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Photographer admits faking widely published image

February 29, 2008 – 12:07 pm

Roy Greenslade has the background on the above image:
This award-winning photograph, showing a herd of endangered Tibetan antelopes apparently undisturbed by a passing train on the controversial Qinghai-Tibet railway, has been exposed as a fake. The image was widely hailed in China as a symbol of harmonious co-existence between man and nature. But photographer Liu [...]

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