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Link 1: https://nppa.org/news/reuters-denies-ethical-allegations-while-some-syria-photographs-still-questioned

Link 2: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2014/03/were-reuters-boy-in-a-syrian-bomb-factory-photos-staged/

Both links address the same of meaning within the picture. I first found Link 1 and then saw another article on it from Link 2. 

MOLHEM BARAKAT, SEPT 7 2013

The above image is from a series of pictures taken by Barakat in Aleppo, Syria. The series of photos, published after the Assad government’s gas attack in Ghouta, depict the heroic story of a 10 year old boy named Issa who works ten hours a day with his father in the Free Syrian Army’s munitions factory. However, reports claim that this may not all be true. We may be being deceived. Looking carefully at the equipment the young boy is dealing with, its weight, extreme risk, his solidarity, the bombs’ arrangement, the make of the weapons,   etc, it seems as if the images are actually staged, and not candid. The way is shown to be hard at work in different poses, as well his dirty clothes, changes the way the image is viewed. The content in the frame changes the meaning of the photo as a whole as viewers believe what they see to be true. 

This photo manipulation does not seem like it was originally meant to be noticed, and thus, could be categorized as deceptive. It makes the viewers think that such acts of cruelty against children do indeed take place in the Syrian army’s factories. However, I think that they can also be viewed with a creative aspect. Even if this specific image may not be real, it still portrays the intense child labour and bad conditions of young children in other places around the world. It makes people look at the photo with sympathy and as a call for action. It makes one consciously think of what’s happening in a new way. 

https://www.readingthepictures.org/2014/03/were-reuters-boy-in-a-syrian-bomb-factory-photos-staged/

Description: People think that “the boy in Syrian bomb factory” was staged. By the looks of the photo, it does looked quite staged. In my opinion, It just looks like the boy was smeared with dirt on his body and ut dirt on his clothes to make it seem likeer has been doing hard work. People ask £where is this workshop with such great lighting?” which they do that a great point in that. Mostly all workshops are dark and dont have great lighting. 

I dont think it was meant to be noticed that it was a munipulating photo because they wanted us to belive that this boy was actually woriking in the workshop for hours and they dont want us to think they are fakers because that is not good publicity for themselves. I think the purpose of the photo was to be deceptive (to make you think something is true when it’s not) because so many people arelready think its not true and there is some signs that is not true so this category fits the best. 

http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/#/rothstien/

Its basically a photo of a steer skull that is placed on a cracked ground. A employee if the federal government was taking the photo of the exact same skull and each of those photos that were taken was named under as the government propaganda. The photographer himself was then talking about his opinion on the photo that he has taken and one thing he had said himself was that it was exercise photograph. The way it is pose is meant to be seen because there is nothing else involved.