2/24/13

Paolo Pellegrin questionable image

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Second Place / POYi
Paolo Pellegrin: "THE CRESCENT. ROCHESTER USA 2012"
  2013 POYI gallery:

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"When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough: Misrepresentation in a World Press and Picture of the Year Winning Photo." Read more by Michael Shaw

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"An investigation into one of Paolo Pellegrin's pictures in an photo essay that recently won honors in both World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International claimed that the image did not show what it claimed to show, it was not taken where it was said that it was taken, and the subject wasn't who the photographer said it was in the contest captions." Read more by Donald Winslow/ NPPA

More discussion here by Max Schulte/ Democrat and Chronicle assistant photo editor