NY Times pics manipulated
2009-07-09 18:08
New York - The New York Times says it inadvertently published digitally manipulated photographs in the latest issue of its Sunday magazine.
In an editor's note on Thursday, The Times acknowledged that Edgar Martins, a 32-year-old freelance photographer, digitally altered the photos. The shots have been removed from the newspaper's website.
Readers pointed out alterations to the photo essay, titled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age", on the blogs MetaFilter and PDN Pulse.
The Times says it confronted the photographer and found that "most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show."
The editors note says, "Had the editors known that the photographs had been digitally manipulated, they would not have published the picture essay."
- SAPA