WORLD PRESS PHOTO REVOKES PRIZE
The World Press Photo contest has revoked its first prize after it found that the winner, Italian photographer Giovanni Troilo, had misrepresented the location of one of the images in his series, according to the New York Times’ Rachel Donadio. In his series “The Dark Heart of Europe,” about Charleroi, Belgium, Troilo included an image of his cousin having sex with a woman in the back of a car, which drew criticism last week for using a remote-control flash.
Troilo, in term, accused World Press Photo—which had come under scrutiny itself for featuring staged photos—of rewriting his original captions, and now looking for “an exit strategy.”
“The bottom line is, what should the public expect?” said the photographer Gary Knight, who’d sat on the World Press Photo jury four times, chairing it twice.
