Thursday, February 28, 2013

A Prize-Winning Ethics Lesson?

A dramatic image of a man described as a former Marine sniper clutching a shotgun in the Crescent — a rough part of Rochester — helped the Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin win honors as Freelance Photographer of the Year from POYi.
Except the man in the photo, Shane Keller, was never a sniper, but a former combat photographer. And he lives in a part of Rochester where he says he can go to sleep at night with his doors unlocked.
Read more at the New York Times LENS blog