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The New York Times<\/em> has accused a UK-based photographer of digitally manipulating images, forcing it to remove photos from its website after apparent detective work by a member of the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam Gurno was browsing a slideshow of images captured by Bedford-based photographer Edgar Martins that depict abandoned construction projects.<\/p>\n

Gurno claimed that the award-winning photographer had used image manipulation software to ‘mirror’ one side of a house shown in one of the pictures. <\/p>\n

‘At the top there was a tiny bit of wood and it sort of set off an internal alarm. We built our house a few years ago? The angle on it seemed a bit unreal and it kind of made me say “I don’t know, I think these are kind of fake”,’ Gurno is quoted in a blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an Editor’s Note<\/a> (pictured) posted on its website after removing Martins’ photo essay, the New York Times wrote: ‘The introduction said that the photographer, a freelancer? “creates his images with long exposures but without digital manipulation”.<\/p>\n

‘A reader, however, discovered on close examination that one of the pictures was digitally altered, apparently for aesthetic reasons.<\/p>\n

‘Editors later confronted the photographer and determined that most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show.’<\/p>\n

Martins, who is believed to be travelling, could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

NEWS ALERT 14 JULY: Photographer responds to manipulation accusation<\/a><\/p>\n

The images appeared in the New York Times Magazine<\/em> and online.<\/p>\n

The photographer’s work has been exhibited and published worldwide.<\/p>\n

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