Link: The Sacramento Bee published a photograph taken during the Galt Winter Bird Festival of a snowy egret grabbing for a frog just caught by a great egret. This week we learned the photograph had been digitally altered by the photographer in violation of our standards
Link: The Sacramento Bee fired longtime photographer Bryan Patrick on Friday for violating the paper’s ethics policy forbidding manipulation of documentary photographs.
Photo Manipulation Scandal Follows Same Old Script | PDNPulse Surely we all know the script by now: A newspaper photographer gets caught manipulating a photo, the paper runs an apology with a statement about the newspaper’s zero-tolerance policy and a notice that the photographer has been fired; a trade organization via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/photo-manipulation-scandal-follows-same-old-course.html The contrarian…
Link: NPPA Today readers of The Bee learned that editors investigating Patrick’s archives found two additional images that had been digitally altered, also a violation of The Bee’s ethics standards
Link: NPPA When published on the Bee’s front page on Sunday as part of a two-picture combo, the images carried a byline for longtime Bee staff photographer Bryan Patrick.
Bryan Patrick picked up another Photographer of the Year trophy the first weekend in April, and a few days later The Bee’s front page reminded us why. Patrick’s photos from the Olympic torch relay and protests in San Francisco on April 9 stood out as they often do: for storytelling and technical excellence, but even…
Congrats to Bryan Patrick for winning the San Francisco Bay Area Photographers Association photog of the year award. Well deserved. The Bee put up a gallery of his portfolio Check it out here.
