He admits it. Now, Datta grants TIME his first interview since the scandal broke.
via Time: http://time.com/4766312/souvid-datta/
He now confesses that there are other images from that project that were also altered using post-production techniques, and he says he also “appropriated photos” from colleagues like Daniele Volpe, Hazel Thompson and Raul Irani, and lied in order to conceal those actions
In photographing the women of Bahrain, Hazel Thompson learned that she had to pierce a veil of her own preconceptions.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/finding-a-place-in-bahraini-society/
For her “Measure of a Woman” project, Hazel Thompson spent six months in 2007 and 2008 in Bahrain and Qatar, documenting women’s roles in modern Arab culture. James Estrin interviewed her in New York last week about her experiences in Bahrain.