‘Ethical lapse’

Late April, Gianmarco Maraviglia, founder and director of Echo Photojournalism agency, posted on Facebook two of McCurry’s images, an unprocessed one and the same image with two people missing from the scene.

“What he did in Photoshop is totally outside the limit of power in the profession. In my opinion, one cannot move any pixel when it comes to journalistic photographs,” Maraviglia told DW.

Sean D. Elliot, ethics committee chairman of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), said in a statement that McCurry “bears the responsibility to uphold the ethical standards of his peers and the public, who see him as a photojournalist.”

“Any alteration of the journalistic truth of his images, any manipulation of the facts, regardless of how relevant he or others might feel they are to the deeper ‘truth,’ constitutes an ethical lapse,” said Elliot.

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