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PHOTOGRAPH BY VICTORIA RAZO
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The photographer’s view: Images and video of U.S. border agents on horseback chasing Haitian immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border (above) last weekend prompted an investigation of the rough treatment. On assignment for Nat Geo, Victoria Razo captured a moment that unleashed widespread criticism. “The agents tried to block them, and then the one agent grabbed a man by his shirt and then kind of swung them around," another photographer who got the image, Paul Ratje, told NPR’s Morning Edition. The U.S. expulsion of thousands of Haitians from that Texas border town to their dangerous, unstable homeland has occurred under an obscure 1944 law not originally intended for that purpose, Nat Geo reports.
Award season: Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf on Thursday won the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting, honoring independent journalists who produce exceptional reporting under the most challenging conditions. Covering the conflict in Gaza for more than a decade, Abu Elouf, at one point without protective gear, strapped a cooking pot to her head as a makeshift helmet, and wore a blue plastic garbage bag with “PRESS” written on it. This Online Journalism Award is named for James Foley, an American journalist who was killed by ISIS in Syria in 2014.
Fake news: A photographer has placed his industry under the microscope by his latest book, set in a North Macedonia town that is a center of fake news production. In the book, Jonas Bendiksen placed AI “people” in the photographs. He then discovered that his doctored images were not questioned by photo colleagues—in fact, he was offered an appearance at a prestigious festival. “If computer-generated fake news pictures are accepted by the curators who have to pick the highlights of all the year’s best photojournalism, it shows that the whole industry is quite vulnerable," Bendiksen tells Magnum Photos.
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