Digitally Altered Images Disqualified From World Press Finalists

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Digitally Altered Images Disqualified From World Press Finalists

For those who are concerned with ethics in photojournalism, the announcement this morning of this year’s World Press Photo winners was much anticipated in light of last year’s controversy over whether 2012 winner Paul Hansen’s top photograph had gone “too

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“There is a first round where basically all we do is get the crap out,” Glaviano told News Photographer magazine today. “Then in the second round of judging, we pick out what’s going to go into the final judging. Before the final round of judging, the photographs are examined in the RAW files. Then after the RAW files are examined and pictures are disqualified, the pictures that remain are the final ones for the final round of judging.”