students to Le Monde newspaper. 'We thought it would never win.'
The contest's terms and conditions don't forbid faked reportages - something likely to change next year. However, Paris Match has withdrawn its cash prize, offering it to the two students' university instead. The weekly magazine, which is now warning readers that the images have been faked, has also announced that next year's cash prize will be increased to EUR10,000 as a result of this year's 'fraud'.
© Incisive Media Ltd. 2009.
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| August 17, 2009 -- 15:59 |
Manny Rocca |
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Sin lugar a dudas es de vital importancia dejar claro que la fotografía documental y por tanto de fotoperiodismo ó periodistica, que no confundamos con bodas, bautizos, ó comuniones. (No por que estas sean menos dignas como documentos, sino por su caracter menos serio y su tratamiento a veces poco formal).
Bajo mi humilde opinión ninguna fotografía habría de ser manipulada ni alterada ó trucada de manera alguna. La etica profesional del fotoperiodista está por encima de cualquier pretesto, en juego la profesión y la credibilidad de la misma.
La técnica fotográfica poseé las herramientas necesarias para el tratamiento ético de una imagen realzando sus cualidades. No busquemos más allá para crear lo inexistente.
Por ello quizás este sea el gran reto que se le plantea al fotoperiodista en el siglo XXI, poder captar imagenes que hagan sentir emociones, sin realizar estas por medio de manipulaciones fraudulentas ó poco éticas. Crear una fotografía que sea documento y a la vez obra de arte, es lo dificil, pero no lo imposible. Por ello todo lo demás es otra cosa y espero que con el tiempo podamos llamar por su nombre a estas.
-No podemos contar mentiras visuales al menos que queramos contar un cuento con fotografías- |
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