Associated Press photographer`s video shows `travel photographers` staging photos
(Digital Photography Review)

Last month, Associated Press photographer A. M. Ahad shared a video on Facebook that shows something disappointing... if not terribly surprising. His video, captured at a train station in Bangladesh, shows photographers shooting staged images of a boy who is posing out a train window as if in prayer. Ahad criticized the photographers` actions, saying such staging is used in an effort to capture award-winning images at the expense of professional etiquette. Speaking with PetaPixel, Ahad explained that a large number of camera-wielding tourists show up for Eid al-Adha and Bishwa Ijtema to snap images that are often posed: `They are all around making images and ruining things for professional photographers.` `Bangladesh is not for people like this who came to ruin professional photographers etiquette for the sake of winning medal,` Ahad said in the Facebook post that accompanies the video, expressing frustration that photographers who are staging scenes are getting in the way of actual professionals. `Stop telling us that you are foreign media covering the congregation when you have no proof to show us [...] just stay home, for goodness sake.`