Looks like freelance photographer Adnan Hajj will have to find another career after being outed by observant bloggers. In a stunning revelation, bloggers have cited a number of examples where Hajj has not only doctored photos but staged them. When questioned, Hajj defended himself by stating that journalism photography is art and it's up to him to interpret the events that unfold before him. That includes staging photographs and going as far as to doctor them in Photoshop. Kidding... the excuse he used was that he was working under low light conditions while removing dust marks. He's pretty amazing, maybe this should go under the Photoshop blog given that he was able to almost perfectly clone a building and smoke in low light conditions. I guess the monitor he ws using was running on low juice.

10, 20 years ago, people would say photos never lie. Today that statement doesn't hold, but I thought at the very least news photographs would be free of such manipulation. What a sad turn of events, and Hajj isn't the only one to blame, those photo editors should be given their walking papers too. There's plenty of discussion regarding this event in the blogosphere including other examples of Hajj's less than credible photography.