Everything that's wrong with Kate Middleton's doctored photo

Taking advantage of the celebration of Mother's Day in the United Kingdom, the Princess of Wales, on Sunday, posted a photo with her children on social media. Kate Middleton He had disappeared from the public arena since last January, after undergoing abdominal surgery. Agencies quickly noticed the image and distributed it through their servers.

After four hours of the most important of them, Getty, AFP, Associated Press, Reuters, They decided to eliminate him from your files. Princess Charlotte's missing sleeve piece and overlapping skirt, the blurring of Prince Louis' hand, and Middleton's askew zipper all attest to the manipulation of the image.

Cut and paste, blur mask, a crude amateur touch that doesn't go into detail with an air of naivety. Especially knowing that that photo will spread around the world, and will be examined by millions of eyes.

In view of this uproar, Kate Middleton herself issued a statement in which she apologized through her social media account. I hope everyone who celebrated it has a happy Mother’s Day. Like many amateur photographers, I sometimes experiment with editing.'

The increasingly widespread practice of monarchies, political regimes, and ideologies of all kinds, of disseminating official photos and videos, leads us to…Sweet, tolerant and biased versions From the news. Use or disable the meaning of images as appropriate. The distinction between reality and fiction becomes an exercise of faith on the part of citizens, which leads at least to suspicion of the existence of covert censorship.

A photojournalistic photo intended to inform cannot be an artistic Photoshop experiment, published by an amateur photographer. It requires a critical and independent interpretation of events occurring on camera.

The photojournalist, the journalist, must be present in the place where the news is produced to be the architect of the explanation, and to deal with what is real and its reality. The lack of press on the princess's status and the publication of the manipulated photo casts a shadow of doubt. Selfies look great in the family album, where contented photos and tricks always get a break.