An Eye-Opening Look at How Many Conflict Photos Are Staged

Conflict, protest... Sure, no surprise there. People report what they want to report. But equally, demonstrators/fighters re-enact what they want to be seen...

Cheers,

R.
 
saw this somewhere else previously and I see no examples of staged photos at all. Nothing. If I missed it, point one out to me.

fighter posing for cameras ? nothing new and all the photographers can do is either shoot it or ignore it. but it ain't staging by photographers
 
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It's not a question of staging a picture as much as a question of staging the drama when there is none, sometimes provoking it.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a "deluxe" conflict when it comes to the press.
Quite low risks, sexy to the media, and far enough so the little stories can't be checked.
Even without being a journalist, I came to see first hand how a journalist from a very prominent daily french journal can write a total fiction when this is convenient.
In 2005, at "Visa" in Perpignan I met a young french Journalist that came to Israel, and told me that it was quite revelating, a "circus" in his own words, with two soldiers trying to catch three protesters among tens of photographers.

All this could be amusing if it didn't forge opinions, both internal and external to the conflict, and helped creating an ethos that makes almost impossible the compromises necessary to end this nonsense.
 
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