Is Adnan Hajj (reuters photographer) two people?

The Jawa Report ^ | August 8,2006

[AmericanMade1776]

July 23 2006 Reuters Adnan Hajj

July 22,2006 Reuters Issam Kobeisi

[AmericanMade1776]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/08/reuters_adnan_h.html

One of the hottest rumors in the blogosphere today is that the photographer dismissed by Reuters over the weekend for digitally altering photos taken in Lebanon (by "cloning" images into his shots) is still taking pictures for the agency, using another name to hide his true identity

[randog]

I don't think you can use "Bomb Magnet" lady as a basis for the theory. She's on the payroll and working it hard these days.

[AmericanMade1776]

A Lebanese Hizbollah supporter shows the victory sign in southern Beirut, July 21, 2006. (Issam Kobeisi/Reuters)


http://news.yahoo.com/s/060721/photos_lf/2006_07_21t112535_450x315_us_mideast_lebanon_fun

[coloradan]

No, the same lady might have been photographed by two different people.

[Doogle]

...and I thought three different kinds of identity proof to get license renewed was a pain....this clown can probably produce 27 with his six names....but al Reuters has hundreds like him....sorta like day laborers....got a camera?...want a couple of ????? ....got a photo of your wife?...wanna buy one?

Doogle

[AmericanMade1776]

Post 3....Reuters photo by Kobeisi purged from Reuters

[CheneyChick]

Definitely an "A List" actress....

[AmericanMade1776]

I really enjoyed how Michelle Malkin has exposed the smelly garbage fire on the cover of U.S. Today http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005687.htm

[AmericanMade1776]

note the old tires burning in the background on the garbage pile...no wonder the smoke is so black.

[dennisw]

Adnan Hajj got around so much he was almost in two places at the same time. Speculation has always been that a number of Arab-Muslim photographers were submitting fauxtos under the Adnan Hajj name

[AmericanMade1776]

dennisw wrote: Adnan Hajj got around so much he was almost in two places at the same time. Speculation has always been that a number of Arab-Muslim photographers were submitting fauxtos under the Adnan Hajj name

wowsie.....wowsie....the plot thickens

[bert]

......the same lady might have been photographed by two different people.......

Very true.... recall the photos of the journalist herd shown at the GHM events. Since the events are staged, there should be many similar photos.

[BaBaStooey]

As I said in a previous thread, "Is this the standard 'I lost my house pose' in Lebanon?"

So many of these pictures coming from Lebanon are posed when the photographer, the person being photographed (whether it be "Lost My House Lady" or "Green Helmet Dude"), and the Hezbos would prefer that you view them as candid.

There is a big time propoganda effort on the part of the Hezbos. All information and analysis concerning the current situation in Lebanon must be taken with a grain of salt. You must ask yourself, "Am I being tricked?" And when you hear analysis of the situation, you must ask yourself, "Are they being tricked?"

[AmericanMade1776]

bert wrote: ......the same lady might have been photographed by two different people....... Very true.... recall the photos of the journalist herd shown at the GHM events. Since the events are staged, there should be many similar photos.

I get it ...a staged event , where there are more than one photographer taking a picture of the same staged event...like this one

[TaxRelief]

Some of the loose stringers have alter egos "Issam Kobeisy" fills in for Adnan Hajj. (And Reuters is keeping him on staff to promote more "fauxtography")

A Lebanese civil defence worker removes the body of a toddler from the wreckage of a building August 8, 2006 that was hit by an Israeli raid in Beirut. The attack which took place yesterday on Chiyah, a residential neighbourhood in Beirut, killed 13 people and wounded dozens according to police. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisy (LEBANON)

(HORRID GASH/NO BLOOD-at least they've started plastering the bodies in dust more evenly)

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Apparently, others have noticed the similarities in the two photographers' work. The Jawa Report cites these two "different" images by the two different photographers:

A Lebanese woman cries as she carries belongings from her home which was hit by an Israeli air strike in south Beirut July 23, 2006. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj (LEBANON)



A Lebanese woman cries as she carries belongings she founded in the wreckage of her home that was targeted by the Israeli air strikes,in southern Beirut July 23, 2006. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisi (LEBANON)

Awe heck, maybe it's just a typo...