Photo not Authentic - taken outside of Jamaica

Yesterday, the Jamaica Star published a story about a photo that the police had in their possession. For fear of a lawsuit, I will not publish the photo here or provide a link to the article. In it, a few persons appear. However of interest are two persons; one with the likeness to a DJ called Vibz Kartel and the other with the likeness to one called Aidonia.

The police have said they which to question the men, as they would like to know some more about the photo. Simple enough,the picture could be authentic, a genuine true snapshot of time or not authentic, as in this age of computer graphics it is pretty straightforward in the hands of a intermediate graphic designer for images to be doctored. So this is an interesting piece of news and it is only reasonable that we find out more.

Today, we hear of threats to sue the Star for the publication of the photo. The lawyer representing the artistes, whose likeness appear in the photo, utters a very interesting statement. Here I quote a report from the Radio Jamaica web site but I heard the statement myself in a news clip.(

"According to Mrs. Neita-Robertson, the photos were not taken in Jamaica and do not appear to be authentic. "

Can someone please explain this. The photos, which suggest that there was or is more than one photo. Secondly the photos were taken outside of Jamaica since they were not taken inside of Jamaica.

The big question then is how can images that were captured by a camera, at a location outside of Jamaica, that at a point were authentic, having not been tampered with, become not authentic?

RJR report
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/5332/26/

Comments

Anonymous said…
Honestly the argument that the photos cant be real because they appear to be taken outside of Jamaica is weak at best, I see no statue of liberty, no yellow cab not even the hint of a patriotically placed American flag to even suggest this claim. And come on, the classic "it wasnt me" argument...huh? And sueing the press for placing the image in their article seems like a misguided effort to cry foul. At the end of the day the paper is merely reporting on findings and reading the article the clear writing style was one of objectivity and non-bias. Djs always feel they should bully the media when they should be really considering themselves with "how to get out of this one now" - silly djs
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