“With digital technology came digital photo manipulation. While the tenets of ethical news photography still held, there were notable breaches.” (Bersak 2006). The availability of new editing tools in the new century changed photojournalism radically. One of the most important issues in this era is to ensure that the photographs that are shown to the public are truthful, but photographic manipulation questions both ethics and repercussions of this type of editing in the field of photojournalism.
One of the most well known cases of digital manipulation in documentary photography is the one by Brian Walski on March 30, 2003. That day, Walski had taken around 300 photographs of the fighting in Iraq, the civilians, and the British troops. He thought