Colin crawford los angeles times

For the Record. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Crawford became a photo assignment editor at the Orange County Edition in and director of photography in Orange County in He began working with The Times in as a freelance photographer. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. That will only come in the many sleepless nights that are ahead.

Interviewed by Poynter Online via sat phone from Kuwait City, LA Times staff photographer Don Bartletti recounts seeing his colleague and former co-worker Wednesday afternoon, after Walski returned from the desert. He was sunburned, had not eaten in days, nor slept in 36 hours, his clothes were filthy, his beard — all over the place. And he smelled like a goat. I went from the front line for the greatest newspaper in the world, and now I have nothing.

No cameras, no car, nothing. Bartletti thinks he understands what happened. He was on a head roll, making fantastic images, and it got out of hand. He told me that he did not plan to send the image and was just messing around. With all that he was facing, how did he have the presence of mind? It just got out of hand. On Tuesday at p. Pacific Time, the Los Angeles Times posted an editors note on its website notifying readers about the breach of its photographic ethics policy, the investigation and the subsequent firing of Walski for altering the photo of a British soldier and a group of Iraqi civilians.

All three photos — the two originals and the altered composite — were published by the Times and the Courant on Wednesday. What really differentiates us from other photographers and media is our credibility.

We have a history of getting it right, accurately… Our credibility is all that we have. I can speculate that he has been working day in and day out and may have experienced mental exhaustion, and this may have been just a lapse of judgment.

But when I look at the level of detail, the intricacy shows that this was reflected upon. I must ask myself why he broke the standard.