Fake photo-journalism or something more?
Paris-Match awarded their annual Grand Prix du Photoreportage Etudiant this week to two French students who submitted a photographic story that apparently presented images documenting the precarious lives of students today and the things they must do to survive.
When the two winners, Guillaume Chauvin and Remi Hubert, both art students at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, stood up at the Sorbonne to claim their trophy and prize money, they announced the true nature of their work. The images were not photojournalism but staged images featuring many of their peers.
Read entire story at Horses Think—Don’t Think, and take a look at the photos.
This is just brilliant. It has showed us clearly what I’ve been trying to explain a few times over the Internet. Truth is what you belive in, what they convince you into. Photojournalism has always been trying to claim “being objective”, but it was always far from that. The only difference between this (fake) and other (real) stories is that here we know what was faked, and how. For other stories we have no clue.
PJ needs this kind of slapping, from time to time. But if we just ignore it, and not learn from it, then it’s useless.
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