Staging scenes is considered a big no-no in photojournalism, but that’s what one award-winning photojournalist was apparently caught doing at a memorial after the Brussels terrorist attacks.
Photographer James Pomerantz was watching a Fox News broadcast from the Place de la Bourse in Brussels when he noticed something strange going on in the background. Here’s the clip:
“Can’t help but notice the photographer posing the young girl,” Pomerantz writes after sharing the clip on Facebook. “I wonder where the photos will wind up.”
It turns out the photojournalist caught on camera was Khaled Al Sabbah, whose Instagram bio reads: “Photojornalist around the world. 5 years in Press Photo.”
His photo of the girl was briefly posted to his Instagram account with the caption “Brussels today” before quickly being taken down, presumably in response to numerous photographers speaking out against the apparent staging.
A number of other photos from the scene of the memorial are still up on Al Sabbah’s account:
Al Sabbah has won awards for his photojournalism, including a 1st prize award and $15,000 earlier this month in the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) award in Dubai for his photo of a father holding his dead son in Palestine.
We’ve reached out to Al Sabbah for comment, but he has not yet returned our request.
from PetaPixel http://petapixel.com/2016/03/24/photojournalist-caught-posing-girl-brussels-memorial/
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