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Numbers count when choosing pictures of conflict

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Aug 21st, 2006

The question of proportionality in the use of pictures of the Middle Eastern conflict is addressed by Ian Mayes, the Guardian’s readers’ editor today. He quotes from a reply the paper’s deputy editor made to an accusation of disproportion in the use of pictures which was part of a complaint from the Israeli embassy [...]



Police investigate ‘theft’ of Prince Harry pix

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Aug 18th, 2006

Police in London have started an investigation into how the Sun obtained the pictures of Prince Harry groping a girl which it printed earlier this week, The Independent reports today.
Natalie Pinkham, the woman in the pictures who is now a TV presenter, has spoken to Fulham police to report that several hundred negatives from her [...]



Reuters steps up scrutiny of Middle East pix

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Aug 8th, 2006

By announcing new editing procedures for pictures from the Middle East, Reuters has admitted its own culpability in the distribution of the doctored picture from Beirut.
It is always easy to look at something after the event and say it should have been spotted. But the Photoshopping of the picture of smoke rising over the city [...]



Reuters act on doctored image of war

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Aug 7th, 2006

Images of war have always been controversial but Photoshop has made it so easy to doctor photographs that every picture is scrutinised. Roy Greenslade has an item on the axing of a freelance working for Reuters who added significantly to the density of smoke rising above Beirut. Bloggers have been hard at work examining pictures [...]