There was an uproar a while back about the media in Malaysia altering press pictures to make them more attractive or slightly change the meaning/context by removing/adding people or merging two pictures.

It also happens to big shot AP photographers and many other press agencies, there is a full gallery that shows the extent of the manipulation and the stories surrounding them. And it’s been happening for a long time.

Like this for example:

Trotsky…now you see him, now you don’t.

And this LA Times pictures which turned out to be a composite of two pictures to ‘improve the composition’.

In most of these cases the photographers were fired. I believe this is rightly so, in the case of media photography or photojournalism, you are taking the scene, the reality, what occurred, it’s not down to artistic interpretation or manipulation.

Source: News.com

I discovered this very interesting blog by a lady in London that does photojournalism style shoots of strippers in London.

Are Leopards An Endangered Specie?

Her name is Gail Orenstein and she really keeps it on the ground, her pictures are gritty and sometimes moving as she depicts the lives of Strippers in the underground world of the pseudo sex trade in London.

Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian

You can visit the blog here:

http://gophotosthenakedtruth.blogspot.com/

Sadly it hasn’t been updated for a while.

Her normal site is here:

http://gophotosblog.blogspot.com/

She shoots with a Nikon D50 as well, so it shows equipment is not all.

Both of her sites are not safe for work of course, so be warned.