Award-winning photo disputed
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The organizers of the Golden Lens Award, the highest honor in China's photography circle, has launched an investigation into a disputed photo that won a top prize last week.
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The activity in this award-winning photo, taken by Zhang Yi on Oct 24, 2009, is under dispute. The photographer says the man in the white shirt is bargaining with people on the bank about the amount of money he should receive to pull the corpse to the bank. |
The result will be released on Monday, the organizing committee told China Daily on Sunday.
Zhang Yi, the photographer who took the photo, titled it "Holding corpse for money."
It won China's top news photography prize at the Golden Lens Award ceremony last Wednesday in Qingdao, Shandong province.
The picture was taken on Oct 24, 2009, after three college students drowned when they tried to rescue two children who had fallen into the river in Jingzhou, Hubei province.
The three who drowned had joined hands with 11 other students to form a human chain to pull the two children from the turbulent currents. The two children returned to shore safe, but three of the college students lost their lives.
The three students got a grand memorial service later and their story got huge coverage nationwide.
In the award-winning photo, one of the fishermen stands on the boat deck shaking his hand with a defiant look on his face, while the corpse of one of the drowned students floats in the water with one arm fastened to the boat.
In information about the photo, Zhang wrote that the fisherman was trying to get money from people on the shore before he would deliver the dead body.
Zhang, who was a photographer with the local Jianghan Commercial Daily, first published the photo in Shaanxi-based Chinese Business View using the name "Zhen Zhen".
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